Wow. designing a robot. sounds easy. Some wires a few hydraulics a cool metal shader or something. nope. Making a robot the audience can identify with is difficult. the robot needs to have a conceivable soul or human aspect that can be animated and controlled to express emotions.
Without emotion and insight into the character I have found that the audience will not be able to connect with the character and therefore not care about the story. It seems that the design of a robot is very much the design of how we want to portray our ideal animated humans.
With this in mind; I have stylised my robot and his emotions and temperament on a human character. -Groundskeeper Willie (The Simpson's).
