Images from RoboCop 2, Orion Home Video
Not a real person, just an incredible simulation. Scary isn't it!
The producers of RoboCop 2 decided to take a chance on using computer graphics to create the animated head of "Cain", the master-criminal-turned-berserker-robot. We met with director Irvin Kershner and stop-motion creator Phil Tippett several times, and quickly realized the biggest hurdle on the project was the schedule. The Orion Company had set a release date for the film and if they didn't make that date their wrath would be fearsome indeed. As was done for the Mike Normal project, actor Tom Noonan was laser-scanned and the data used to create the animated head of Cain. Because of the tight schedule, neither Kirshner nor Tippett was available when the time came to record our performance. Instead we were given several pages of written instructions - "Cain looks left for three seconds, blinks, turns to the right for two seconds", etc.
Cain in wireframe mode during his big death scene.
Cain does his homage to Mad Max.
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