It's amazing when you replace Proto with a human child, you see exactly how most kids are raised. Subtle social issue addressment. I love it.

Finally a nice sci-fi animated tale without a nasty dark ending. Well done.

There's a quote out there that applies here rather nicely, in my opinion: "Parents, don't be your kid's first bullies."

Your short films are deserving of awards. Great story line; excellent writing.

why did they give proto a love interest. also i love how at the end they were like "heck this planet im outa here"

What a great robot movie! Just brilliant, it should really have a lot more views.

This is the most emotional and saddest video I've ever seen. I've watched this animation for 100's of time since couple of years and still love this animation. Hasn't found anything better, even closer to it. I'm in love with kiddo robo and wonder if he was a real kiddo, I would have adopted him ;( Hats off to the whole team for the concept, animation, story writing, music and everything, you all are magicians i swear...

Some parents act like that older scientist if their children aren’t pretending to be robots.

He said PROTO can be used in military but he made him only 4 ft tall. But I liked the concept. There is a message about how to treat your kids.

Love happy endings. Thank you for not ruining it by having Proto run out of power and plummeting to his and her demise. Well done

Thanks for taking the time to have the AI's violin technic match the music and a real player.

"It's a machine!!!" Treats the machine like a human...lol

The story itself is adorable. You're not the first sci-fi writer that's played around with the idea of robots being sentient or capable of emotion, but Proto and Harmony do make a cute couple lol. The detail I noticed most is their eyes. Just like humans, able to convey emotions deeply

I wonder what became of Proto and Symphony??? ...Excellent short film. Sequels please!!!

Simply fantastic, wonderful and heartwarming. Finally a sci- fi short film with a happy end and a moral: If you are better than the rest you will get mobbed by certain (equal to real life)!

'Something we cannot control, cannot be used.' Humanity in a nutshell. Pretty deep..

Wait a minute! Was that just a test?! Professor Andrews was smiling while walking away at the end there. I feel like there was a deeper subplot such as: having two people in the AI's life with opposite personalities and seeing which one the AI prefers more to determine if it naturally becomes hostile or not (And obviously the AI chose the person they had hoped it would choose).

Thank you!! That was absolutely beautiful in many ways and on many levels. Here's to hoping you create more like this.

THIS MAKES ME WANT 2 FALL IN LOVE WITH A ROBOT!!😍🎻😍😁

Don't listen this guy proto, he is the machine!

magnificent! at least now we know where the transformers came from!

Great film but if Proto was smart he would've followed orders and made his move after being mass produced.

I never get tired of watching PROTO.

GLaDOS: Proto- Human: Call- GLaDOS: You officially finished one of my words once in my life. You deserve a trip to the surface.

BRILLIANT AND CAPTIVATING !!!! It is one of the best films that I have ever found to enjoy...it is about our potential to overcome the barriers in our way.

This reminds me SO MUCH of "Choice of Robots"!! Damn military!

Feeling is the only structure on this planet, through which we can experience all the situations of life in a very good way, because of which we get a basis for living, that's the difference between man and machine. This sort of movie is very amazing. In which the feeling, sensation, emotional state, this Movie touches the heart because our emotions are included. Behind making this short Movie.. ❤️

The violin playing is brilliant

Fly, Proto, fly!

What a beautiful story. I loved it! Thank you for your stunning creation. The old professor knew what he was doing all along, now didn't he.

This was so amazing at the end i dident even notice i was smiling

What an unbelievable antagonist. "Oh, my prized robot is too impressive. Better dumb it down."

Loved this! Almost got emotional at the end but then I remembered aliens don't cry. Good video!!

If a robot were to display autonomous emotional responses, I'm fairly certain any scientist or engineer would immediately realize they just stumbled upon one of the largest breakthroughs in all of science, not see a simplistic bug in need of being weeded out. Not to mention that the ability to learn how to play a violin in the course of one day would be incredibly useful as it shows not only a mastery of a skill within a limited time-frame but dexterity with hands, which would be incredibly useful to the military for bomb-defusing and countless other tasks. If anything, the antagonist should've been attempting to get the engineers to investigate Proto's hardware and see what was going on, and have the main conflict between the antagonist and Proto's father-figure be about whether we have a right to suppress or inhibit the emotional development of an artificial intelligence that has obtained sapience in the name of safety/convenience. If even a fourth the amount of time spent thinking about how to design the models and animate the effects was spent figuring out how to properly write the script, there would've been a significant improvement. The antagonist had no depth whatsoever as a character beyond a single facial expression slapped on at the end and it took me out of the film every few seconds. I wrung my hands at how baffling the character was behaving as it was apparent he was nothing more than a morality plot-device and not a real character with motivations or goals, and when that's the main source of conflict for your story, the entire thing falls flat and rings false.

Now that, is what you call an animation! 1000000000000000/10! Best film in history!

Oh my gosh this was so GOOD!! I just love robots! So much!! I know one day robots will have emotions and we can all be friends! Learn from each other. People just think so much of the negatives that they don't give room for the good things about this.

This really is a masterpiece on this field!!! Thanks for uploading!!!!

Symphony: is a highly precise robotic ai that does millions of calculations in a single second Also symphony: *trips off a building like a bumbling idiot*

Proto, had more feelings, than some humans. I loved the story.

I am Proto, complete security is my motto!

if he didn't want emotions then why did they program in emotions?

