As we are animating simple objects in Maya and giving them expression and emotion without the use of complex facial expressions, environmental props etc I thought I'd reference the Tachikoma from ghost in the shell.
Although they are essentially fighting machines, they convey personality through their voices and gestures, but even without the voices and no facial expression whatsoever you can still detect some form of emotion from these machines, (they do appear to have "souls" or some kind of personality in the series) simply by the way they move, despite their bulky appearance they are very adept at moving around, cat like if you will, and have pet-like mannerisms, in fact although I watch mecha, I never really "feel" anything for the machines, (except a little in eva when I realized the eva's were part biological) but in this i felt annoyed by the tachikoma, then even more annoyed and then I started to like them and even sympathies with them!
A great achievement if you ask me for an animator to make the audience connect with his/her characters as it is, but expressionless machines? well I guess just about everything to do with GITS must just be pure awesome then.
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