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All I can think of is The Iron Giant, but that's probably not it.
Otherwise known as [Smashing Melons 42].
Robots?
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Nope I watched both and neither of them is the one I saw. I think this show had minimal or no dialogue, focusing on the character's actions. I'm pretty convinced this was made to show how much impact High-Def television can make on the viewers. You could actually feel the emotion the robot felt despite it's lacking of a face (at least I think it didn't have any facial features; I recall it looked just like an astronaut's helmet with the visor down). It may just be a "commercial," but gosh, I'd love to see it again. Any links would be very much appreciated! Thanks guys for the brainstorm!
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You might try searching youtube for "girl robot short" or something like that. If it's not a feature film it may be an animated short posted on youtube.
Yeah I tried that and so far no such luck.
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Sounds like it was inspired by the Robot Carnival anime from the late 80's. I saw it when the Sci-Fi (Sy Fy now) channel used to show anime on Saturday mornings.
Looking at the description, Robot Carnival's themes are a little too dark for what I saw in the store. Anyways you piqued my curiosity about that show. ;)
Ok, a follow up. I got to see another episode(?) apparently featuring the same characters, namely the giant robot and the girl. Again they get to play together. There's one scene where the robot holds that little ornament thing with the rotating figurine of a ballerina on top that plays music. Another notable character is a blond haired guy wearing an astronaut-like outfit, without the helmet. The setting is a futuristic city, maybe Tokyo or somewhere in America. I think a parade is taking place where the girl and robot are riding this flying yacht/ship thing. For some reason it catches fire and the robot has the girl overboard into the street, where the blond guy catches her. Both guy and girl look up at the robot who couldn't escape, but stands on the burning craft satisfied that the girl is safe. Apparently it has no dialogue, it's completely CGI, and this one is made for 3D. The robot definitely reminds me of that fat nanobot in Jimmy Neutron, is mainly orange with a horizontal yellow stripe around the torso. The girl is like a grown up Boo from Monsters Inc.
Television shops normally show recently released to DVD shiny movies and have them play on repeat, though I haven't been able to find anything like a silent CGI film. Of course it could be a show but silent shows never work too well when marketing.
I really can't find anything. When did you see this? Try and work out a date, though in all fairness they turn off the sound when they show films on displays, certain it was silent?
PS. If it's currently being played there, go in and ask.
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I saw each on different times and on different places I passed by, but I saw them just this year. The first one was a number of months ago and the other is just about last week. Unfortunately the attendant of the recent shop had no idea what the shows they, um, show on their screens. They feel like shorts, and if there ever was some dialogue, it looks pretty minimal. I didn't get to see their mouths move to form complex words and you get to see that the real focus is on actions made by the characters, sort of like Tom and Jerry or Big Buck Bunny and some other CGI shorts. I have a feeling they're made simply for the demonstration of High Definition TV. (The recent one was set for 3D; you get to see some double-vision on the screen.) Yeah, I'm still on the lookout for some stores to play either of them again.
I know what you mean about the expression through actions, I was just making sure.
I've found a lot of ... everything... but none match what you've described. Hmm... Not sure where else I can look. I did find this Robot Film Festival (film list is here
) so it could be one of those.
That attendant wasn't helpful at all. I work in retail and that makes me grumpy. Ah well, you could go there and ask a supervisor/manager if they have a list of what DVDs they're showing... *ponders*
Your efforts and insights are very much appreciated. :) Yeah in our country those in official stores strictly focus on the product and not what is in the demonstration; unless it's something in their interest, like if the music being played is something they know, etc. I'll have more luck with small electronic shops with shop owners who have a passion for the stuff they sell. The search goes on....
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It's a CGI work that was one of the sequences being shown on HD TV on display. I barely saw the ending as I was passing by a store. The setting seems to be in a huge hi tech dome. The main characters of the story seem to be a gentle giant robot, who sort of reminds me of the fat nanobot in Jimmy Neutron (looks like a fat astronaut) and a little girl(?). I assume the girl and the robot are having some fun when (this is the part I saw) some adults come rushing inside the dome and carry the girl out. Seemed to me that the girl wasn't supposed to be there and she met this nice robot, and the panicking adults pulled her from a "dangerous (as in factory-dangerous) place." The last part shows the girl looking over the shoulder of the adult carrying her at the dumbfounded giant robot being left behind, who is sadly waving goodbye at her. No, wait. I think the confused robot impulsively reached his hand out to her. The robot and the dome, as I recall, seemed to be very colorful as they were covered by a patchwork of metal plates of different colors. This work looked so well-done that Pixar came to mind, but I don't know of any Pixar shorts like this. This may be an original CGI work intentionally done for display on LCD/HD TV. Anyone know of this?
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