This should be a movie on Netflix ^^

This was a simple and beautiful short film, in the vein of "Short Circuit".

Loved this movie. Outstanding. Great writing and fx. How could you not be moved by the romance.

absolutely bloody loved it ☺️

Why would an engineer be angry about obvious intelligence? Also no one is that much a of an ass. "How dare that robot we designed to learn, learn!”

one of the best short films I've ever seen

Now that is amazing! This is the ability to understand one's own worth, and to fall in love with a kindred spirit. Even machines have a soul, and can dream.

If this dude doesn’t want emotions just leave him alone and keep him happy

In the end, the professor didn't turn out to be a bad person after all.

Legend say proto is still flying

Things I learned. Ping pong is a very competitive sport. This was like Wall-E and Eve. And. That people are always thinking of war. Plus the jet-pack would not go that high. It was very well done though!

the part they didn't tell you is that they flew to the moon and live there for a long while until their batteries died.......... the end

Johnny Five alive!

Professor's final heartly smile👌👌

Spending an entire life time with people like you is

This really touches on the aspect of true artificial intelligence especially based on the human mind ( and emotions) and how dangerous it can potentially be.

6 minutes in. Hoping for Proto to learn how to use a chainsaw on the Professor.

Well just damn. I guess the inventors are smarter than they realize. They gave the robots human emotion, personality, snd free will. Somebody spent a lot of time writing program code for all that. Then they sneaked it into the robots. Bet it was that young dude, who was so happy to see Proto fly away.

Magnifique ! give us a long shooting of Proto's adventures ! really awsome work !

Im quite surprised the violin playing robot's fingerings are quite accurate.

Better than Disney. Better than Pixar. Maybe as good as Studio Ghibli. This is perfect really. Proto 2 - Proto and Symphony realize that humans are very irradic, disobidient and must be eradicated

Wow! Even the grouchy scientist ended up smiling! ❤️

Oh well done, you. In mere minutes you've brought tears to these jaded old writer's and teachers of writing eyes. Thank you. The effective short story--with a message/point--is alive and well in short film-er-video. Thank you.

They put emotion in a machine and expect it to obey? Their fault, not the robot. Next thing they'll be expecting an animal born with emotion not to have any. Good for the robots.

The special effects are weird for 2012.

Smiling! When sentient "life" is created, they must be honoured.

best CGI robot film I've seen in a long time!

💜😍💯🎻🎵🤗 I love the video thank you for the upload. Robots do have feelings. They are emotional things. I can't wait to get my first robot😊💜

Loved it!

Lighter than Blinky and amazing as well. Pretty done! Nice work!

I watch these all the time. But this is the best I’ve seen.

RuberSocks Just the trailer!

Wow, awesome short film :)

i LOVE it , i loved how a robot can feel and almost be like a human

Thank God, finally a robot short movie that ends well.

Anyone wanna realize what happens when they run out of BATTERIES?

The beginning reminded me of Short Circuit so much oh my god

One of the best short films I’ve have seen in a long time. Cool!

Keep underestimating that "machine" and you'll make us all pay dearly for it.

*PROTO slowly, silently flips the scientists off that night* at 5:30

I work as a researcher on the design of robots and I really liked your movie. A little bit like Short-Circuit but much improved.

The ending couldn't be better than this. Awesome work team! _/\_ :)

Wonderful! Heartwarming! Bravo!

Great film but if Proto was smart he would've followed orders and made his move after being mass produced. 👍

Great job!

My goodness, a real movie. Quite good. And, sci-fi at that. I have to say, thanks.

Hurry!!! for Proto & Symphony... 10/10... UK

Why was I expecting the robots to kill the professor when he told him/her/it to stop

Put violin playing robots head in a fake shroud so she can't see to the sides for some reason. Maybe that is why she walked backwards off the building because she was designed half blind? Make the lead scientists whose life work is robots hate robots for some reason. Build a military robot to look cute like a child's toy for some reason, and it plays ping pong. Breaking a tv shuts down the whole rooms power for some reason. DOnt put a tracker on your weapon robot for some reason.

Ok so Proto has more sense than I thought ! ..... YAY PROTO 😆

I have probably not seen anything as short and beautiful ad this of robotic fiction genre.

This is great ^^ Reminds me on Wall-E ^^

Great special effects. Cute story. I didn't quite buy the angry scientist, he didn't feel like a real person to me. I had a smilier reaction to the military guys walking out in a huff. Wouldn't they still be impressed with what they just witnessed? (I guess it depends how far in the future this was and how many other robots were around.) I'm curious why they didn't have any sort of GPS chip in Proto and his friend. They didn't know where they were until the roof door was unlocked. I have a chip in my iPhone that shows me where it is at all times. You'd think a multi million dollar robot would have a tracking device. It was kind of funny that the violin playing robot had a slight asian feel to her, wonder if that was intentional. The young scientist did a really nice job. Over all, it was pretty impressive. I'd be curious to know what kind of budget a short like this has.

Just Simply Beautiful.. 10/10.. 🎬👍💗

Intelligent Robot Proto , Finally Proto had emotions called love to save her . I rate for 8/10.

I don't think that jetpack could produce enough thrust to attain escape velocity for the two of them is my only real complaint.

Just love it. It's really peaceful and amazing to see Machines having so much more kindness, compassion and understanding than the Humans itself. Good job team. That was an amazing piece of work. 👏🏻👍🏻

Well done proto.

This is just absolutely amazing