Phil Tippett has brought life to some of the most well-known and loved characters and creatures in recent film memory—the AT-AT walkers and Tauntauns in Star Wars: Episode VI—The Empire Strikes Back, the lumbering ED-209 from RoboCop, the breakthrough dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the bugs of Starship Troopers, and more recently, the wolves in The Twilight Saga.
[1] Phil Tippett works on a stop-motion figure.
However, the stop-motion and visual effects pioneer once thought his career had come to a grinding halt, when, during the production of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, he saw the capabilities of the then-new computer-generated ...
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