[AI-Smoothed / Motion Blurred] Robocop (1987) - Robocop vs ED-209 vs Stairs

Software used:
Flowframes (with RIFE algorithm)
After Effects
I used Flowframes (which is free or "pay what you want" app with RIFE algorithm) to smooth every scene that has ED-209 stop-motion. I've done it twice: first 8x times, then 4x times.
After that, I took the 767.232 FPS smoothed footage, imported it into After Effects and applied "Force Motion Blur" with samples cranked to 40. It used the smoothed footage and turned it into motion blur, back at 23.976 FPS.
And I've done it 31 times separately with each scene, to avoid blurred cuts between scenes. Also I had to mask out the live-action parts I didn't want to be blurred.
Bugs:
1) muzzle flashes sometimes blur the whole scene;
2) the very last frame of each scene is not blurred, because the smoothed footage is shorter than the original footage, but that's not very noticeable in motion.
Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

[@Optimus97]

65k views, I'm stunned... Thank you so much! I want to remind you though, that this was inspired by Ethax's video kzbin.info/www/bejne/omXVYYGCpKmXo9U And they did it with much higher quality than me. They used Photoshop to (probably) combine the frames, but for the life of me I have no idea how that's done.

[@JAMEYX]

This guy gets it, 60fps is not the way, looks even weirder, all it was missing was motion blur.

[@chpsilva]

You found just the right point, it blends nicely with Robocop movements.

[@konserwowy1092]

This looks great. Makes me wish filmmakers would return to using stop-motion.

[@guyfaux900]

That's the thing you can make one yourself now and just the fact that you can do it with your phone doesn't make it any less an art form. The mistakes are just racing stripes.

[@bananaboy482]

The fake shutter speed really sells it. Awesome

[@sharkbite7922]

Robocop! This is one of my favorite movies!

[@Optimus97]

I love it too.

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

It looks so realistic now 😲 Also, fun fact: take a look at 1:34, when Robo is descending the stairs. You can see the door frame and stairs through his body. That's because those stairs are actually a model, built to ED-209's scale, and Robo has been superimposed on it - but to prevent the matte lines from showing up, the footage had to be made partially transparent. The same thing can be seen in "The Empire Strikes Back", where snowspeeder cockpits are also partially transparent 🙂

[@Optimus97]

Those were the ways to make things possible :) Now we have CGI, but to make it convincing enough, we have to try REALLY hard. To add IMPERFECTIONS to it. Or else it looks too pristine, or in some cases - to the Uncanny Valley we go

[@arturogonzalez-barrios8206]

This is perfect! I saw a guy use AI interpolation to up the frame rate, but it still didn't look right. It's all in the motion blur.

[@NihilisticSnake]

Went from stop-motion to animatronic

[@thereviewden]

Wow, this looks amazing! The 60fps smoothing other people have done looks all wrong, but this blends PERFECTLY. Nice job.

[@TheMuffin18]

Dude, nice! It really blends so much better with the film now.

[@ryanpintar8217]

As a guy working in the practical effects industry and die-hard fan of this movie, I hate to say it, but this is an awesome improvement.

[@Optimus97]

Practical effects will never be replaced 👍

[@maddogUK69]

As others have said, very nicely done. You struck the perfect balance between smoothing the motion and preserving the 'physical' feel of the stop motion. This method would probably produce a better-looking 60fps than other versions as well.

[@honwaho76]

I'm convinced it's a wild boar's cry

[@Metal92990]

This looks a lot more believable and moves perfectly. Nice job

[@BigBrotherMateyka]

This looks surprisingly good. Really nicely done.

[@TheThingKing]

Perfect! Keeps the original spirit of the ED-209 in tact but with cleaner movements.

[@AllExistence]

It changes so much!

[@whiskorias5265]

Really nice. Stop motion with these fixes is really a great option instead computer generated stuff. It feels more real

[@Nitrobotti]

This looks really good! Great job! 👍

[@cybergothika6906]

You made it nice and still looks like the original. Some other guy that made it look like some silly game running at 180 fps too much. Capping it at low fps while smoothing it made it awesome, would love to see a remaster like this.

[@ezmode5439]

Big improvement, impressive.

[@nathansossai]

This. Is. Amazing.

[@compilationlou8337]

looks so much better

[@davidcavalari226]

Stop motion with motion blur > CGI

[@K0RP53]

Holy hell that looks good. The original was already good but this really improved things.

[@tomy586]

Excellent work!!!

[@Moi_Gospodin1337]

After years its still awesome scene and damn awesome movie

[@droid806]

Good work!

