David Mattox is a filmmaker and has always wanted a movie to be made about Endoskeletons, and the war.
So, instead of waiting, he just made his own. Here is the comedy trailer he made in New York last
summer. Building a puppet of the robot, having several puppeteers moving him, he's planning on making
several different movies with thr robot. Shot with high-resolution cameras, heres a short of one of
his films... the Terminator uptown in New York's busy streets.
If you are interested in more info on the puppet and the people making it move, check out the other
cool 'Terminator Test' or
'Terminator Mini Documentary'
David posted on YouTube.com
Making of 'Terminator takes New York', David explains
"When we got to New York we had to go through several testing phases of moving the robot, being a
collective effort of three people to actually move the puppet. We had two people moving the arms,
Bjorn manned the right arm and Matt was on the left. Alex Garcia was one of the most important
parts; he was controlling the head and moving the torso."
"To be quite honost, I didn't really know how moveable he was going to be once we got him there.
Just him surviving the trip up to New York was one thing. We drove in a car, so we thought he
might have suffered some damages during the trip. The biggest fear of ours was that he wasn't
going to be able to move the way that we originally wanted him to... but he surpassed all of our
expectations."
"One of the hardest things that we had to get down was to make him move like a real person. One
thing that was interesting about this test was that it was the first test; we had done nothing
before the trip. New York was the first time we actually tested the robot for movement."
"The last thing we wanted to find is that he doesn't move right. So we had to practice a lot,
just really develop a pattern. Once that pattern started to click, everything else fell into
place. Bjorn and Matt started to figure out how exactly to move the arms to make him simulate
walking, Alex got really good at turning the head and at the same time simulate him walking by
making him go up and down, but to an extent that it was not too exaggerated."
"After we practised enough, we developed a plan on how we were going to get him to move. We
then disassembled him and got him prepped for the city. At that point we knew we were ready
to 'take him out' on a night uptown."
Click top link for YouTube.com 'Terminator takes New York' clips.
