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Doll Face
In this visually stunning piece, a robot with a woman’s face uses its dead skin as a canvas to mimic the images that it sees on TV. With no emotion to project self-worth, the doll-faced creature finds that beauty is merely a façade that is subjective and unattainable.
Doll Face
Animation
4:12
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Doll Face : Christina Frenzel
Andy Huang
Andy Huang
Andy Huang
Andy Huang
Doll Face follows a machine’s struggle to construct its own identity. The machine with a doll face mimics images presented on a television screen and ultimately self-destructs from its inability to adopt a satisfactory visage. Created in its entirety by Andy Huang, Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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August 08. 2007
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A comment on the previous comment: After the laughter died down, I realized you have some deep bedded scar tissue in that fragile mind of yours. You have missed the creative genius of Andy Huang, the awesome 3D work just passed you by and obviously art is merely 3 letter word to you. I suggest you see a shrink urgently. The creator of this masterpiece deserves merit for his work, use this space wisely for constructive critisism or praise, this is not the space for the absurd rantings of a kook.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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August 03. 2007
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I think it's wrong to look like one creature in the world whether it be an all silver robot or an average median-looking woman/man with brown-black hair, light-brown skin, brown eyes (of which I see an abundance of in this world and not enough colorful variations). The designer of the film obviously is blind to real beauty around him. Does the ocean look black, white, red and silver all the time? No. Do tropical fish, corals, snakes and cats and dogs all look the same? No. There is a rainbow of colors to be had in the universe. So why do you have this jealousy towards differences?? Maybe in space, your world would look like this, or maybe if you are a cold weather creature, but on Earth there is a constant variety of colors. You are making a robot a snake. Snakes are very beautiful creatures in the real world with gold-green-brown skin and eyes, or many variety of colors (think of an ever-changing chameleon). Octopus change colors to hide from prey and look like their surroundings. This is a very natural and very effective way to live rather than all species (in the sea or on land) to all look like all one being. What must nature do to cure you of your own pain of having no variety of colors in your society? You must breed out with your enemies if you want change in your world. That is the only way to achieve beauty. It is not wrong to love beauty, because many animals thrive on mating with vibrant colors, like birds. Stop being inward and learn to love outward. I have green-gold-gray eyes, fair white skin (that tans) with blue veins showing, pinkish lips and auburn-gold-brunette hair and people treat me bad a lot of times just because I look "different" and I was once even called a "doll" by a very dull-looking Mexican woman, like I was something fake and inhuman. She was very inhuman to me because she looked more like a robot that has no "special" features. Her horrible personality ruined her the most. Do you know what it is like to be on the receiving end of so much hatred and jealousy raging in people with no variety in their world? I look at people with black hair and yellow skin and black eyes and think, "they look so sophisticated and sleek" much like a cute panda bear or a black/white kitty cat, like a puma. So many people that are Asian, African-American, Mexican and Indian seem to always put people with a variety of hair and eye colors down (even killing and murdering them out of jealousy and hate), like we are less human and that is not true. In fact, I was drawn to people who are Asian and they reject me because society at large says it is wrong and I say, "NO, it is not wrong". I would love to have a bi-racial child with black hair and green eyes and light skin or maybe a blonde haired girl with gold eyes and tan skin. I love variety and people who say it is wrong to be beautiful must be robots. I look to the day we can have pink or purple hair and blue or orange skin and white or red eyes. You just don't know how to compute beauty into your dull system....I suggest you try a new film about how you must attain beauty in your world without being racist against those with many differences. If an alien visited you from another world and they had blue hair with pink eyes and purple skin, would you kill them immediatley just because they were "too beautiful" for your world? You don't love the world that God gave you, which is variable. Can you compute that? I would make a gold robot or maybe even a painted robot with carved pink gemstone for eyes or maybe aqua-tone metallics. I appreciate your attempt at swaying the masses with your media, but your propaganda doesn't work in the real world, only on film and paper and even then there is color vision and a variety of printed ink and paper colors. You don't let beauty live and that is why your world is becoming hot, dull and ugly, with gray coral, a black sea, red earth and silver sky. This is what your future will be if you choose not to change and if these people keep killing all the so-called "beauty" in the real world. Welcome to Ugly Earth, a world once considered an abundance of beauty and change.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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June 13. 2007
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me gusta mucho la serie robotica que llevas a cabo... pero me dejo con varias incógnitas es un misterio... eso me gusta...! cuando la vanidad expresa un lugar especial en los seres humanos...
¡felicidades!
Espero ver la parte 2 de este episodio ¡esta fantástico!
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¡felicidades!
Espero ver la parte 2 de este episodio ¡esta fantástico!
[email protected]
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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June 08. 2007
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A esto se le llama arte! Os felicito, habéis hecho un trabajo estupendo.La realización perfecta y la filosofía rebosante de significados.Ideas y sentimientos a la vez... maravilloso. Un saludo desde España.Por favor, mandadme más videos si podéis a este correo: [email protected] Besos:) \m/
This is art! I congratulate you, you have done a marvellous work. A perfect accomplishment and the philosophy brimming with meanings. Ideas and feelings simultaneously ... wonderful. A greeting from Spain. Please, order me more videos if you can to this mail: der __ [email protected] Kisses:) \m/
Silvia Panea Murillo
This is art! I congratulate you, you have done a marvellous work. A perfect accomplishment and the philosophy brimming with meanings. Ideas and feelings simultaneously ... wonderful. A greeting from Spain. Please, order me more videos if you can to this mail: der __ [email protected] Kisses:) \m/
Silvia Panea Murillo
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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April 27. 2007
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Interesting social commentary. We are all automatons striving to achieve an illusive beauty foisted upon us by a souless commercialism. Rather than creating an inner beauty, we attempt a superficial and temporary external beauty that the screen portrays since it has no depth, no soul, no sentience.
Nice piece of work Andy. Nice piece of work, indeed.
Nice piece of work Andy. Nice piece of work, indeed.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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April 17. 2007
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A stunning piece. A first rate example of how fiction film can be a powerful and effective social allegory/commentary. The quality, beauty and relevance of this film is something to strive for.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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June 04. 2007
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female behavior...? Males are just as subject to this kind of behavior. Not necessarily with make-up and an idea of beauty mind you. This documents a sad human behavior. One that relates to self image. We're bombarded daily with "perfect people" in ads, tv shows, magazines... some feel they must adopt the same image to make themselves feel self worth, however, one look in the mirror and another flaw is found. It's never enough... both men and women have crippled themselves both physically and mentally trying to achieve perfection.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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April 02. 2007
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very well depicted female behaviour,,,cannot get any better.The concept overshadows the technique used for the making which is just as amzazing.
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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January 13. 2007
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I think this film also has a fantasy theme to it. In other words, beauty is a fantastical illusion, and the robot self-destructs because it believes beauty is reality because it looks so real. The robot self-destructs chasing a fantasy that it thinks is reality. (You can never capture a fantasy).
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An Anonymous Scaredy-Cat
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January 11. 2007
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Awesome. I'm making my friends see this.