😁 I did this video 4 years ago as a beginner and I just wanted to have fun while learning new skills. 😁

They need to bring terminator back to its horror roots

I need your clothes, your rig and your blender skills

Sarah was so impressed by the 3D animation, she started speaking french!

I have to admit I always wanted the stop motion scenes to be smoothed. Imagine watching this in 1984!

I was kind of afraid that the CGI would ruin the kind of eerie, inhuman/robotic jank of the original stop motion but you did a pretty good job keeping that intact. Also great job making it blend with the lighting in the movie. This looks better than some modern CGI which just looks like they barely even tried to blend it in with the actual footage.

My favorite change that you made is the close up shots, where you kept it facing directly into the camera. The puppet couldn't really articulate its neck, so its head moved wherever the torso went. Your version never breaks eye contact. It's just lifelessly staring through your soul.

Having the terminator lock onto the camera as it was walking up the stairs creeped the hell out of me 😳

This terminator honestly feels like a horror movie. I always find the way the terminator walks up to that door terrifying for some reason. Not to mention Arnold's emotionless killer look throughout the movie is just his best performance in his acting career in my opinion. As a matter of fact I would be more scared of This terminator chasing me than Jason Voorhees or Freddy

This is very well done, but the only real improvement I see is the motion with the 3D model. It's no longer stuttery like it was in the original due to the original model being stop-motion animated. The original model had better detail in it's design and the lighting generally looks better, especially in the fire shot. But overall this was a good proof of concept piece.

Looks way better than when George Lucas decided to replace stuff with cgi in the old starwars films.

One of the greatest films ever made. The 80s were ablaze with originality, but occasionally the technology couldn't quite keep up. You did this justice - thank you! 🤩🤩

A metal skeleton chasing you down a dark hallway, no matter if stop motion or 3D animation, IS scary. But 3D animation made it that much more fluid and thus added to the blood chilling effect. The original was mostly a static prop with glowing eyes, the entire motion came from the torso. You added neck movement, giving the T-800 an even scarier touch. It is searching for you, noticing you, coming for you. That truly added to the fear factor. Well done.

They shouldn’t be so scared. It probably just wants to help carry the shopping bags and ask what curtain patterns they want for John.

Gotta appreciate the effort that some people have on their lower specs PC. Some people always have an excuse of not getting into stuff like blender just because they don't have an i9 and 3090

Nothing can beat the original. But the considerable work you've done shines on its own!

2:39 cover terminator's eyes by your hand and you will see an alien

A few shots look better, like when you close the door, other shots i think the original reflects the light better and the material looks more real, since it's an actual puppet.

I love that you still kept the stop motion movement instead of making it smoother like modern movies. The stop motion movement makes it more terrifying. Amazing effort 👌

Amazing what you can achieve with slight, detailed modification of the original footage, but also daunting the amount of effort and skill it takes to get there.

This looks much better than the CGI from some of the later movies as well LOL, why don’t they just hire you?

I've seen this movie hundreds of times and I could only tell the differences during the extreme close-ups. Splendid work!

Original looks a lot better, the frame rate is the biggest thing letting it down.

Whoever you are, I’m impressed. You improved only what needed to be fixed, and didn’t step all over what made this prop terrifying to begin with. VERY nice touch with having the terminator lock onto them like a robot would have done. YOU should be getting paid by Cameron if they ever decide to make a good terminator movie.

I sometimes wonder if the makers of Blender regret making their software free of charge. This looks great BTW!

The close ups are perfect, but some shots when he is walking feel like he is just floating.

Actually looks less threatening

This is very well done. There is a very unsettling creepiness to the original stop-motion effect, and I was worried that it would lose its potency here. But you've managed to capture that horror and recreate it beautifully. Fantastic work!

Sarah connor: let's not outwalk a limping terminator. Let's instead, lock ourselves so he can eventually pin us down

Honestly, I love the direction you are going. However as a fan of the original, this seems a little too uncanny valley compared to the stop motion. Maybe reduce the Hz refresh rate to match the film speed. It might work to make the movement less fluid and more in sync with the film speed rate. Also try nyxing some of the sheen on the metal. Keep it smooth, but mottle the shine a tad. It was in a fire. Not much in the way of critique other than those. 7/10!

