Behind the Scenes of Weta Workshop's 'I Am Mother' Robot! 

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Or cgi, I knew it was a suit but I didn’t expect to be real

Same here. I thought it was an animatronic remote controlled model. *_Kudos to the performer and designer for having to wear that everyday on set._*

im terrified too, reminds me of my mum come hunting for me for something i didnt know i did wrong XD

What I wonder, why would it run if it already knew what was going on, acting the part even when nobody else is around, I guess.

Yup! Especially after you have established that 'Mother' is harmless and caring in the initial part of the movie, when she suddenly shows hostile behaviour and strength it really shocks and puts a real sense of fear in audience! Tremendous work by the whole I am Mother team really!

Mother be like "flint lockwood"

yeah the fact that its a human in there is even more freaky now.

SNIPER999 freaked the crap out of me too. For a low budget movie, this was incredible good. I really enjoyed this movie.

I really wanted to make a meme with those images

Best T1000 Reaction Award goes to Mother!

is this the one where she gets up from her seated position and just starts running, because that scene is hilarious when you see how they shot it.

Yah. It made me nervous when that giant bot is barreling down the hall to search for Daughter.

Well, in the running scenes it's CGI. There is a video where this dude is in his underwear running around (because it was dark on the set so it was easier to track his skin)

@@makyotoo that was the corridor crew vfx artists react episode 11

I could tell the story was lower budget, everything else was fucking awesome and well put together, but I felt like the movie was too short, I wish it would've told how we came extinct, what the "virus" was all about or whatever word they used in the movie, the atmosphere they had was very eerie and there was so much to it but not much explored. I find it interesting how the movie ended on kind of neutral terms, the mother is still alive, the daughter still lives and it was kinda just that, I dont know if the outsider lived or not but I don't recall her screaming indicating she dies so. Everyone pretty much lives.

@@Vulprex nice spoilers

@@Vulprex you may need to re watch the movie

@@Vulprex yes there needs to be a prequel or 3 :P :D

The daughter became the mother, but now, human. That's the end twist. I also wish that they explain what made humanity get to that point, or why the other women would go to the base of the droids. But overall, it was absolutely phenomenal...

Same

Me as well. I was so impresed with the CGI of the robot running... it was so human like 🙂

Avatar level -> 2019 -> Wat

@@shohamgodel IT wasnt CGI

@thornbuoy HE KNOWS... SMH thats why he said that...

*MOTHER: MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE*

Mother runs like Tom Cruise.

MILF

that was well-made CGI, makes you think Why those big-budget movies don't look as good as a low budget movie like this...

Me when I hear my iphone noise after posting on whatsap

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No doubt. Think about how he must have planned his diet and everything to stay ready in that suit with 1mm leeway in the arm hinges, for instance...

From memory, Mother running and when the child grabs Mother's hand are CG. They also used CG on the neck to fill in the black fabric with more robotic parts.

Seen the movie a few days ago, and was raving about how good the CGI was, doh!

That right there is the opus of a sci-fi craftsman; that one moment where your audience perceives it to be so real there's no way it can be anything but faked digitally.

@@ChozoSR388 can you blame people? everything is CGI nowadays sadly..

@@mitaskeledzija6269 It is sad. I've always loved practical effects in movies, so it's fantastic to see them. But I wasn't meaning it as a jab or anything (or at least, I wasn't trying to make it come across like that), but when you get people not knowing if it's real or not, that's when you know you've nailed it is all I meant. Like Steampunk Centaurs said, the performance was perfect; it read totally mechanical. Loved every second of his performance.

@@ChozoSR388 no no you got my comment wrong bro that is what I am saying they fucked up the industry like Marvel or Star Wars... Not enough soul given into these movies like I am Mother and it sucks because they have a higher budget and more time...

Thank you for your efforts. The movie and suit are genuinely great.

I can only imagine the grind it takes wow

This movie was AMAZING!! Absolutely well executed!! Thanks to all those who put effort forward!

I had literally no idea that this was a costume performance, NONE! Until this video I thought it was crazy good cgi, I am thoroughly impressed!

May I ask a question that I wished Adam had asked? When he ran, did you put him in a harness to protect both him and the suit from a trip and fall?

Stardust System ...i recommend Automata..i think its still on netflix

True. If it were a (X) Big budget movie they wouldn't bother for a xtra realism.

