The Unbelievably Complex Animation Behind X-Men’s Sentinels

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, everyone’s favorite mutants go head-to-head with the Sentinels, a group of dystopian-era robots who are able to absorb and mimic mutants’ powers. So how do you create a robot who can be Colossus, Mystique, and Bishop, all in one? With an unbelievably complicated animation process involving independent flaring and texture changes for thousands of individual scales. Mike Seymour explains how VFX outfit Motion Picture Company accomplished the feat.