This still feels faithful to the original. It hasn’t detracted from the horror. Nice work.

I like the fact you kept the animations and simply touched up the images as they were. Two years ago I showed this film to my daughter. I told her that this was a horror movie. She watched the movie very carefully and in this final scene as the machine limped down the hallway she whispered "Oh my god." When the film was over she said "your right 100 percent horror."

Good effort, but this goes to show just how good the original practical effects and cinematography can be.

The only part I prefer from the original would be the close-ups of the face near the end. Other than that, a damn good job!!!

I am what you'd consider a "diehard" fan of the first 2 movies and have seen them both over 10 times. I think you did a wonderful job here, especially considering it's Blender. That program is getting to be incredible. I can see you approached this as a fan and took it as a challenge. Not necessarily to "fix" anything, but to see if it could be done. You were successful, IMO. Major props for fixing that blue fringe from the bluescreen plate.

I like how you made the terminator look like his Stop motion counter part good job.

Don't show this to James Rolfe.

This was the only movie that gave me nightmares for days when I was a kid thinking there could possibly be a terminator out there somewhere. Now I watch it with such nostalgic feelings as an adult. The way this terminator moved gave me goosebumps. Good work!

This is what my memory of the film looks like! Totally feels organic to the story.

Thank you for keeping the iconic puppet parts in there

People in the comments section complaining about the endoskelton and me here I can't just imagine some one even making such a thing possible awesome job bro

The original scared me as a kid. Watching this version as a kid would be even more terrifying. Thankfully, I've watched this movie a lot that I have become desensitized from it. Phenomenal work man!

with the blender model it looks way creepier than the original stop motion puppet nice work

Well, for me, there is something scarier and more realistic in stop motion, compared to newer technologies. Terminator and some Robocop scenes will forever give me chills. I appreciate the effort, don't get me wrong.

Now you just need to replace the awkward dummy in the eye repair scene. Excellent

That is the best damn job I have ever seen...On every re-release or remaster I hoped they would do this...Great job. Can you try to make arnold more realistic in the scene where he removed his eye? It is clearly a puppet. But again , this is brilliant work.

The most impressive thing to me here is, he had to go through the trouble of removing the original elements from the background plate to make this work. That's a crazy amount of work. James Cameron ought to hire this person and release a full Special Edition, a la George Lucas.

This is EXCELLENT! It doesn’t change the look all that much but that’s why it’s perfect! Stop motion animation was used for the VFX, but your CGI elevates the scene without being too outdated.

That is some awesome work. I couldn't even tell that the physical T-800 model had been replaced in the close ups.

You're Blender skills are so badass, Sarah started speaking a different language.

brilliant. i never even noticed the halo around her hair in the movie, i was always too distracted by how clunky the stop motion looked

T'as fait un boulot absolument dingue sur cette scène, ça sublime totalement l'ensemble. Chapeau !

2:38 seeing it's head turning and staring at me was scary

I like how you tried to make the T800 look bigger. I always loved this scene, but always felt the endoskeleton looked way too small to hold the frame of a man as big as Arnold.

Wow, that looks so much better than the stop-motion from the original movie!

Ton travail est énorme mec, chapeau bas !! Nos français ont du talent !

i gotta point out how amazing the LIGHTING looks on this. Good lighting match is one of the biggest keys to making great looking CG. even a slight tone or reflection difference with the background can completely ruin it the look, and you actually managed to IMPROVE it over the puppet in most cuts. you can see what i mean with the fire scene at 4:07 , which was a little off compared to all the rest. amazing job!

the 3d animation looks amazing it looks way better than any of the newer terminator movies,they should hire you for the next terminator if they ever do one because the 3d animation makes it look terrifying

La Fierté de la Nation.. Très bon Boulot

You done a great job and it looks very realistic. My comment is about the fact I dunno what anyone else thinks but to me the way that the stop motion (original version) looked made it creepy as hell and I feel the complete realness of things nowadays takes that creepy unexplained inorganic movement out of movies to the point where it’s just real and therefore doesn’t feel out of sorts which I feel played on your mind and made you feel a certain type of way. Now I was brought up watching the old style so I have no idea how people of this age think about it, but what I do know is we all used to rave about films back in the day and nowadays people mostly criticise every new movie that comes out.