[@redemptionfilms.6903]

Would love to see more of this mate!

[@D0S81]

this looks amazing. ive seen ones where its too smooth, like 60fps smooth and it looks too weird.but this seems to match the film so well.

[@KOENIGSPILZ]

Looks amazing

[@D0S81]

there is no going back after this. i neeeeeed a cut of the first two films stop motion that looks like this.......fan edit? they would sit pridefully on my hard drive next to my adywan star wars revisited edits.

[@Primeeditz198]

This Feels More CGI

[@mp.3studio683]

계단 굴러 비명 지르는 거 겁나게 귀엽..ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@TheKenAkie]

the other ed 209: (baby crying)

[@jirikrajnak9047]

looks great, they should re-release the movie with smoothing like that.

[@bradhedgehog12]

Jones your Robot was the Unholy Monster

[@AllExistence]

I think camera shake is very necessary too.

[@starspeed6453]

1:46 Ed 209: ....?!?!?

[@Osman_jiel]

0:32 I got gonged the same way in high school

[@wineem69them19]

Wow, this actually feels like the bots have weight to them.

[@sleeplessknight99]

Wow! I'm surprised this doesn't have more views. All the other CG recreations and enhancements of this scene that I've seen on youtube look a bit..... off, and not an improvement over the original. But you've struck just the right balance and it looks almost seamless.

[@EGarrett01]

I love that ED-209 got owned by stairs. It's so simple and believable and also highlights that ED-209 is just a worse design than Robocop.

[@polemmiqueias2604]

Muito bom

[@TheKenAkie]

ed260: OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO AAAAAAAAA (laughs and lays down the floor)

[@uriah4491]

Perfect! Now about the sound design for ED-209…

[@Optimus97]

Sound design? Well... I was kinda thinking how ED-209 would sound with using modern tools, but not too modern or it loses its charm

[@uriah4491]

@@Optimus97 I was mostly joking. The lion roars (0:19) and squealing pig sounds (2:00) always felt off to me. Like who would program those sounds into a robot? But seriously, this looks amazing!

[@Optimus97]

@@uriah4491 lion roar is good for intimidation, but pig squeals... ... yeah, that's just embarrassing for OCP

[@lord.d1_]

Stairs 1 Ed209 0

[@tankist_operator_6471]

Oooo

[@TheKenAkie]

ed 209: (kowala crying)

[@jamalcalypse]

I still can't believe they used pig sound effects for that robot.

[@ariobrzuth2824]

Muito mais poderoso q robocop

[@pudjaningsih3473]

I le ve you my ❤️ until end of time

[@pudjaningsih3473]

😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@casbyness]

Never understood why Ed rolls when he falls. If his head did weigh enough to make that happen, he would have already fallen as soon as he looked down to check the steps. His fall should have just involved his right foot slipping forward, and the rest of him sliding down the stairs after it, on his back the whole time. The forward roll just doesn't follow the laws of physics. If they wanted him to pitch forward they could have just had him stub his toe rather than slip (knocking his right leg back instead of forward). Still, makes the fall a lot more interesting and funny. Plus provides a reason for him to end up on his back at the landing section of the stairs, instead of further around the corner. I just wish they'd added a bit of progressive damage to the stair banister and wall, whilst Ed kicks and flails around. Would have sold the moment a bit more.

[@Optimus97]

Funny fact - the fall and rolling was actually physical, of a ragdoll-like ED-209 prop. It even already had a motion blur recorded. )) But I get what you're trying to say

[@user-td8fd3jm7f]

Tega

[@guyfaux900]

Redoing Phil Tippets work is kind of like colorizing Citizen Kane.

[@Optimus97]

Which means it's a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, I did the motion blur stuff just for fun. To see how it would look.

[@guyfaux900]

Actually I think it's really good but doesn't detract from the comparison between his work and toland's cinematography.👌 Personally I'd like to see a lot of his "gomotion" taken back to clunker "stop-motion" like I used to do.😁 I just watched his documentary on Tubi.

[@ariobrzuth2824]

Robocop ta fugindo do ED 209

[@Ladybuggames]

I think I like it without the AI Motion Blurred. (I've never seen Robocop 1987)

[@Optimus97]

How can you like the original movie without motion blur, if you have never seen the original movie? I'm confused.

[@Ladybuggames]

@@Optimus97 Your guess is as good as mine.

[@TheTca211]

I-uh... I want to comment but idk what to say lol.

[@raph6931]

@@Ladybuggames you should watch the film

[@DeedeeM3gaDooDoo]

you should be working in Hollywood, man