Editing RoboCop (section)

==={{anchor|Other effects and design}}Other effects and designs===
''RoboCop'' contains seven matte effects, mainly painted by Gioffre. Each matte was painted on [[masonite]]. Gioffre supervised on-site filming to [[Masking (art)|mask]] the camera where the matte is inserted, and remembered having to crawl out from a five-story-high ledge to get the right shot of the Plaza of the Americas.{{sfn|Sammon|1987|p=11}} The burnished steel RoboCop logo was developed using photographic effects that supervisor Peter Kuran based on a black-and-white sketch from Orion. Kuran created a scaled-up matte version and [[Backlighting (lighting design)|backlit]] it. A second pass was made with a sheet of aluminum behind it to create reflective detail.{{sfn|Sammon|1987|p=8}} RoboCop's vision was created with hundreds of ink lines on [[acetate]] composited over existing footage. Several attempts had to be made to get the line thickness right; at first, the lines were too thick or too thin.{{sfn|Sammon|1987|p=24}} Assuming that [[Infrared photography|thermographic photography]] would be expensive, Kuran replicated thermal vision using actors in body stockings painted with thermal colors and filmed the scene with a [[polarizer|polarized lens filter]].{{sfn|Sammon|1987|p=28}} RoboCop's mechanical recharging chair was designed by [[John Zabrucky]].<ref name="Chair"/> The OCP boardroom model of Delta City was made under the supervision of art director Gayle Simon.{{sfn|Sammon|1987|p=12}}

The film's police cars are 1986 [[Ford Taurus (first generation)|Ford Taurus]] models painted black.<ref name="LAtimesDesign"/> The Taurus was chosen because of its futuristic, aerodynamic styling for the vehicle's first production year. The car was intended to feature a customized interior that would show graphical displays of mug shots, fingerprints, and other related information, but the concept was considered too ambitious.<ref name="UproxxRetro"/>{{sfn|Sammon|1987|p=8}} The 6000 SUX driven by Boddicker and others was an [[Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme]], modified by [[Gene Winfield]] and based on a design by [[Chip Foose]]. Two working cars were made with a third, non-functional one that was used when the vehicle exploded.{{sfn|Sammon|1987|pp=35–36}} The 6000 SUX commercial features a [[plasticine]] dinosaur animated by Don Waller and [[Blocking (stage)|blocked]] by [[The Chiodo Brothers|Steve Chiodo]].{{sfn|Sammon|1987|pp=35–36}}