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unusual facts about Phil Tippett


Paraceratherium

According to special effects creator Phil Tippett, Paraceratherium was the inspiration for the AT-AT walkers featured in the 1980 science-fiction film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.



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Prehistoric Beast

As for the subsequent documentary Dinosaur!, Phil Tippett, while making Prehistoric Beast, received assistance from ILM 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).

Prehistoric beast

Prehistoric Beast, a ten-minute experimental animated film by Phil Tippett