I really liked this a lot. It took me a while to understand the theme of the story, but made more sense at the end. The art was spectacular, the animation, story and sound effects were all great. I don't really understand why the original robot decided to destroy itself at the end. It makes sense that it would want to do it to aid progression in this machine learning environment. I don't think he would do it because he has free will, and might choose not to throw himself away after climbing te whole way up the shaft. Good animation

pretty cool

That was fantastic! Can you tell me how did you integrate the 2D animation with the 3D work done in Maya? Did you build the background in Maya and then traced everything in ToonBoom? It looks amazing, thank you for posting. You told a powerful story without a single word of dialogue.

Tragic story, great animation.

Awesomesauce!
I really like those 'animated' textures, especially when the robot 'shakes', it's a pretty unique blend of techniques which somehow integrates pretty well in this factory scenario.
I also saw 'smiles' on their faces, even if that was just the pattern on their heads, huh.