"Show-Me-Bot" is a series of very quick 10-15 second shorts on Noggin targeted to very young kids. Each episode has Show-Me-Bot showing a different emotion in a humorous and exaggerated way.
My animation can be seen in the “Upset”, “Curious”, “Angry”, “Nervous”, and “Brave”. Ariel Paxton animated the other 5 segments. The animation in Harmony was a mix of using a rig and frame-by-frame animation (for stuff like the face, smoke, etc.)
I had the opportunity to pitch a series of micro-shorts for Noggin that were meant to teach words of a certain theme. (For this, I chose “emotions”.) The original idea was a Director trying to film a movie using an unnamed robot “actor”, with each scene showing a different emotion. The robot is a massive over-actor though, and would inadvertently cause mayhem on the set because of it. Eventually for production purposes, we had to drop the director character and movie set premise, but the general humor remained the same.
This project was a fun one to work on since I got to come up with the different premises, storyboard, animate, and do the final sound editing.
Check out some of my storyboards below:
And just for fun, here are some very early drawings I made for the robot and the aforementioned movie director, before the final art was created.
