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Two years ago, I began a series of drawings based on my own reimagining of the Nickelodeon cartoon series, "My Life as a Teenage Robot."
Now I've decided to go back and update my design for Jenny, as well as showcase a few more ideas I've had for Jenny and her friends. ^^

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- While MLAATR was a short-lived episodic series, I always felt that the series never really lived up to its full potential. For my version, I really wanted to play out the whole "Robot/Human" duality angle with Jenny (Left). Specifically, on how she's made. When Jenny starts having surreal memories about a childhood she never experience (Being a robot, she never ages), she becomes worrisome and confronts her mother about it (Top-Center), fearing she might be malfunctioning somehow. It is there when her mother, Nora, reveals her true origins. Unlike Jenny's sisters, who each had artificial intelligence designed from scratch, Jenny's consciousness was recycled from a deceased young woman who had donated her body to science (Hence, her very human-like hologram face and quirky personality). Nora took the girl's subconscious and uploaded it into a super-computer. She reorganized the consciousness, erasing all previous memories (Well . . . Almost all of them). Later, she took the remnants of the newly constructed consciousness and transferred the data into a smaller vessel, which would later become Jenny's body. Jenny is utterly shocked by this news and is outraged by her own mother's actions. While Nora only did this to protect Jenny from the psychological scarring, she deeply regrets not telling her earlier, nor is she proud of taking such drastic measures when designing a robot. While she regrets her decisions, only one thing is certain. She will always be proud of XJ-9, not only for being her greatest achievement in robotics, but for developing into a fine, young lady any mother would ask for.

- When her mom invents a prototype for a virtual reality simulator, Jenny convinces her friend Brad to check it out with her. Jenny had tested the out simulation for her mom previously using her own hardware by simply plugging herself into the system, whereas as normal human like Brad would have to wear a helmet made specifically to hook their brainwaves into the simulation. When the two go in, they materialize as their very own avatars. Jenny's avatar is drastically different from her robot form, resembling a more humanistic form, since her mother had programmed an avatar specifically for her (And no, they're NOT naked! Their avatars are simply designed to have a mannequin-type form with featureless figures, with the exception of heads and faces). Jenny and Brad spend a majority of their time racing each other through the vast, empty void of the yet-to-be-finished simulation. When the two finish flying after each other, Brad stops and acknowledges how cute Jenny's avatar is. Jenny blushes in bashfulness by the compliment becoming slightly teary-eyed.

- Sometimes, Jenny uses the virtual reality simulator as a means of getting some major alone time whenever she gets angry or extremely emotional about a current predicament (Lower-Left).

- One night, Jenny reactivates her sisters, the previous XJ models, and the group heads out for a night on the town, eventually ending up at a dance club where they dance the night away (Lower-Right). I had a lot of fun redesigning Jenny's sisters.

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I'm not gonna lie. If there's one Nickelodeon series I would LOVE to see revived into a movie, it would be MLAATR. One of my biggest dreams is to take all of my ideas inspired by this series and make them come to life in a feature-length film. I would design it as my own personal homage to the original TV series, as well as a throwback to old school sci-fi films.

If I were to design the soundtrack, it would mostly be in the same vein as Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), which would gear towards nostalgic value, as well as reflect bits and pieces of Jenny's personality.

Here's the list of songs I would choose for the soundtrack:

Cher - Believe: youtu.be/safkWMNJdDg

Supercell w/ Hatsune Miku - World is Mine: youtu.be/dF6OdELPaak

Avril Lavigne: Sk8er Boi: youtu.be/MM6e9ltaLVU

Owl City - Fireflies: youtu.be/ytBR7ET_6uU

Jewel - Intuition: youtu.be/XeZMpJfdM94

Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now: youtu.be/tBOE56-gOVg

Cascada - Everytime We Touch: youtu.be/-zuviud2HHQ

Jet Black Stare - Ready to Roll: youtu.be/wzPX7YtEWSM

Hellogoodbye - Here In Your Arms: youtu.be/rVsMNGuCXtM

Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) - youtu.be/zA52uNzx7Y4

Cher - Strong Enough: youtu.be/_eij6Vs7FGo

Daft Punk - Get Lucky: youtu.be/5NV6Rdv1a3I (<--- This is the song I would use for Jenny and her sisters' night on the town )

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More XJ-9 Pics:

"My Life as a Teenage Robot" © Rob Renzetti
MLAATR Icon by Superblah12 : MLaaTR XJ-9 Jenny Head Logo ICO

