909MIL_StepSurrogatesTouchstone Picture’s “Surrogates” showcases some of the fantastic photoreal CG robots done by Synthespian Studios.  Over at Millimeter they have a great writeup on one scene in particular showcasing the loaner surrogate of an apartment landlord who’s primary surrogate is under repair.

“It was an opportunity to expose that she was in fact a machine,” says Surrogates Visual Effects Supervisor Mark Stetson (whose many credits also include the cyborg classic Blade Runner). Stetson collaborated with Synthespians’ Concept Artist Diana Walczak to develop a new look for the robot, creating iterations of concept art done with Adobe Photoshop. “I did a sketch rotoing around the actor’s mask and using a bit of a CG skull that Synthespians had developed,” Stetson says. “Then we added bits of a robotic neck to the concept and developed a ‘homemade’ previz. We put a little repair sticker on it to emphasize that it was a rental unit. Jonathan Mostow approved that, and Synthespians took it from there.”

Surrogates opens today nationwide.

via Surrogates Step by Step.