ROBOCOP stop motion animation

Great to see Phil Tippet's collaborators get some recognition. They produced such inspired and memorable work on Robocop but hardly ever get a mention.

I recently read the Cinefex article on Robocop, and it’s amazing how much they managed to achieve on such a tight budget. Tippett gave Verhoeven a lot of credit for insisting on shots and angles that would ordinarily be avoided in stop motion, and I was quite surprised to read that they didn’t actually use Go-Motion, as it would’ve been too expensive; instead, they manually moved or nudged the miniature puppets while the shutter was open to produce a hint of motion blur. Such delightful creativity - I’d certainly buy that for a dollar!

The amount of patience and dedication you must have to do stop motion is incredible. Animators off all types are something else.

Robocop is a classic, one of the best sci-fi action movies ever made. It will never be forgotten and to be a part of its creation is pretty cool.

Thanks once again for your interviewing style, where you don't interrupt at all and just let your guest talk! Brilliant.

I didn't think they were that small that's pretty damn cool

"Its pretty violent, pretty graphic." Understatement of the year.....but thats also one of the things that made Robocop so great.

The little bit of jerkiness in the stop motion walking of the Robocop attack robot adds a really unsettling layer a terror that i've never seen CGI replicate. Same with the first Terminator movie, there is something deeply unsettling about the way they move that activates something primal in the brain..like "this isn't natural, be afraid".

We won tickets, some pre release at a theatre in Newport Beach, CA. Based on the title we thought it was gonna be joke. At the end of the movie the entire theatre stood and cheered.

I have the UTMOST respect for Phil Tippett and his work. The man really knew how to sculpt in time. I made a short sequence with kit-bashed walkers (Robotech and Transformer parts + different Tamiya kits on armatures) in my first year of film school... those six weeks were my first and last serious try at stop motion. It's only for VERY special & talented people. 😂

Amazing. Stop motion animation must be a labor of love. It is so detailed and precise. It seems very stressful.

Davey and Goliath on Harry's TV/VCR combo!

You know when someone is cool, they have Windows XP and a VHS tape player / TV combo.

RoboCop(1987) was an awesome movie. My neighbor sold me a RoboCop action figure. He needed $10 badly at the time.

I love watching these type of videos while working on my models 😅

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Imagine if you walked into that movie Robocop model shop and they said "Here, Take one. It's yours". Which one would you take home to keep? A Robocop or an ED-209?

This stuff is really cool to see. What i would like to see is how the models are made step by step as well with the actual footage behind the scenes of the model working or not working for a take

Huge robocop fan ❤

2:01 That was scary.