robotriot

A quick boss portrait for Pitiri, which seems to be nearing completion!

Steampunk robot! Heavily inspired by Keith Thompson.

These robot portraits were created for Jürgen Brunner‘s indie game Pitiri.

While doing some research for my thesis, I stumbled upon these amazing “automatons.” Automatons are basically mechanical robots with two of the most famous examples being The Turk and Vaucanson’s duck. The Golden Age of automatons was the second half of the 19th century, the ones shown here however were created by a Swiss watchmaker by the name of Pierre Jaquet-Droz around the year 1770 and finished in 1774.

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