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on: May 24, 2012, 12:24:05 PM

Nice article about one of the most important people in film production... someone whom most people don't know by name.

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BERKELEY, California — In a warehouse space in a picturesque neighborhood here, Phil Tippett, the Oscar-winning visual effects genius who has worked on everything from Star Wars to the wolf pack in the Twilight films, is toiling away on a passion project that he may never see completed.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/05/phil-tippett-feature/

tl;dr version: Here's the kickstarter page for his project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madgod/phil-tippetts-mad-god
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Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 12:28:47 PM

Awesome.  I fucking love Phil Tippett, thanks so much for sharing.

When he goes, the last of the great masters of physical effects will be gone and we'll be stuck with CGI forever after.

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Reply #2 on: May 24, 2012, 12:44:59 PM

Ya, one of the things that pisses me off about Lucas is how his redos erase some of the amazing work of the people who did stuff on the originals.

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Reply #3 on: May 24, 2012, 12:54:03 PM

Ya, one of the things that pisses me off about Lucas is how his redos erase some of the amazing work of the people who did stuff on the originals.
He's not the only one who has pulled that kind of thing: http://www.amazon.com/Blizzard-Ozz-Ozzy-Osbourne/dp/B000063DFT
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Reply #4 on: May 24, 2012, 01:16:02 PM

At least they were put back in the 2011 30th anniversary reissue.  But ya, Sharon sucks.  She also just kicked Eddie Trunk off of his Sirius channel based on some grudge.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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Reply #5 on: May 24, 2012, 08:27:34 PM

But ya, Sharon sucks.  She also just kicked Eddie Trunk off of his Sirius channel based on some grudge.
Telling it like it is tends to piss people off who dislike hearing anything bad about themselves...
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Reply #6 on: May 27, 2012, 12:53:49 AM

Haha, wow, I worked literally a block away from that place for almost 2 and a half years.  So much random weird shit going on in that post industrial part of Berkeley.  You have no idea whats going on around you just walking a few blocks in any direction (I was at a software company).  Not joking, I use to buy a 24 of some random beer from the local liquor store and sit on steps under a tree right next to that place drinking during lunch hour on particularly bad/reflective days.  Never was able to figure what the fuck it was for, though it looked pretty fancy.

So.  Damn.  Weird.

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