The Concept of project

Brief for Assignment 1: Proposal



SMST318-10A: Animation Studies

Rubbish Terminator

Idea from

• Terminator (1984)

• Director: James Cameron
• Writers: James Cameron / Gale Ann Hurd

In the film Terminator (1984) Director James Cameron first time try to use and Human size robot model to created the successful character, In this film, Director just use Animation theorem to shot this human size robot sec by sec (frame by frame) and part of effect by using make up techniques.


in this example we can see how much unnatureal movement in the each shot, but it still make sence, because it is a robot machine, the movement can be move like this way.


But, to try to make this effect looks better, the director find out the way to solve the robot unnatural movement problem, we can see how he mix some takes with close up takes without any animation skill, which is not shot frame by frame, In those close up shot , he just use hand to control it make movement to be looks like more natural.

Written by Eddie Liu