Knockout robots in Real Steel
Published 19 October 2011
Posted by Stephen Holmes
A 3D printed concept model of the star robot, Atom, 1/5th scale, assembled and painted
That nice special effects man out in Hollywood has been at it again – Legacy Effect’s Jason Lopes has been tirelessly building more robots for the new film Real Steel.
The premise of the film is a bit dodgy in that it expects boxing to be not only outlawed by 2020, but that it will be replaced on an illegal underground fight scene by robotic competitors controlled by antipodean side-burn masters, such as Hugh Jackman.
But it was never going to be about the storyline, the emotive screenplay or the development of characters expanding their depth of feeling.
It’s about wanting to watch big lumps of metal smash ten-bells of shite out of one another.
To make the robots as real as possible for the film, animatronic robots were built with motion capture technology used to depict the fights, the robots themselves conceptualised using 3D printing.
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