Reminds me of Ex Machina., a relatively low budget movie but it was still able to achieve an Oscar-winning special effect while contending with The Force Awakens, The Martian, Fury Road, and more. This suit is amazing and the performance is unreal.

well budgets can be any ammount of money..

@@klab3929 I think OP forgot to add *smaller* before budget.

Watch it yesterday. It was a great film!!

But its also extremely helpful, to see how they navigated a lot of the challenges. And what still has to be improved. Weight distributions, air/water cooling system - and bein able to get out and use the toilet without a 5 people support team.

Adam was working out how long it would take him to make

Brilliant comment I salute you!!!

flash backs from portal game

@@pteppig Having a 5 people support team to use the toilet should be a goal for anyone. But seriously, the suit is fantastic.

i LOVED the running scenes, with the sound of metal smacking against the floor, but what really gave me goosebumps is when the outside droid controlled by mother showed up at the Pod with the girl in it. she has a calm intellectual conversation and turns to walk out but instead CLOSES THE DOOR LOCKING THEM BOTH INSIDE, UMMMMMMMMMMFFFFF

@@MaddoxLyrics that scene at the beach where that woman lives in a container right? Yeah it is quite scary scene. And I think that woman knows her number is up once mother closed the door.

I knew it was a person in a very elaborate suit very early on. (first walking scene, I think) Still _very_ impressive. There are a few CGI elements later on, when there are multiple robots in frame.

At the end, I was thinking how great it is that I could not tell what (if anything) was CGI and what was practical. I didn't think it could have been a human in a suit just from the size, shape and movement, so I assumed it had to be either groundbreaking animatronics or groundbreaking CGI. Seeing this, I realise I was completely fooled the whole time, which makes it even better.

It was a combination of Luke in the suit and a CG robot.

@@grbevski i read there are only about 200 CGI shots in the whole film. Most of them are in the outside scenes.

My thoughts exactly! For low budget it looked pretty amazing

And Australia

@@Blue-Pheonix455 Nope weta is an nz company.

I think she means weta did Australia proud as it’s an Australian sci fi film 😊

wasnt it australian?

@@Jroobelucios It is, but this movie was filmed in Australia.

same

didn't expect them to do another episode about it, but i'm glad.. if only adam would try to avoid interupting people. really great episode.

I literally watched the movie, sat down at my computer and saw this video on youtube.

I watched it on the release day, impressed!

I did

I watched the movie last night. Excellent film.

I just watched the film

I honestly did not think it was a real person in a low budget movie

Ian Bruce The awesome thing is, in I Am Mother, Mother actually offers Daughter cake! I let out a silent squee of delight upon hearing that little quip.

Aliens reference with the laser scanner on her head. Blade Runner reference with the origami. Portal ref with Mother's head. I wonder how many other sci-fi nods are in there?

@@defmech Now I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you - those all may have been intentional (and now that GLaDOS has been brought up, I can't not see it), but this popular concept that because something has appeared in an earlier piece of media and is now appearing again in some new piece of media, that it must be a reference, I feel is damaging to how we appreciate and interpret stories. Take the origami for example. On one hand, I see the obvious similarity to Blade Runner - a piece of origami left in a conspicuous location to signify a deeper meaning. But on the other hand, those meanings were entirely different, and conflating the two can muddy up the intended message. Moreover, in the setting of I Am Mother, the presence of origami is contextually appropriate as a children's craft, its use in the film could have easily originated as a logical output of the setting, and not as a shoe-horned reference. I think this is (at least as a concept) important to acknowledge because the difference between derivation and homage is a slippery slope, both for the creators who make this stuff, and the court of public opinion. Put more simply, as a creator you're just as likely to get torn apart for it as you are to be appreciated for it. And for us as consumers, if it was never intended, then it's at best a distraction from the story you're trying to enjoy. #shower-thoughts-with-rob

@@robertb1633 Origami, especially as judged by the pieces shown in the movie, is not a children's craft. Therein might lie the deeper meaning. As in, she's way more patient, intelligent and perceptive than what we would expect from a person that age.

Try Horizon Zero Dawn game. In the shelter where Aloy comes from is similar to the movie. They grow children to replace the people died centuries ago. Caretakers were machines.

