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Aupperle	Phil Tippett	Lead	[-]
Feb 1 12 12:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Surprised to not find Phil Tippett listed somewhere around here with the men behind the monsters. Seems like a good place to start up a topic with a link to a conversation with Phil. http://flickeringmyth.blo...s-conversation-with.html While you're there be sure to check out the link to Phil's short film MUTANTLAND
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horrorfilmx		#1	[-]
Feb 1 12 4:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Maybe it's his background as a stop motion animator but I think Tippett turns out some of the best CGI creatures I've seen.
M F Berry		#2	[-]
Feb 3 12 2:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Absolutely. I think all his stop-motion work gave him a great understanding of how living creatures move. Stan Winston thought so too, which is why he always made a point to give Phil a "shout out" whenever he was complimented on the Jurassic Park dinosaurs. I'll always be tremendously grateful to both gentlemen for kindly taking time to grant interviews to some unpublished, unknown writer who had the goofy idea to do a whole big book on dinosaur movies. Mr. Tippett even provided a screener of his beautiful short, Prehistoric Beast, so I could give it its own entry in the book. Nice guys, both. I sure wish Tippett and Paul Verhoeven had been able to make their visceral dinosaur movie as it was conceptualized, before it went through years of "development" and finally emerged with comic-relief lemurs and talking dinosaurs spouting modern-day slang.
Aupperle		#3	[-]
May 22 12 10:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Some news and a video on Phill Tippett's current stop motion project called MAD GOD. Everything I've seen looks very cool. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/55820 About half way down the above link you can click on the video, some great footage.
Shonokin		#4	[-]
May 22 12 11:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jim are you still at Tippett? Sorry, it's been a while since we've talked and I haven't kept track. Anyway I thought for sure you would be in on Mad God! -Shonokin The Pulp Reader
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Aupperle		#5	[-]
May 22 12 11:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Shonokin wrote: Jim are you still at Tippett? Sorry, it's been a while since we've talked and I haven't kept track. Anyway I thought for sure you would be in on Mad God! Hi, right on both counts there. Working at Tippett's doing CG stuff as my day job and on weekends helping out with ultra cool MAD GOD set ups. Best of both worlds, I'd have to say. Haven't had my hand in working on a stop mo show since I was DP on those elements for a video game called THE DARK EYE. Missed those little puppets and miniature sets and now they're back. Good times. all the best Jim
horrorfilmx		#6	[-]
May 22 12 11:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Stop motion isn't going anywhere. As I'm sure you all know there are a record number of stopmo features coming out this summer. And yet I'm sure most of the execs in the industry still don't know what it it.
Aupperle		#7	[-]
May 22 12 11:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	horrorfilmx wrote: Stop motion isn't going anywhere. As I'm sure you all know there are a record number of stopmo features coming out this summer. And yet I'm sure most of the execs in the industry still don't know what it it. You're right, stop motion is here to stay (great, isn't it). There is far more stop motion being done today than at just about any time through the 1970s and into the 1990s when I was involved working on all those features and TV shows. Wasn't at all bad back then but it's even better now. A supervisor on one of the current feature films told me that there are not enough highly qualified stop motion animators to go around. I was even offered a technical job working on stop motion features which would be fantastic except that I'd have to leave the Tippett Studio and I love working there. Since I get to help out on Phil's MAD GOD I now have (like I said) the best of both worlds. ...and to get back on Phil Tippett's MAD GOD topic be sure to check out this link and click the video about half way down... http://www.aintitcool.com/node/55820 for some very cool and curent stop motion from one of the real masters Jim Last Edited By: Aupperle May 22 12 2:01 PM. Edited 3 times.
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