Friday 21 June 2013

Early face test



This is an early test we made while refining the design of the robot's face. It's funny watching it now as this seems so gormless and child-like. We also decided that the mouth was moving far too much - your eye unnaturally gravitates towards it.

While there's plenty of real-life robots with similarly manga-ised faces, we wanted our design to be more considered. Our criteria was: it should be expressionless - it does not have emotions nor opinion. It should be friendly and approachable, but should also have the sincerity to deliver bad news.

This clip is also interesting as it features the voice of Hayley Marie-Axe, who was our outstanding stand-in for the Dr. Easy on the shoot. Hayley would act out the actions and lines of the robots, providing Tom with a focus, and providing us with invaluable animation timing reference and the temp vocal track heard here.

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