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This stop motion short film, made in a garage in 1984, was the catalyst that launched the wild idea of creating an independent business whose sole purpose was to create animation for movies. And so began Tippett Studio.
Rated Explicit for blood/gore.
youtube.com/watch?v=hlaXIRTjNfo
justsomebrownwolf
MemberSome context behind this short:
This short film was a super important piece of paleomedia back in its day.
This was made by Phil Tippett, a special effects guru known for working on many classic films such as the Star Wars, Robocop, Alien, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Twilight movies. Yes, this is the same Phil Tippett from the "dinosaur supervisor" Jurassic Park memes that were popular about 10 years ago. The film was pretty technically groundbreaking for stop motion animation, utilizing advanced techniques such as camera movement and motion blur to accompany the animation to make the final product more immersive and dramatic.
Phil loved dinosaurs from an early age. He made this film with the intent of selling it to educational outlets. He always wanted to see something like this as a kid, and figured the next generation would, too. Clips from this short were used in many dinosaur documentaries in the following years, including Dinosaur! (1985, narrated by Christopher Reeves) and Eyewitness: Dinosaur (1994, narrated by Martin Sheen).
Around 1988, Tippett and director Paul Verhoeven pitched Disney the idea of a full-length feature similar to Prehistoric Beast. An entirely stop motion animated film with no dialogue, all visual storytelling, a dark tone, and fairly palentologically accurate. Disney kept insisting they make the characters talk and make the film more family-friendly, and expressed concern over the cost of a full-length stop motion film. This turned Tippett and Verhoeven off from pursuing the project further. The idea would eventually evolve into Disney's Dinosaur (2000). Had Disney been on board with the original vision, Dinosaur would have much more closely resembled this than the incarnation we have today. What a film that could have been. At least we still have the original Prehistoric Beast to enjoy.
For the longest time, the full short was almost impossible to find outside of select film festival screenings. Tippett Studio uploaded the full, digitally restored film to YouTube in 2011.
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RoxyKrystalLoonatic
MemberHoly fucking childhood; NOSTALGIA!!!!!!! I had forgotten about this but seeing it 40 years later it all came back to me!
andrewthehorse
MemberMom: "Let's go camping!"
Me: "No way, those woods are scary!"
Mom: "Oh, relax. There's nothing to be afraid of in those trees."
The forest we wind up camping in:
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