Adobe Flash animation project from a few years back.  HardDriver is the story of a desert wasteland future where supply trucks between different gated communities are the only hope of survival--but hoverbike-riding hoodlums want to seize the cargo for themselves.  Human drivers aren't up to the task, so a "driver" type Servoid is activated.  The future of Naka-Mura Gated Community rests in its cold, steel hands.

The idea for the cartoon was based strongly in existing 1980s sci-fi cliches, and the character designs were very much supposed to be palette-swaps, except for Mr. Fixer, the resident mechanic, who seems to exhibit what can only be called follicular SonicHedgehog-itis.  What's very disturbing is that someone actually built a functioning hovercycle based on a very similar design!     

Well, a post-apocalptic society would have to have some kind of paramilitary or militia to survive.  We never see ranking officers, so we'll never know to what degree they are also victims of excessive hair coloring.  It was to be explained in one episode that Naka-Mura Gated Community had uncovered a cache of hair products in one of its supply runs.  The sylized aardvark eating a tin can in the intro is simply the stuff of desert legend.

And, on to the mecha sheet--starting right to left, the Driver Servoid as inspired in part by a certain bounty-hunter in the Star Wars saga, but designed to look as unthreatening as possible.  The underlying trope is that the robot basically has no personality, and is only performing its functions, but yet is treated as a hero.  The Shooter Servoid design was strongly inspired by the 80s Hair Metal band Winger's first album cover, which remained inexplicable until now.  Finally, on the far left, the Smasher Servoid does owe some resemblance to the droids in an early 1980s movie where they explore a black hole....

Just some of the many complex tweens used in the animation.  All characters were animated using full-figure keyframes--and each position was created manually.  This was started before inverse kinematics was added to Flash.

Like Galactica 1980--At least there were flying motorcycles!

This scene, and the armadillo eating the tin can, started the project off.  There's something visceral about a robot strapped to the side of a supply truck knocking a wasteland hoodlum off a hoverbike using a baseball bat....