"WoW! Look! Boston dynamics new robot"

I would legit love this, especially if they got boston dynamics to agree to do a PR shoot/prank with them. Show off spot mini, the walking robot, then bring mother out and have it interact with people. Maybe carry a few boxs from one table to another and then have it react to someone dropping the box to make the robot pick it up. except mother refuses and maybe knocks another box off the table then just stares at the person with the eye going smaller and waits for them to pick it up. Could have the robot handler gentle encourage them to pick the boxs up and then when they hand it over to mother, mother just tosses it off to the side then walks back to a dock/chair and sits down. Could have the handler say something like "weird, it only seems to do things like this when its been working for a few hours, i guess we still have a few bugs to work out, might want to give it some time to cool off again." Something to gently disturb those its interacting with. Something to make them say "that seems awfully human" but the handlers just treat it like a machine thats acting up a bit and dont see the human aspect at all, or if the person they have helping brings it up they could respond with "no, you are just imaging it. because it has a human form, people always see human reasons behind its actions". Then could have a handler try to activate it again after its been sitting and then have mother do nothing, just sit there, then one could say "i guess we will just have to shut it down for the day" and then immediately after saying that but before the handler can flip its "off" switch, it just gets up and starts moving boxs again, but in a more annoyed manor, so it picks them up, turns and doesnt place them down gently, but more tosses them a bit to show off a bit of annoyance. Then to really drive it all home, you can have a few handlers look worried and start talking a bit away from it, then the robot just stops, turns its head, eye focuses and just watches. Something the handlers wont notice but the helper would. then when they stop talking and look back over, the robot just goes back to work. If that didnt unsettle the hell out of someone playing the "helper", then they arnt human. You could just have SO much fun with a costume like that since it doesnt appear to contain a human.

Jessie Janson all you had to say was “that would be amazing”

genius idea👍🏾👍🏾💥🔥

Nikki Who He didn’t wear the suit for that bit, and funnily enough, he was almost completely naked cause his skin was easiest to track for a CGI recreation of the real suit.

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Going to play portal 2 now thanks bro

When the Daughter came back to the facility, she looked exactly like Chell. White tanktop and red/orange jumpsuit wrapped around the waist. Check it out: imgur.com/a/QT3mUvl

@@staggerbag dude that must've been an inspiration. In the sketches for Mother some of the faceplates look like GLaDOS. Someone at Weta defo played Portal (they actually created a replica real-life scale turret for the Valve HQ) and took it as inspiration.

PORTALLL

When Adam Savage said that he hadn't seen some of those techniques on a movie before my ears perked up.

@@werewolf74 weta seem to enjoy pushing thew prop making boundries all the time... it's impressive.

It makes a world of difference when the interviewer actually knows about the subject matter, if it was some random journalist or whatever you would get the same old generic questions that don't get any insight from the interviewee. When people speak the same language the resulting rapport is to the benefit of everyone

@@Ubersicht like norm ?

gotta remember he hadn't seen the movie yet ;)

@@dragonpc8258 That's true, I'm just laughing at the actor whenever he hears that Mother is benevolent and he's just going "welllll...."

Well, Mother was benevolent in her own way. By destroying humanity and uplifting the new generation she gave them a chance to avoid destroying themselves. But, yeah, she killed a lot of people.

@@mrtommypickles8635 that's like saying Hitler is benevolent

spoilers. She was designed to save humanity(?) and while we arnt in her world, the scenes outside showed tons of oil rigs and there were comments like "the air was so bad it was barely breathable before the corn fields just appeared". I think its up to the viewer to decide what it all means, but if mother wasnt the one who poisoned the air, and given the visuals, i think it seems reasonable to assume that the humans were the ones that damage the earth and the air to such and extent where they might be viewed as almost destroying the earth, which would paint mother less as the bad guy if she wiped them out in order to create a new generation of humans raised on the idea of helping society over helping themselves. Mother also apparently genetically engineered the children, so there is no way to really know what was changed. The few humans we see or hear about also seem to really only be out for themselves. when given the option to save a baby, the other human chose to ran to a doomed life with no future rather then staying to fight off mother. There seems to be a clear difference in morals between them and the one that stayed is the one that mother raised. Of course, mother killing children and babies is all vary evil... assuming the stories we heard were true. Its also possible mother could have destroyed plants to make it harder for humans to live but trying to regrow plants and such is no small thing and would require saving massive amounts of them. There is definitely allot to the movie and i would love to see a second movie to continue this one to explore more of their world. I would be interested in one where there are children and teens now, the human mother girl is now in her 30's and one of them looks much like she did(maybe same actress) and there is some sickness affecting the children there and the human mother sends out her daughter to look for the "real" mother out in the world to get her help. Maybe running into some conflict between mother and some group of humans. maybe a last ditch effort to destroy mothers main computer system by a military that had been hiding somewhere. So the daughter is faced with the decision of helping the humans who destroyed the world but at the same time her brothers and sisters would all die, or to work against the humans to save her family, the new generation of humanity.

