The trailer for effects legend Phil Tippett’s stop-motion epic Mad God is in a class all its own
After 30 years, the effects wizard behind Jurassic Park and Star Wars has finished his masterpiece

Throughout his career, Phil Tippett, the Oscar-winning stop-motion animation maestro behind Return Of The Jedi and Jurassic Park, has created some of the most memorable and influential effects in movie history. He designed sequences for Paul Verhoeven on Starship Troopers and RoboCop, Industrial Light and Magic on the original Star Wars trilogy, Howard The Duck, and Willow, and even The Twilight Saga. During that time, though, he’s been laboring away on his stop-motion masterwork: Mad God.
30 years in the making, Mad God is finally coming out, and it looks like it was worth the wait. The movie premieres at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland next month, but the trailer for Mad God gives a taste of what’s in store. While we know very little about the plot—the trailer is a montage of nightmarish images occasionally reminiscent of the Quay brothers—the festival website dishes a little more information.