Description
Two years ago, I began a series of drawings based on my own reimagining of the Nickelodeon cartoon series, "My Life as a Teenage Robot."
Now I've decided to go back and update my design for Jenny, as well as showcase a few more ideas I've had for Jenny and her friends. ^^

--

- While MLAATR was a short-lived episodic series, I always felt that the series never really lived up to its full potential. For my version, I really wanted to play out the whole "Robot/Human" duality angle with Jenny (Left). Specifically, on how she's made. When Jenny starts having surreal memories about a childhood she never experience (Being a robot, she never ages), she becomes worrisome and confronts her mother about it (Top-Center), fearing she might be malfunctioning somehow. It is there when her mother, Nora, reveals her true origins. Unlike Jenny's sisters, who each had artificial intelligence designed from scratch, Jenny's consciousness was recycled from a deceased young woman who had donated her body to science (Hence, her very human-like hologram face and quirky personality). Nora took the girl's subconscious and uploaded it into a super-computer. She reorganized the consciousness, erasing all previous memories (Well . . . Almost all of them). Later, she took the remnants of the newly constructed consciousness and transferred the data into a smaller vessel, which would later become Jenny's body. Jenny is utterly shocked by this news and is outraged by her own mother's actions. While Nora only did this to protect Jenny from the psychological scarring, she deeply regrets not telling her earlier, nor is she proud of taking such drastic measures when designing a robot. While she regrets her decisions, only one thing is certain. She will always be proud of XJ-9, not only for being her greatest achievement in robotics, but for developing into a fine, young lady any mother would ask for.

- When her mom invents a prototype for a virtual reality simulator, Jenny convinces her friend Brad to check it out with her. Jenny had tested the out simulation for her mom previously using her own hardware by simply plugging herself into the system, whereas as normal human like Brad would have to wear a helmet made specifically to hook their brainwaves into the simulation. When the two go in, they materialize as their very own avatars. Jenny's avatar is drastically different from her robot form, resembling a more humanistic form, since her mother had programmed an avatar specifically for her (And no, they're NOT naked! Their avatars are simply designed to have a mannequin-type form with featureless figures, with the exception of heads and faces). Jenny and Brad spend a majority of their time racing each other through the vast, empty void of the yet-to-be-finished simulation. When the two finish flying after each other, Brad stops and acknowledges how cute Jenny's avatar is. Jenny blushes in bashfulness by the compliment becoming slightly teary-eyed.

- Sometimes, Jenny uses the virtual reality simulator as a means of getting some major alone time whenever she gets angry or extremely emotional about a current predicament (Lower-Left).

- One night, Jenny reactivates her sisters, the previous XJ models, and the group heads out for a night on the town, eventually ending up at a dance club where they dance the night away (Lower-Right). I had a lot of fun redesigning Jenny's sisters.

--

I'm not gonna lie. If there's one Nickelodeon series I would LOVE to see revived into a movie, it would be MLAATR. One of my biggest dreams is to take all of my ideas inspired by this series and make them come to life in a feature-length film. I would design it as my own personal homage to the original TV series, as well as a throwback to old school sci-fi films.

If I were to design the soundtrack, it would mostly be in the same vein as Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), which would gear towards nostalgic value, as well as reflect bits and pieces of Jenny's personality.

Here's the list of songs I would choose for the soundtrack:

Cher - Believe: youtu.be/safkWMNJdDg

Supercell w/ Hatsune Miku - World is Mine: youtu.be/dF6OdELPaak

Avril Lavigne: Sk8er Boi: youtu.be/MM6e9ltaLVU

Owl City - Fireflies: youtu.be/ytBR7ET_6uU

Jewel - Intuition: youtu.be/XeZMpJfdM94

Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now: youtu.be/tBOE56-gOVg

Cascada - Everytime We Touch: youtu.be/-zuviud2HHQ

Jet Black Stare - Ready to Roll: youtu.be/wzPX7YtEWSM

Hellogoodbye - Here In Your Arms: youtu.be/rVsMNGuCXtM

Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) - youtu.be/zA52uNzx7Y4

Cher - Strong Enough: youtu.be/_eij6Vs7FGo

Daft Punk - Get Lucky: youtu.be/5NV6Rdv1a3I (<--- This is the song I would use for Jenny and her sisters' night on the town )

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More XJ-9 Pics:

"My Life as a Teenage Robot" © Rob Renzetti
MLAATR Icon by Superblah12 : MLaaTR XJ-9 Jenny Head Logo ICO