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>>Stan Winston: Everything in Terminator 2 has been finessed. We've had a luxury in this movie.
We have been able to do what we normally can never do in a movie. We have been able to
take what we did the first time
and do it better the second time.
I can also say that now having finished Terminator 2,
we could now go back and do Terminator 2 better
than we did it this time, the next time around.
But it is enough of a luxury to say that we were able to do that this time.
It is the same endoskeleton.
Basically the same design. We had finessed it.
You, as an audience will not see the differences,
but it's much more technically advanced than the endoskeleton in the first movie.
It's actually artistically advanced
beyond the endoskeleton in the first movie.
But these things are subtleties
that only we as the artists and technicians will see.
Hopefully, from an audience standpoint, you'll be seeing
just more, but more character because they can do more. There is more life to these endoskeletons.
But they are basically the same endoskeletons.
We try to re-create life
and it's impossible.
There is nothing that we can do
that will actually duplicate
living things.
We can come close,
but we can't do it exactly
and that is what our job is. We are duplicating
life.
We are duplicating Arnold.
We are re-creating. We are giving robotic life to things.
We are making
animatronic duplications of living things.
Once you try to duplicate that life in art,
in technology
with the use of servos to animatronically move faces,
with the finest artists
trying to duplicate skin texture and skin tones,
with the finest technicians doing all of the mechanical work,
with all of the original drawings and designs, with all of the sculpture, all of it,
we are trying to duplicate life.
It's going to be better this time than it was before.
It's going to be seamless, hopefully to the viewer.
Arnold, of course, we had to design the makeup effects that made Arnold, himself, the actor,
appear to be
the Terminator
when certain amount of flesh was removed from his face and certain appendages were
ripped off of his body and
the revealing of the robotic aspect underneath him.
All of these aspects of Arnold
were done and then of course, we had to
duplicate Arnold
completely from head-to-toe animatronically for
certain shots and certain things in the movie. So there were a number of animatronic duplications
of Arnold
as the Terminator
in the movie.
So. The makeup effects on Arnold that we have,
the chrome aspect of him,
the under skin aspect of him,
all of these things we learned from the first
how to make them better,
how to make them lay flatter to his face,
how to make
the illusion of the chrome underskull
be more acceptable as a makeup,
so it was not sitting out as far on his face as the makeup.
Although the puppets actually worked much better,
the animatronic puppets,
than they did in the first,
the need is less because of how well the makeup worked.
And because of that,
Jim was able to use Arnold in the makeup
much more extensively
than in the first movie.
There were times when we replaced an actor for a shot
that the actor could not take, because it was necessary to put a puppet in
for an i-beam smashing Arnold's head and pulverizing it.
They couldn't pay him enough
to allow him to let us pulverize his head with an i-beam,
which is what the T-1000 was doing to The Terminator, to Arnold.
Those are times, those are the situations,
that's the reason for puppets.
Puppets are to replace actors when something is going to happen to them in a battle,
or the way they look in general that we can't get from an actor.
When you see Arnold,
and then puppet, and then Arnold, it's seamless. No one will know.
That's what we need to do.
And I don't believe that the audience, unless they're looking for it, will ever know when,
when is it real or when is it Memorex?