tl;dr: An oral history with ILM veterans on the pioneering CG tools built for Terminator 2's T-1000, including "Body Sock" (for stitching b-spline patches across animated joints), "Make Sticky" (an early UV-mapping technique for texture adherence), and a custom "poly alloy" RenderMan shader that faked ray-traced reflections using placed reflection planes. The team of ~12-15 people used Alias and SGI hardware, rotoscoped Robert Patrick from dual VistaVision cameras to build the digital character, and largely invented modern VFX workflows on the fly—including overnight rendering, match-move edge detection, and procedural displacement for shots like the head-through-bars.