"Alright, you bunch of software engineers, go produce an animation"

PRESS THE RED BUTTON TO PLAY THE ANIMATION

Excuse my Engrish as it's not my native language.
Apparently software engineers of my uni are required to learn how to animate, because reasons.

A lil bit of background story:
In near future, self-aware Artificial Intelligent (A.I.) is the next big thing. It is being widely tested on different robot prototype as different form and specification produces different result. Here, Tin is a rather short robot that designed to work in group. They were put in a test chamber to test their expected A.I. behavior, “unity” or “mutualism” if one would call them.

Some Q&As if you bother to read them
1. What software you used?
Blender freestyle for the outline and Flash CS6 to combine/colour/edit/render everything.

2. *Sniff sniff* this smells waaaaay too much like Portal.
Because I'm a huge fan of the series.

3. Duuudddeeeee this is soooo cheesy, and that unnecessary quote at the end? reeaaaalllyy??
I hate to admit this but yes, I cringed 70% of the time while working on this. Consider that I'm self-taught, I'm happy how this thing turn out to be.
About that quote, I just have to shove it in in case my lecturer failed to see the rather obvious point/moral of this story.

4. How long does this took you to make?
Frankly, I have no idea since I have 3 other assignments to work on aside from this animation within the period of 3 months so I lost track of the actual production time.
My guess would be 80-120 hours, with most time spent on colouring/adjusting/tweaking stuff in Flash.

5. What's with the odd/uninspiring title?
As bad as this title sounds, there's actually a few reasons for using it:
i. The little robots are called "tin", due to their appearance resembling very much like a tin can - short, cylinder in shape and and mostly made of tin.
ii. From merriam-webster
tin·ker:
noun
an unskillful mender
That pretty much explains the robot's quality.

Other versions:
Youtube: http://youtu.be/6_bgQR89DkM
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/117372255

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Portal 2 Soundtrack:
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Adobe:
http://offers.adobe.com/en/na/audition/offers/audition_dlc.html
Aqua Grotesque typeface by Laura Pol:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/14884671/AQUA-GROTESQUE-TYPEFACE

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