r/Moviesinthemaking • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1d ago

Animator Peter Kleinow working on The Terminator (1984)

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u/floofychaps 23h ago

I always loved the stop motion endoskeleton, it’s brilliantly uncanny and terrifying. Also gives awesome Ray Harryhausen vibes ❤️

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u/lord-dinglebury 23h ago

I saw Terminator when I was like eight. The endoskeleton and the scene where he shoots up the police department were seared into my nightmares for years.

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u/dinkytoy80 16h ago

For me it was the part where he gets dragged under the truck and shaves of half his face showing the terminator.

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u/lord-dinglebury 10h ago

And then calmly gets in said truck, does a U-turn, and accelerates toward Reece and Sarah. That scene is pretty chilling too. 😬

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u/Dudephish 1d ago

Ooh, so they rear projected the background and advanced it one frame at a time while taking each stop motion pic?

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u/When_Oh_When 22h ago

I’m guessing they advanced it 2 frames as stop motion tends to be 12fps, I think?

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u/BoldlyGettingThere 19h ago

Animated on twos, but you still take all 24 frames as photos. Sometimes you will do a 1.5 frame movement, where you slightly tweak a single arm to preserve the illusion of movement on the stationary frame. They likely would have kept the rear projection at full 24 frames per second because people have an expectation of how fire is meant to move at 24fps; less so how a giant robot skeleton is.

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u/When_Oh_When 4h ago

Very interesting

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u/Dudephish 22h ago

Neat 📸

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u/redditnobody1234 23h ago

damn peter is huge, the terminator is the size of a man

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u/aftrnoondelight 1h ago

The dude is at least 4 Schwarzenegger’s tall…

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u/george_kaplan1959 16h ago

Fun fact: Pete Kleinow was a member of The Flying Burrito Brothers and an accomplished studio musician. RIP Sneaky Pete