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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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In "The Honking" they went all bloodshot. I don't understand that, anyone have a logical reason other than wizard?
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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That's my vote
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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They pop out of his head when he's aroused.
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BrainSluggo
Starship Captain
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« Reply #12 on: 04-24-2002 02:32 »
« Last Edit on: 04-24-2002 02:32 »
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Originally posted by Xenomorph: Then you might as well remove this forum. Sorries, I was feeling extra-bitchitudinal this morning. Anyway, because there are robots, but few or no androids despite the fact that the technology obviously exists to make them, there must be some social "issue" with robots being too lifelike/humanlike. However, people still like to relate to things that they interact with--especially things that talk back, and threaten and rob them. Bender's eyes appear to be simple frosted glass tubes at times, but obviously they must contain focusing devices, or else they wouldn't require "extension" to see better. However, the pupils and "lids" which give Bender his "expressions" are probably just images for the sake of human-robot interaction. The "lids" serve no other purpose; he has the shield that comes down when he goes offline. The "lids" also do not appear when the entire eye is removed, so they're either internally-projected within the eye or part of that "black area" inside his visor. Howzdat?
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foxvomit
Crustacean
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Matt Groening uses square pupils for robots so they don't appear human.
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Citizen77
Crustacean
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Oh really foxvomit? Look at Calculon's Eyes. No square pupils there.
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BrainSluggo
Starship Captain
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That's funny--I just took a peek at the frame grabs from That's Lobstertainment over at CGEF and they look pretty square to me.
Sometimes the animators drew the pupils big--sometimes freaking HUGE--and sometimes perfectly square, and sometimes as a semi-rounded square like a boullion cube--but Calculon, being a minor character, doesn't get half as many close-ups as Bender, and at a distance it's hard to tell...
If Calculon's pupes WERE round, I would chalk it up to cosmetic robo-surgery, or an upcoming storyline:
"Lies! All lies! I...was human once. As human as you, Fry...or you, Leela...or--well, more than you, Bender..." --Calculon in The Honking II: I Was A Teen-Age Human!
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