Talk about an upgrade. While Paul Verhoeven's original RoboCop suit was all bulky, silver and boxy, the reboot version seems to have taken on a more sleek, stealthy, almost ninja-like armor.



director José Padilha had wanted to stay loyal to RoboCop's beloved look, but also to update the design to look like it was technology from 2014's dystopian near-future. For the redesign, he enlisted production designer Martin Whist.:
"It was really important to us to get the design right because we're fans. It's this iconic suit, but many of its elements would appear dated to the eyes of a contemporary audience coming to the franchise for the first time," Whist says in an interview with Co.Design. "At a time when Apple sets the bar when it comes to design, we wanted to stress the sleekness of 21st-century design as contrasted to the boxy technology of the 1980s."
The new RoboCop included three different suits. The first was a prototype that looked much like the costume from the original which gets upgraded over time. The upgraded black suit that comes complete with a gleaming red visor was inspired by real-world materials like graphene.

Once the designs were finalized, the team meticulously modeled the two suits on computers, then "grown" on high-definition 3-D printers. These elements were then printed out before handed over to special effects company Legacy Effects to paint them and assemble into the final suit.

[FastCoDesign]