“The mate-serving robot” (“El robot cebamates,” for those who speak spanish) is a 2′ piece of animation I worked for back in 2006. I wrote about it before, but now it has finally been posted online! It’s on my teacher/tutor’s site, so I invite you all to take a look at it. I designed the robot itself for this short (so, yeah, other people did the actual work!).

It won’t make a whole lot of sense if you don’t understand spanish, though it doesn’t make that much sense in spanish either, as it was part of an experiment where a famous musician played songs composed by children, and the animation just sort of follow the music. It’s about a robot with a rather bland purpose for existing (serving mate – a tea-like beverage), who happens to excel at a number of things (singing and playing instruments, mostly). He sort of freaks people out. And, hum, I guess that’s it. Look, I don’t think the kids who wrote this where even in grade school – let’s see you do better!

Here, since I didn’t keep the originals, I’ll treat you to a crappy photo of photocopies of some of them, which is so many steps removed from the actual drawings that I lost count.

Yes, it is a 2-minutes DVD

Anyways, enjoy, I guess?