Just prior to shooting Rancor in Return of the Jedi a big 5K light fell on my hand causing a huge blood blister.
We did a number of takes and broke for lunch.
My hand was so swollen that I couldn’t remove it.
I had to order out and ate lunch with my hand up Rancor’s ass.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I BLINK MY EYES IN AMAZEMENT THAT MY MOVIE 'MAD GOD’ HAS BEEN RECIEVED SO WELL.
IT’S BEYOND MY WILDEST EXPECTATIONS!
I WAS UNCERTAIN AS TO WHETHER 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 WOULD LIKE IT.
ONE COULD NEVER PITCH AN IDEA LIKE THIS TO A STUDIO.
1/2
Congrats
@Jon_Favreau
on the amazing success of
@themandalorian
. It’s really something. Reminds me of our adventures making the original trilogy back in the day, shootin’ from the hip. I tell you, I’d love to come back on board and get my hands dirty with you guys!
This whole episode is a love letter to
@PhilTippett
. Phil’s career is a almanac of the recent history of visual effects, and he’s a true artist. There’s a great doc “Mad Dreams and Monsters” that my friends
@MadPoncet
& Giles Penso made, highly recommended.
The mysterious "Lightman" was filmed forty years ago today for Return of the Jedi and pretty much immediately abandoned.
@PhilTippett
What do you remember about it?
I COULDN’T EVEN PITCH IT TO MYSELF.
HERE’S THE POSITION THAT I OPERATED FROM:
IF YOU BUILD A BETTER MOUSETRAP THE WORLD WILL BEAT A PATH TO YOUR DOOR.
THAT SORT OF WORKED.
2/2
“Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.”
Many happy returns of the day, Guillermo del Toro (
@RealGDT
).
Thank you for letting us conjure creatures with you!
🖼️ via
@altmovieposters
.
🎨 Blade II by Gerrin Tramis.
🎨 Hellboy by Zakuro Aoyama.
Phil- Master- seasons pass, movies stay. Dreams endure. Your fever dream will. For as long as this art form lasts, it will be right up there. Animation is film. Mad God is film. Phil Tippett is film.
Mad God 📀:
Audio commentary by writer-director
@PhilTippett
&
@RealGDT
Commentary by cast & crew members
Interview w/Phil
Maya Tippett’s The Making of Mad God + Worse than the Demon
Mad God Influences & Inspirations
Academy of Art University & Mad God
BTS montage
Photo gallery
Just prior to shooting Rancor in Return of the Jedi a big 5K light fell on my hand causing a huge blood blister.
We did a number of takes and broke for lunch.
My hand was so swollen that I couldn’t remove it.
I had to order out and ate lunch with my hand up Rancor’s ass.
Best of luck to all the
#OscarNoms
& dear friends with nominations.
I don’t think The Academy was ready for all of the Mad God fluids to flood Dolby Theatre in March.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I BLINK MY EYES IN AMAZEMENT THAT MY MOVIE 'MAD GOD’ HAS BEEN RECIEVED SO WELL.
IT’S BEYOND MY WILDEST EXPECTATIONS!
I WAS UNCERTAIN AS TO WHETHER 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 WOULD LIKE IT.
ONE COULD NEVER PITCH AN IDEA LIKE THIS TO A STUDIO.
1/2
Reminder that code: DINOSUPERVISOR will get you an extended 30-day free trial of Shudder where
#MadGodMovie
is streaming right now.
Valid for new signups at , offer expires July 31, 2022.
here’s your random shot of the day! got one of these fellas at the studio. here’s the thing… they were NEVER designed after the Oakland shipping cranes. They were more like, er, stilt-walking garbage trucks! Any
#empirestrikesback
fans out there?
“Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust.”
Dragonheart turns 26 today.
With Peter Konig (sculptor) and the final Draco model.
I’m proud to partner with
@Shudder
on the release of
#MadGodMovie
, and it’s an honor that my original vision can now be shared with audiences across the country.
Happy 77th Birthday to nine-time Oscar-winning ILM legend Dennis Muren, here describing one of the greatest stop-motion effects sequences outside of a Ray Harryhausen movie.
#StarWars
Friday 29th January 1982 - Shooting continued at
@elstreestudios
for Revenge of the Jedi on the Jabba's Throne Room set.
