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Hi I'm Mike Seymour from fxguide.com for Wired.

In the new RoboCop film

OmniCorp's solution to the acceptance

of robot in the USA

is to actually put a guy in the suit.

In particular injured policeman, Alex Murphy.

As the first RoboCop film showed us

a real actor in a real suit

makes for a very, very bulky suit.

Besides, the guy in the suit

is meant to only be part there,

having been kind of blow to bit

earlier in the film.

In other words he's missing huge parts of his body.

So how did they put just part

of actor Joel Kinnaman in a robotic suit?

Well, the producers opted for a very on set solution.

Given that the character is digital,

you might expect to see the now familiar

green or gray tracking suit.

This is the kind of thing that's

the familiar trademark of motion capture.

Well, there were some of those used,

but only for deploying the EM-208s

walking down the streets of, say, Tehran.

For the character Alex Murphy,

even though the suit would be redone digitally,

slimmer and sometimes without an arm

the team at Framestore in the UK

opted to still have the actor wear a real

and very expensive physical suit.

And there are several advantages to doing this.

The first is they get terrific lighting reference

and they can see any sort of reflections

or anything that would have happened

in that real environment.

(gunshots and robot motors whirring)

Secondly, as Joel was first to admit,

the suit really helps the performance

and his own acting choices.

The way I moved in the suit

I did want to give it something a

little bit more robotic.

So when I was walking

I'd turn my head first then

the shoulders afterwards.

So the idea is he is a superhuman

and has very fluid motion.

And you know, after all

somebody has to effectively act the motion

of the RoboCop suit

and having the actor actually do it

means that we the audience have a more

consistent performance.

Plus the lighting and camera department

actually have something real

to frame up to on the set.

Not to mention the other actors

having something more realistic to react to.

So even if you have to painstakingly paint out

thing that aren't wanted,

sections of shoulder or hands,

if you start with more than a guy in a gray suit

you're gonna be better off.

And thankfully in some of the shots

a lot of the background was actually also added

which makes the job of adding a digital RoboCop

actually sometimes easier.

Sometimes literally just his face

or his chin was lifted from the original material.

Almost everything else was digitally altered.

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behind the scenes action.

I'm Mike Seymour for Wired.

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