Daft Punk has been one of the most important and influential things in my life since 1999 and years ago I watched their shortfilm Electroma. It was so weird that it hooked me and many years back it was one of my inspirations for school proyects (a painting long lost unfortunately).
To make this scene I used one of my default MakeHuman models and simple rigged it, then froze and duplicated a pose and booled out the face after adding a scaly normal map. Then I made the whole chip face and animated accordingly. For the fire I couldn’t manage a good aesthetic shape and before my computer blew up I went for a VDB, chose a frame, and froze it. Then tweaked Cycles a bit so that the fire was more visible.
For some reason adding a circuit texture map to the face (in addition to the already heavy VDB) made my Blender crash, so for the video renders I had to turn it off.