It always amazes me how fans can create better effects than the movie studios on a fraction of the budget.

The amount of detail in the lighting is insane, if I hadn't seen the original I would think the new one was the original.

I love this. The stop motion looked terrible back then and it looks terrible today. This looks a thousand times better. God job! The movie company should reach out to you to make this improvement on the next release of the movie.

When one man with Blender makes better CGI than modern Hollywood productions with over-inflated budgets. Excellent job! :)

Damn that is genuinely impressive. Looks like something they'd add to a future re-release.

this is fantastic. well done. they need to do this on actual film.

I like how this shows that digital effects can still be an improvement of practical ones.

The new one looks funny. Original face of T-800 looks menacing. It’s a good job you did though.

This video right here proves that when you nail the lighting your model doesn't just "look realistic" but it feels real. Because you emulated the same lighting of the original your animation doesn't even feel like it was cgi and I mean that as a compliment!

Ahora si luce amenazante y coherente con los T 800 que salen en las secuelas. Ojalá le hicieran una remasterizacion oficial a Terminator 1 como está de aquí,ya se le notan sus años

Dude, you fulfilled my dream of seeing this part of the movie remastered. Thank you man ❤

everybody gangsta until your T-800 in blender stops T-posing 👀😂

This is excellent

I'd also like to see the T-800's POV of Sarah and Reese at the stairwell be red with all the technical data superimposed like the other POV shots, not clear with no data. You hear the sound-effect of the POV, but the POV's visual-effect is not there. T1 was a low-budget movie and I guess Cameron ran out of money to complete that one shot in 1984.

It looks awesome but there is something with the original terminator movements that make it creepier than the new one, because it looks more robotic and natural

The original stop-motion still looks more convincing because it is a practical, in-camera effect, rather than a digitized post-production job.

I think it looks good! If people will complain, it's the nostalgia that's getting the best of them. It looks far more improved and photo real. Keep it up!

Studios should modernize classic movies exactly like this. Just polishing with modern techniques. This looks great

I've been waiting to see something like this for years. since it was always known that budget limitations meant that the T-800 scenes could not be completed correctly. It was not a limitation of the time. So I wouldn't mind seeing an edited version by James Cameron. I imagine he would look this amazing. This version is even scarier. excellent work!!!

What makes this good is that its not remaking the best looking parts(the animatronics]

Really awesome work mate! A few bits were even better than the original movie - In particular the terminator head and eyes aimed at the camera instead of offscreen when they're going up the stairs is great! Really elevated that scene. Other areas had some criticism from me: I think you lost a little bit of the "urgent powerful" movements of the terminator that the original had, particularly in the door break scene. Though what you did was extremely close! The terminator itself would have fit into the scene more if you went for a less chrome material. It needed to be more diffuse and never really pure black dark (due to the chrome reflections). Otherwise definitely the best remaster I've ever seen! Watching this made we want to watch the movie again. :)

Excellent job with the 3D model especially with its movements and the way you made it match the lighting in each shot. It blended in very nicely to the film footage. I do love the practical effects the original Terminator had and the stop motion for the endoskeleton's movement gave it an uncanny valley feeling. 4:18 Admittedly this is the only shot where I think the original movement looks the choppiest but you made it look much smoother with your 3D model. I also like how you removed the blue screen edges that was in the original shot. I never noticed that so it was an extra detail you didn't have to do but you did anyways.

If they ever decide to enhance The Terminator with CGI officially, then you should be the one they employ to do it. This is done in such a perfect way that doesn't detract from the movie, and only served to improve on it. The original stop motion was good for its time, watching it on a small TV etc, but on the size screens at 4k it doesn't hold up. But with these CGI enhancements it's near perfect.

