Animating Robocop 2’s Cain Robot with Phil Tippett
One of science fiction film’s most memorable and menacing creatures is the Cain cyborg from Robocop 2. Cain was brought to life with a full-size robot prop and several intricately machined stop-motion puppets, all which have survived and live at Tippett Studio. We get up close with these iconic props and chat with legendary special effects animator Phil Tippett about the process of designing and animating Cain.
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Whoa, that is pretty awesome!
Whoah, this is amazing.
I love the beginning of the video, when Norm is acting all geeky towards Phil and he’s so grumpy!
Holy Crappin’ Yowza! My mind is blown!!
Thanks for bringing us this wonderful interview with Phil Tippett,
Where did the parts for the life sized prop come from? They couldn’t have built it all from scratch. I mean, they could, but probably didn’t. 😛
Awesome interview!
Whenever I see him, I think he’s an old Philip Seymour Hoffman. There’s an alternate universe where Mr. Hoffman is still alive and he plays the lead in a biopic of Mr. Tippett 25 years from now.
Was that the one where Robocop ran on Windows and the evil robot ran on Mac OS? It might have been “Robocop 3”
Way to go Tested on a great video piece. I love Phil Tippett’s work. Cain was not one of my favorite constructs, too top heavy to be practical, it certainly has an animal quality. In a recent video Adam brushed past a CAIN model kit in his attic, just coincidence?
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this. More from Phil Tippett please 🙂
I think this is my most favorite thing you have ever posted.
“How’re you doing, Phil?!”
“Fine.”
Phil always seems so grumpy. Except for when he’s talking about his work. Great video!
Thank you Norman, was a pleasure working with Tested….
I enjoyed watching that. Mmmm mechanical terror.
Phil doesn’t seem like he would be the funnest of people to work for..
But then again, I could be wrong.
Videos like this are why I preach the gospel of Tested.
It is a taxing job to manage a team in a creative and time-crunched industry, in my experience it seems as if the people who get really good at it are the silent and firm types, look at Jamie for another special effects example.
His behavior on camera has a lot common with Jamie. (Especially his early days on Mythbusters.)
Great video as usual. Keep it up!
That has to be the best intro to a video ever.
I think the comments may be broken, or someone hit refresh like a thousand times
This is so cool
Cain, the beloved.
Prosthetics? Who’s underneath Phil?
I know someone that made one from scratch http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/54507-robocain-robocop-2/#comment-579745
My god….what i’d give to walk around his workshop.
Love the design style of ED-209 and Cainbot. So awesome!