Patreon: That time I asked Phil Tippett directly about the move away from stop-motion in ‘Jurassic Park’

May 26, 2024

Over at the VFX RETRO EXCLUSIVE Patreon, I’m sharing a past interview I did with Phil Tippett where I (reluctantly) dived into what happened on Jurassic Park (where Phil was originally engaged to do the full motion dinosaurs in stop-motion, before ILM proved that CG was able to deliver something even more realistic). Phil, as always, was incredible gracious but also honest in his answers.


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