[AI-Smoothed / Motion Blurred] Robocop (1987) - Robocop vs ED-209 vs Stairs
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Published 2021-03-08
Flowframes (with RIFE algorithm)
After Effects
I used Flowframes (which is free or "pay what you want" app with RIFE algorithm) to smooth every scene that has ED-209 stop-motion. I've done it twice: first 8x times, then 4x times.
After that, I took the 767.232 FPS smoothed footage, imported it into After Effects and applied "Force Motion Blur" with samples cranked to 40. It used the smoothed footage and turned it into motion blur, back at 23.976 FPS.
And I've done it 31 times separately with each scene, to avoid blurred cuts between scenes. Also I had to mask out the live-action parts I didn't want to be blurred.
Bugs:
1) muzzle flashes sometimes blur the whole scene;
2) the very last frame of each scene is not blurred, because the smoothed footage is shorter than the original footage, but that's not very noticeable in motion.
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All Comments (21)
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65k views, I'm stunned... Thank you so much! I want to remind you though, that this was inspired by Ethax's video https://youtu.be/l4r0NLoDdms And they did it with much higher quality than me. They used Photoshop to (probably) combine the frames, but for the life of me I have no idea how that's done.
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This guy gets it, 60fps is not the way, looks even weirder, all it was missing was motion blur.
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You found just the right point, it blends nicely with Robocop movements.
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This looks great. Makes me wish filmmakers would return to using stop-motion.
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It looks so realistic now 😲 Also, fun fact: take a look at 1:34, when Robo is descending the stairs. You can see the door frame and stairs through his body. That's because those stairs are actually a model, built to ED-209's scale, and Robo has been superimposed on it - but to prevent the matte lines from showing up, the footage had to be made partially transparent. The same thing can be seen in "The Empire Strikes Back", where snowspeeder cockpits are also partially transparent
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Robocop! This is one of my favorite movies!
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Wow, this looks amazing! The 60fps smoothing other people have done looks all wrong, but this blends PERFECTLY. Nice job.
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Dude, nice! It really blends so much better with the film now.
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Big improvement, impressive.
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This is perfect! I saw a guy use AI interpolation to up the frame rate, but it still didn't look right. It's all in the motion blur.
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This looks surprisingly good. Really nicely done.
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As others have said, very nicely done. You struck the perfect balance between smoothing the motion and preserving the 'physical' feel of the stop motion. This method would probably produce a better-looking 60fps than other versions as well.
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This looks really good! Great job! 👍
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This looks a lot more believable and moves perfectly. Nice job
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Really nice. Stop motion with these fixes is really a great option instead computer generated stuff. It feels more real
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You made it nice and still looks like the original. Some other guy that made it look like some silly game running at 180 fps too much. Capping it at low fps while smoothing it made it awesome, would love to see a remaster like this.
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Went from stop-motion to animatronic
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Good work!
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After years its still awesome scene and damn awesome movie
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Holy hell that looks good. The original was already good but this really improved things.
