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[Rishav]

Why, hello thar, gentlepeeps.

so i decided to leave my detailed model for the time being and instead go for the simplest model i could make. this should be quite manageable for learning UV, texturing, skinning etc.
I have made two robots, one male and the other female. I will be going for something similar to Wall-E. the male robot is an obsolete blocky model, grimy and scratchy. the female model is a new and advanced one.  The female gets kidnapped by evil unicornbots and the male one goes to save her.
The very interesting problem is how do you define a robot as a male or female?
If I had lots of plygon i would have gone for slimmer curvier model as a female with clean cuts and an overall elegant ambience. But how do I do this with such low details. Its like making a character for the 8 bit era. you just don't have enough pixels to clearly define a character but you have to come up with visual cues which are very appealing and are immediately identifiable.
you have very few polygons and you have to get an unmistakable feminine look. Give me ideas folks. Especially people who work with pixelart a lot. This should be right up your alley.

Personally I am thinking of adding in a red bow by her "ear" and put in a bit of pink texture. Any suggestions?

[Lukas]

Boobs.

[handCraftedRadio]

put a pink bow on her head.

[moi]

I'd put some pink in her texture. Also, state in the story that it is a female.

[astrospoon]

a little metallic "skirt"?

[Simon Andersson]

Posture! Although that could be hard without hips

What about shoes with high heels?

[Kingel]

I don't think you need to use colors or clothes to show gender. How about making her body shaped more like an hourglass? I also think it might be a good idea to make the male robot read more like a male as well. Square reads as neuter (or child) to me. Men have broad shoulders, so making his body taper a bit might help.

[Chris Pavia]

As previously mentioned, give her an hourglass figure, so her waist is thinner than her shoulders and hips.  It doesn't have to be super smooth so don't waste a bunch of edge loops, just hint at it.  Also larger, rounder eyes.

[Türbo Bröther]

A serial number that uses more 0s than 1s.

[Pigbuster]

Do they need to have genders at all?

I mean, they're robots. You could just go with "it".

[michael]

make that torsos trapazoidal and have the male robot be top heavy and the female robot be bottom heavy. 

[JLJac]

make that torsos trapazoidal and have the male robot be top heavy and the female robot be bottom heavy. 

Male - Shoulders wider than hips
Female - The other way around

 

[Rishav]

I actually don't want to the shoulder/hips way as it is more indicative of a mature fully formed sensual figure. I intend it to be more like a kiddy-cartoonish figure. I just looked at eva in Wall-E again and realized that maybe I can taper her torso towards the bottom a bit. Maybe that will help. 

[Xion]

it's not really sensual at all so much as just the way women differ from men. You could try tapering at the knees/elbows/ankle/wrist?

[Pietepiet]

I actually don't want to the shoulder/hips way as it is more indicative of a mature fully formed sensual figure. I intend it to be more like a kiddy-cartoonish figure. I just looked at eva in Wall-E again and realized that maybe I can taper her torso towards the bottom a bit. Maybe that will help. 

Well, EVE never looked female to me when I just saw renders of her, to be honest. What made her female was the way she moved around, and her voice.

If you want to keep the kid-like figure, I'd say add a metal skirt or a bow or maybe some metalic pony tails, like many others have suggested. Something like this:



[EDIT] And make her hands and feet a bit smaller. Those don't really read as feminine to me.

[Rishav]

the bow was indeed my first choice too. like in the bugs bunny cartoons the female bunny had long eyelashes and a bow.
That and some pink and white texture. I was just wondering if there were some more things I could do.

Anyway, I will be making some changes to the model when I go home. Thanks a lot folks. You have been a great help. I will post the textured versions soon.

[astrospoon]

There is always this too:



 :D

[pen]

There is always this too:



 :D

     

[Rishav]

Shoo!!! don't ruin the supposed innocence  of my robots.   

btw, I have given the girl robot a bow and a bit of a waist. and n ow its naming time. I am leaning towards Q-Bit(Cube-it, get it??!! HAR HAR) for the male and Lua (<3 lua) for the female one. any other ideas?

@piet. Good idea on hands and feet. made them a bit smaller. not too much though because her frame is looking too small now.

[Pietepiet]

I like Q-Bit. It sounds like a sort of production name given to this line of bots, but still has the feeling of a name to it. Nice

I like Lua as well. Maybe make it stand for something like WALL-E and EVE did?