{"id":3295,"date":"2015-12-24T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2015-12-24T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T23:41:37","slug":"lets-drop-acid-animate-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/24\/lets-drop-acid-animate-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s drop acid &#038; animate Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having loved everything from Tauntauns to the ED-209, I\u2019ve long known <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Tippett\">Phil Tippett<\/a>\u2019s name, but until seeing this frank documentary, I knew little about the man himself. It\u2019s an enlightening tour through both film history (from the cantina scene in Star Wars to the CGI revolution &amp; beyond) and the story of a passionate, often suffering artist. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTGQ_K0DBPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: Adam Savage visited with Phil about using photogrammetry &#038; 3D printing in order to recreate the Millennium Falcon&#8217;s holochess board:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sexd06I8mzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>And\u2014what the heck, it&#8217;s Christmas!\u2014here&#8217;s Dennis Muren talking about how they created the Rancor monster. I remember Stu Maschwitz telling me about how the scene didn&#8217;t really work until the animators added a big chunk of spittle to the creature&#8217;s mouth. Its swinging really sold the animal&#8217;s scale.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98hSBkYe0sE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VTGQ_K0DBPo\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having loved everything from Tauntauns to the ED-209, I\u2019ve long known Phil Tippett\u2019s name, but until seeing this frank documentary, I knew little about the man himself. It\u2019s an enlightening tour through both film history (from the cantina scene in Star Wars to the CGI revolution &amp; beyond) and the story of a passionate, often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}