Here's an early cut of the Rancor scene with
@HamillHimself
. Several elements were ultimately deleted.
@PhilTippett
- Who was in the gorilla costume?
Just finished watching Light & Magic, I have to say this documentary is incredible. Everything is so fascinating, and the way all these people talk about their work is touching.
@PhilTippett
almost brought tears to my eyes several times, he seems genuinely so kind and passionate.
For you folks getting into
@themandalorian
season 2: Here's the creature I eventually turned into the big
@starwars
chess guy!
#TBT
to 67-68! The 2nd image is what that puppet looks like today!
.
@jonfavreau
Since the dawn of his existence, Humankind has ruled the earth. But now the rules are about to change.
On this day in 1997: Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS was released.
#ThrowbackThursday
📸 via
@William_Forsche
.
Ray Bradbury checking out the handy work of a 17 year old
@PhilTippett
in Berkeley, California during the 26th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) also known as Baycon circa 1968.
Let’s start with the headline grabbers. Opening night: THE TOXIC AVENGER. Peter Dinklage wields the mop. Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon rule. Macon Blair directs.
@legendary
produces. FF audiences flip.
I pretty much forgot this movie, although the pic I did just before Coneheads was Jurassic Park - quite a contrast.
Coneheads was stop motion and last stop motion for me until Mad God, The Mandalorian and Pokerface.
Thanks to all for watching on the big screen!
STILL playing in Japan 6 months after the theatrical release
@mad_godJP
.
Now playing in France
@CarlottaFilms
.
Peter Weller is ready for RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop. Your move, creep.
The SCREAMBOX Original four-part docuseries RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop premiers August 29.
Emerald Fennell says she would love to make a ‘JURASSIC PARK’ film and pitches her own take — “Well, first and foremost, it’s very erotic.”
“So, there’s a marriage between a man and a velociraptor and it’s basically a domestic drama.”
(via: )
Did you notice Robby in Mad God?
That location was a dump.
Cars, oil drums, useless telephone poles are what one can expect to find in such a location.
Those guys were model kits that I aged and tossed on the heap.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids turns 34 today.
I was happy to help my friend Joe Johnston on his first feature film.
We’d worked together on the first three Star Wars pics.
In the animatics, there was a shot where Rexy pulls the car down the tracks for some distance, creating a deep groove in the mud. Regrettably, that shot was never filmed. Phil Tippett put that shot in the animatics specifically to serve that purpose.
Besides inspiring the milieu of the ep, Phil and his team designed and created the Orpheus Syndrome creatures and did the stop motion sequences at the end. Also some of the CUs of Nolte’s hands on the creatures are actually Phil’s.
Today would have been
@Ray_Harryhausen
's 102nd birthday.
It's wonderful and means a lot to be awarded the inaugural Ray Harryhausen Hall of Fame trophy and for
#MadGodMovie
to win Best Film
@HarryhausenAWDS
.
Remember to celebrate Ray all day!
The Ray Harryhausen Awards- Winner Announcement 2022. Find our which films have won in each category of the first ever Harryhausen Awards
#harryhausenawards
This time of year, our thoughts turn to you.
You keep us going and we are truly grateful to be a part of your projects: past, present and future!
We are looking forward to more partnerships next year and beyond.
I've reached episode 3 of 'Light and Magic' and I have decided that I want Phil Tippet to be my uncle and teach me how to find Zen like peace through stop-go animation.
The man is a treasure.
- Jamie
The hands of a craftsman that gave us a very special era in filmmaking.
A total filmmaker that had his hands in everything.
Thank you,
@Ray_Harryhausen
.
For Your Consideration, “Light & Magic”.
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan and the team at
@RealImagine
take viewers on an adventure behind the curtains here at Industrial Light & Magic. Stream all episodes now on
@DisneyPlus
.
#FYC
Once scanned the Production Designer put on goggles and did a location scout reduced to that miniature size…wild!
Have you streamed Disney Gallery:
#TheMandalorian
“The Making of Season 3” on
@DisneyPlus
yet?
In one week, Disney Gallery:
#TheMandalorian
returns with “The Making of Season 3” 🎥
Go behind the scenes in the all-new special, streaming June 28 on
@DisneyPlus
.