"You had a purpose..." >:) My favourite line. x)

I thought the same thing. Hearing the warped ethics being taught to daughter made me realize that mother was definitely not all good and benevolent.

@@urablahblah Warped ethics. To our perception they may appear warped. To an intelligence whose sole purpose is the survival of the human species despite individual free agency? Perhaps not so warped? 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few'. This is the joy of the film - to make us think these things out.

Right? It sort of adds more weight to Adam's compliments. You could tell Adam was thoroughly impressed.

@@GoTeamScotch I've really enjoyed watching his collaboration with the Weta team :)

I was amazed too.. didn't know 😭

@@mitaskeledzija6269 19:18 he just became a kid again.

@@Nueztoy ahhh I am jealous 😆 but happy these videos exist ❤️

I was JUST thinking that lol he’s doing a GREAT job

Yes, when l watched the movie, l too knew it was a costume.

goddamn i wish they could put out the 3d files for the mechanical gloves

I would probably be frightened hahaha no thank you 😭😂

/me uploads rootkit and executes it to override H.A.L

YOU THAT MOVIE IS FEMINSIT PROPAGANGA RIGHT?

@@AgainstThisWorld Good

@@SmokyFrosty DUDE LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF PROPAGANDA THEY ARE ALL BAD,srr caps, feminism is so bad internet ppl stoped using the term feminazy because nazes arent worse than feminism ;)

@@AgainstThisWorld nothing feminist about it. just a really decent cerebral SF.

Erm, Mother was a cheap costume too.

@@Jroobelucios LOL in terms of movie budgets sure but not for the average person

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HULL GRAFFITI ....this was a good movie! it got my attention!

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Think of how much better it must have been for the actor that played Daughter too, having 'Mother' right in front of her, instead of acting to a green screen or a dude in a mocap suit.

I-Not-Mortal Oh shit, I see it

@@malikkelly *Ikr* they look like they took design aspects from GLaDOS, i don't think so but it reminds me of it

Good point, I feel the same way.

Have your ever seen the show's Zed . its pretty cool and funny. I loved this movie thou.

I thought it was pretty bad.

I watched the whole movie thinking that

@@thecrazygrunt Only cgi i think was in the later stages when they where outside showing other droids. spider tank.

Writing was bad

@@Gnolomweb nope.

@@CaydeSmax if you're low IQ, then I guess you could be right.

Yes!!! I thought this is too good to be CGI

@@qwertyboo much better then CGI!!!! That's amazing

No thanks we don't need any more of american weaponization..

For what? Its just a costume suit. Boston dynamic already have advanced robot, it can do parkour, backflip. The only left is mount the weapon to that robot.

"SARCASISM " // Also my daughter is a robotics engineer and has had the chance to work with boston . Mai currently works and lives in japan for a company. This is one of the jokes they are go on about giant killer robots and such. // and yes I get 無礼で意地悪 when people bring country of origin ,race, religion into a comment.@@waddefaq4325

nobody here understands jokes lol

@@stupidhorse69 So True now these guys have a sense of humor about our robot overloads ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dKjCWfuvYxQ.html

Same, I was like the CGI went even better than Chappie which is already amazingly rendered

Mr. Randall the running was amazing! It kinda creeped me out being so involved in the movie and seeing an AI being able to move like that.

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u had diarrhea?

@Paolo G those massive murder crickets are pretty ugly

Yeah when I was watching the movie I was amazed by the cgi and even considered this being a person but it didn’t seem to fit

Yeah how the hell did he do that... in heels!

I bet in a decade or so Adam runs around in one of these. xD

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