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Man vs machine: Zoic brings the terminator to the small screen, with big-screen production values.(Broadcast)

Computer Graphics World

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With its intricate inner workings of hydraulic piston rods and gears, James Cameron's Terminator was an amazing feat of animatronic engineering in 1984. Produced on a B-movie budget of $6.4 million, the biomechanical cyborg was one of the most technically complex characters ever realized on film. Then, in the 1992 sequel Terminator 2, the world thrilled to the most groundbreaking marvel of CG animation it had ever seen in the mimetic polyalloy form of the T-1000. Recently, Zoic Studios made television history by using CGI to re-create the film series' awe-inspiring visual effects on a weekly basis for Terminator: The Sarah Connor ...

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