I don't remember much about Robocop 2, but the design of Cain's cyborg body is seared into a recess of my brain. Because Robocop 2 is so old, and my exposure to it was in my early teens I sometimes forget how much this design influenced my art.
I mean, to this day I'm still finding places to put little asymmetrical Xs on my robots.
Your creative DNA is made up of stuff like this. They’re the things you see as a kid or teenager that alter your thinking a little bit. You may have been aware of it at the time, but over the years you forget where these influences came from, until all you have is what is a part of you. Then every once an a while the original idea lands back in your lap and you’re reminded just how much they are a part of you.
I just wanted to salute those things that made me who I am. And remind myself that I didn’t just boil up out of the ether, but am a complex art making machine held together by tiny powerful strands of creative DNA.
-Jake