On this newest video from Adam Savage’s Examined, the special-effects designer, former MythBusters host, and famous nerd-culture aficionado visits legendary animator Phil Tippett’s Tippett Studio in Berkeley, CA, the place he talks with stop-motion grasp Tom “Gibby” Gibbons about a standout puppet from a standout episode of Rian Johnson’s Peacock sequence Poker Face.
Should you watched Poker Face, you’ll instantly recall Natasha Lyonne’s character befriending Arthur, an getting older animator performed by Hollywood veteran Nick Nolte, within the episode “The Orpheus Syndrome”—after which puzzling by his homicide. Arthur’s spent a lifetime haunted by a movie-set loss of life he’s sure was his fault, and he works by that guilt by recreating the doomed film with stop-motion miniatures. (Tippett, in fact, has no such tragedy in his previous—which is as a substitute stuffed with Oscars and acclaim—however he did not too long ago launch an unbelievable stop-motion opus, Mad God, after toiling on it for 3 many years.)
Get pleasure from this behind-the-scenes, or quite beneath-the-skin, look as Savage and Gibbons stand up shut and private with the Cyclops creature seen in Poker Face. (Should you don’t wish to watch the total YouTube video for some cause, Examined additionally tweeted out a shorter model.) It’s very cool to see all of the creativity, technical wizardry, and inspiration (Ray Harryhausen will get a shout-out, natch) that went into the completed product.
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