Results from the Twitter poll came to match my expectations as 2 and 6 came out as the winner. However, after some experimentation with the body, I found the roundness and 'chubbiness' of 6 really offsets the characteristic and aesthetic of the entire body, and as a Twitter user commented :
''2. The thinner face makes me think of an adult, where as 6 reminds me of a child with it's rounded features. I'd want a servant that seems experienced and capable, not young and ignorant. The simple face seems friendly, I imagine that it could express through emotes''
Therefore I settled with a combination of both designs for the final head. As a result, the design managed retained the expressiveness of 6's digital screen face while balance it out with a more well-proportioned head shape.
Finally, to finish of the character design process, I made a more detailed T-pose sheet (with both the female and male body). This can be utilised later on if I ever decided to make a 3D model out of it.
Overall I really like the concept I came up with for SAM, and I think I succeed in my goal in a sense that it came out looking clean, simplistic, approachable and highly adaptable to different looks, elements that I feel would be characteristic of a mass-produced service robot of the future. Narratively however, there's been discussions regarding the question : "What if the customers wants an animal, or a baby robot", which is an idea I've experimented with the Sammy body-type in the concepts above. However, for the particular subjects of the mood paintings I'm doing (love and old age), I think the Samuel and Samantha would be sufficient.
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