Phil Tippett
American animator and visual effects supervisorWikipedia
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Sep 20, 2026
JordanHOST
one is better okay
ChrisHOST
i'll keep an eye out um watched uh i saw sad news that um special effects wizard phil tippett closed his studio in um la i thought i think i saw something about that
JordanHOST
yeah
ChrisHOST
Yeah, Phil Tippett, stop-motion animator responsible for Star Wars and RoboCop and so much more than that, but was really head of special effects coordinator for Jurassic Park.
ChrisHOST
Even when it went full digital, he kind of still went in and handled movement and they used the stop-motion for reference and stuff.
ChrisHOST
He directed a Shudder original probably about five or six years ago now called Mad God.
Connor HeaneyGUEST
so that we can focus on exhibitions such as the ones we've just discussed.
Connor HeaneyGUEST
But in terms of the winning entries that we received into the Harryhausen Awards, we had everybody from Guillermo del Toro and Phil Tippett through to young animators submitting their first ever piece of work.
Connor HeaneyGUEST
So very inspiring to see
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the
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Vanessa HarryhausenGUEST
I used to play a game with Shaun the Sheep and everything, so I love anything like that.
Connor HeaneyGUEST
I'm going to say a more recent film.
Connor HeaneyGUEST
Mad God, which is Phil Tippett.
Connor HeaneyGUEST
Phil Tippett, of course.
Pablos HolmanHOST
When's the last time I made a diorama? So last
Mike WinterGUEST
week was Phil Tippett's garage sale.
Mike WinterGUEST
Are you familiar with him? He is a special effects guy.
Mike WinterGUEST
You may have heard of a movie called Star Wars.
Mike WinterGUEST
I'm taking Phil's stuff.
Mike WinterGUEST
And that would be morphed into something in my world.
Mike WinterGUEST
But Phil Tippett, I only met him once or twice.
Mike WinterGUEST
I'm sure he wouldn't remember me at all.
RobHOST
It was so awesome.
RobHOST
But as soon as Phil Tippett saw it, he goes, well, I'm out of a job because he was doing everything in stop motion.
RobHOST
And he was like, dude, this looks 10,000 times better than my stop motion could ever possibly do.
JamesHOST
It's so much easier in the scale of it's going to keep on growing.
speaker_1HOST
That's it.
speaker_1HOST
In fact, the special effects, there's a chap called Phil Tippett, and he constructed 76 rubber piranhas.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah, I read
speaker_1HOST
that.
Jim HillHOST
I- and it's a sad bit of news from the, from the past week.
Jim HillHOST
Visual effects, Phil Tippett, a, a, a legend, a legend in the industry, shuttered-
Dan GraneyHOST
Mm
Jim HillHOST
... his studio up in Berkeley, uh, late last month after nearly 40 years in that building on Grayson.
Jim HillHOST
It's a sad bit of news from the past week.
Jim HillHOST
Visual effects Phil Tippett, a legend, a legend in the industry, shuttered his studio up in Berkeley late last month after nearly 40 years in that building on Grayson.
Jim HillHOST
And, by the way, folks who went to his final open house managed to walk away with original storyboards from The Mandalorian and Grogu, one of the very last projects he worked on in that thing, for $5 apiece.
Dan GraneyHOST
I mean, it actually kind of makes me sick.
Joe RocheGUEST
Oh, my God.
Joe RocheGUEST
And the people that are working at this pace are all extraordinarily talented and have this... speaking of being a fan boy, I mean, have these amazing histories of working in Hollywood, particularly the, I mean, everybody, the VFX artists alone are just like, well, when I was talking with Phil Tippett and we were about to work on, I'm like, just, I just want to sit down cross-legged at their feet and be like,
Dawn BrodyHOST
keep going.
Dawn BrodyHOST
Tell me everything.
Nic BrownGUEST
try? Because I, you know, it's, and I don't think it was the first, I think it was, they started it a little bit in empire strikes back, but this is the first time they used it really is the main thing.
Steven TurkHOST
So They were working on it, and Phil Tippett and a whole bunch of group were involved in the Empire Strikes Back with that little bit of go motion, the tiny bit, but they couldn't get it done right.
Steven TurkHOST
And the reason go motion is used, it's similar to stop motion, except they use a computer and rods to have things move so you get – You get the blur.
Steven TurkHOST
So you don't have the, the way stop motion works when you stop a frame, you know, shoot one frame, move a little bit, shoot one frame, move a little bit.
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Steven TurkHOST
The Blu-ray, the great part about it is... is it has bonus features.
Steven TurkHOST
Like I said, it has the commentary track, but it also has a five-part behind-the-scenes thing where they really go and explain how the movie was made, going through the production, how the dragon was made, and how they're going through that.
Steven TurkHOST
You have Phil Tippett on there.
Steven TurkHOST
You have Matthew Robbins on there.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Right, which one? When
Mark O'NeillHOST
the chair, the sort of stop motion Phil Tippett looking chair emerges from the skin of the Tin Man.
Mark O'NeillHOST
Oh, and people keep talking about Tin Man.
Mark O'NeillHOST
I hope you
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