This must've been an extremely early example in film history of using a three dimensional computer model, showing Caine's face on the robot. You wonder if it occurred to them of making the robot, itself, in CGI, rather than that stop motion stuff.
shareOh I'm sure it occurred to them. It was prolly way beyond their time and budget since cgi was still in it's infancy. Just that face prolly took months to render using banks of hardware back then lol.
shareI dont think it was that remakable for the time, a Silicon graphics machine could do that in it's sleep ... admittedly they were about 5 years later.
It was animated on an amiga apparently, software was named video toaster i think
Made me proud to be an amiga user when it came out, although i doubt it was done on an A600 like mine lol
Sorry to burst your bubble, but no mention of Amiga or Video Toaster here:
https://beforesandafters.com/2020/03/30/robocop-2-the-crazy-story-of-how-cain-got-his-cg-puppeteered-head/
wow , there was quite a lot to it then!