STAN WINSTON: Everything in Terminator 2 has been finessed.
We've had a luxury in this movie,
we've been able to do what we normally could never do in a movie,
we've 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.
It's the same endoskeleton,
basically the same design.
We have 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's more life to these endoskeletons.
But they are basically the same endoskeleton.
We tried to re-create life.
And it's impossible.
There's nothing that we can do
that will actually duplicate living things.
We can come close,
but we can't do it exactly.
And that's what our job is.
We are duplicating life.
We are duplicating Arnold.
We are re-creating,
we're giving robotic life to things.
We are making animatronic duplications of living things.
Once you try to,
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
and 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 a 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.
The makeup effects on Arnold,
that we have; the chrome aspect of him,
the underskin 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 that it wasn't sitting out as far on his face as a makeup.
Although the puppets actually work 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.
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