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Variation of stop motion animation which incorporates motion blur into each frame involving motion.
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Phil Tippett
7 linksAmerican movie director and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation.
American movie director and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation.
For this film, Tippett co-developed the animation technique called go motion to animate the sinister AT-AT Imperial Walkers and the hybrid alien tauntauns.
Stop motion
4 linksAnimated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
Animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Industrial Light & Magic often used stop-motion model animation in such films as the original Star Wars trilogy: the holochess sequence in Star Wars, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the AT-ST walkers in Return of the Jedi were all filmed using stop-motion animation, with the latter two films utilising go motion: an invention from renowned visual effects veteran Phil Tippett.
Prehistoric Beast
2 linksTen-minute-long experimental animated film conceived, supervised and directed by Phil Tippett in 1984.
Ten-minute-long experimental animated film conceived, supervised and directed by Phil Tippett in 1984.
Made with the go motion animation technique, scenes from Prehistoric Beast were included in the 1985 full-length documentary Dinosaur!, first aired on CBS in the United States on November 5, 1985.
Dragonslayer (1981 film)
2 links1981 American dark fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hal Barwood.
1981 American dark fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hal Barwood.
Phil Tippett had co-developed an animation technique there for The Empire Strikes Back (1980) called go motion, a variation on stop motion.
Industrial Light & Magic
2 linksAmerican motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas.
American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas.
1980: First use of Go motion to animate the Tauntaun creatures of The Empire Strikes Back
Motion blur
2 linksApparent streaking of moving objects in a photograph or a sequence of frames, such as a film or animation.
Apparent streaking of moving objects in a photograph or a sequence of frames, such as a film or animation.
Go motion is a variant of stop motion animation that moves the models during the exposure to create a less staggered effect.
Animation
2 linksMethod in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.
Method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.
Go motion : A variant of model animation that uses various techniques to create motion blur between frames of film, which is not present in traditional stop motion. The technique was invented by Industrial Light & Magic and Phil Tippett to create special effect scenes for the film The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Another example is the dragon named "Vermithrax" from the 1981 film Dragonslayer.
Dinosaur!
2 links1985 American television documentary film about dinosaurs.
1985 American television documentary film about dinosaurs.
Conceived and created by Tippett with the help of Industrial Light & Magic stop-motion animators Randy Dutra (who made the dinosaur molds and skins) and Tom St. Amand (who made the inner articulated metallic skeletons of the dinosaurs), this original sequence was titled Prehistoric Beast and tried to improve go motion animation special effects techniques.
List of Star Wars creatures
1 linksList of creatures in the fictional universe of Star Wars, a space opera media franchise.
List of creatures in the fictional universe of Star Wars, a space opera media franchise.
Their animation was significant because of the use of go motion (making their motion more consistent with live action).
Jurassic Park (film)
2 links1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.
1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.
He brought in Stan Winston to create the animatronic dinosaurs; Phil Tippett (credited as Dinosaur Supervisor) to create go motion dinosaurs for long shots; Michael Lantieri to supervise the on-set effects; and Dennis Muren of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to do the digital compositing.