'Blinky' Short: Don't Buy Your Jerk Kid of the Future a Robot, Okay?
Written, directed and edited by Ruairi Robinson for 45k euro, Blinky is a sharp-looking 12-minute short that stars Where the Wild Things Are's Max Records as an petulant, spoiled child whose relationship with an indentured companion robot deteriorates in some fairly surprising ways. Director Robinson also did all the 3D robot modeling and provided the voice for Blinky, and after seeing the results, I think you'll agree he should be respectively commended and sued by Dave Coulier for theft of riotous Jackalope voice.
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