Joseph P. Lucky foi o diretor de arte do T2. George Costello foi o diretor de arte do T1. No entanto, o homem mais diretamente envolvido com a construção do objeto Terminator era Stan Winston , e ele é creditado como o produtor de maquiagem especial do Terminator 2 e o criador de efeitos especiais do T1, no IMDB.
“The first Terminator robot was made of a plastic material,” said 25-year SWS supervisor & Co-Founder of Legacy Effects, Shane Mahan, “like a lens cap that might have the look of chrome, but is really plastic. We’d run the robot pieces through an electrostatic process to apply a metallic finish; but, in shooting the first Terminator, we’d found that it chipped very easily. That was a heavy action film — as this one would be — and we were constantly bashing that thing through walls.
So, by the end of shooting Terminator, the endoskeleton puppets were literally patched together with paint and tin foil. There were little patches all over them to hide where the metallic finish had flaked off. By the time we got to Terminator 2, we used an actual chroming process for making the endoskeleton. It was a heavier material, but it made the endoskeleton puppets more durable, and the metallic luster was much more authentic looking. It made a huge difference.” –stanwinstonschool.com
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James Cameron fez a ilustração a partir da qual Stan Winston se inspirou. Então, eles foram "projetados" por Cameron e construídos por Winston e seu estúdio.
Arte conceitual original de James Cameron:
Below on the left, an early painting by James Cameron, next to the image from the movie. On that painting, the endoskeleton design is virtually identical to the final version. This is one of the paintings that Cameron brought to Stan Winston. "Jim is an artist. He came to me and had the script, but more importantly he had the drawings of what he wanted things to look like." (Stan Winston Starlog 88, 1984).
"I remember Stan and Jim going off to an auto part graveyards and took photographs of interesting pieces of machinery for reference." (Shane Mahan, Winston Effect)
Still, Cameron was open to suggestions and wanted to see some choices, so he encouraged Winston and his team to come up with their own ideas. "Jim wanted to see some other variations. He's a brilliant artist but he wanted choices. So we went through some variations, some sculptures of different possibilities of the look of the endoskeleton and we ended up going right back to the initial concept of Jim he had in the painting he did." (Stan Winston) –JamesCameronOnline.com