This perfectly captures what's wrong with the over reliance on cgi animation in cinema these days. It's funny how the original stop-motion looks 10x better and more realistic.

Wow! You did an amazing job! The animation and the composition looks really amazing! I LOVED it. I'm just a bit sorry about the endoskeleton. It looks quite diffrent from the original t-800. There is one online that is almost the same one. I could give it to you if you want to try it. Anyway, what you did was spectacular.

I’m a long time fan of the franchise, despite recent iterations...and I must say, for a fan made redo on free software, this is great work... Please take anything I say after this with a grain of salt and recognise it’s meant as constructive feedback on something’s as a fan I noticed which if you were to give this a second go after taking various feedback to make it even better then awesome. None of what follows is negative disparagement When emerging from the fire, the model used was clearly different enough that the change was “obvious”...namely that the teeth seemed overly large, almost cartoonishly so in their size and human whiteness as opposed to the original full sized mannequins subdued colours and size... The animation itself was BRILLIANT and got rid of the jerky ness etc, the main thing I’d suggest there is trying to add a bit more texture focus...again I understand this is homemade fan work, but one key element to good cgi in this age is when there’s switches between cg models and practical props, the cg should try and match the texture details of the physical props, such as reflective surfaces being more reflective, or seeming an almost different colour. And after seeing another comment on this point, I’d agree that taking the first bit of Kyle and Sarah backing away and up the stairs, since you can here the sound effect of “terminator vision”...taking a few frames of that footage, putting the red filter and some of the tech read outs in...maybe 1-1.5 seconds worth... The old saying in film with various effects, be they practical or cg is coming back in however many years and thinking “hmm, this did(n’t) age well” Considering the levels of cg available at the time were barely existent, I’d say that IF this was what was professionally created by the studio on big Hollywood budget at the time...it would be viewed with the same level of “did it hold up” as the stop motion did in the original...it was GREAT in its day, but we as a movie audience have been spoiled rotten the past 20+ years... So summed up, this is very well done, no one is denying, nor is it worth denying that given some time and a few tweaks, it can’t be denied it could also be better...but it’s still beautiful to see 👍

Man, that’s terrifying now with the CGI put in. It actually makes me terrified of the Terminator. I can actually see the teeth now. Unrelated but, does anyone want a terminator nutcracker?

You really can't beat the shots with the puppet and real lighting, no CG will ever beat a physical prop.

This looks better because you cannot see that it's a stop motion. This is really nice. Good job!

While stop motion has its drawbacks it usually shows human flaws in motion slightly better. CGI always looks too perfect. Computers haven't learned to incorporate the imperfections of movement yet. It looks effortless. I would recommend looking at the MIT cheetah robot for movement flaws based in reality. However, I think an actual human robot is not too far away from actually happening. My score: 8/10

Miss the scene when Reese activate the factory machines to confuse the terminator 😢

I know T2 is everybodie's darling, but the acting, chemistrie and character development of Linda and Michael in T1 are unbeaten.

Great job. If this is not your main job, it should be. And you should be getting paid for it. Well done.

I love how you modified the skull. It looks more terrifying. This shit used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid, and now at almost 41 years old it still scares the shit out of me.

I will say that the original feels more robotic with its jittery flickers, but that dosent stop this one from being amazing

The original's Skull looks creepier , but the "new" biomechanic is better

i never understood the reason for running into an unoccupied building. like its cover is blown it won't get far just run down the street and let it limp into a crowd of able and appropriately armed thugs

One of my favorite films of all time. Good work!

I just got done watching the terminator for the first time yesterday and when watching that final climax of the movie I thought to myself what would that look like if those terminator full body shot scenes were smoothened out? And then by some coincidence I found this so bravo to you man you nailed it!

This guy can probably replace a whole team of some hollywood cgi crew! But there is something about stop motions that makes horror scenes creepier... like those old monster movies.