Jurassic Park legend reveals AI-powered Mad God sequel at major event
Mad God creator and Jurassic Park effects legend Phil Tippett will reveal how generative AI is being used on his stop-motion film’s sequel.
The filmmaker behind one of stop-motion's strangest modern movies is embracing artificial intelligence for its sequel, with audiences about to get their first behind-the-scenes look.
Oscar-winning visual effects pioneer Phil Tippett is working on a follow-up to Mad God, with the production using generative AI system LOFT alongside Tippett's distinctive handmade filmmaking techniques.
Mad God took 30 years to make
Tippett has an extraordinary effects career stretching from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and RoboCop to Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers and The Mandalorian and Grogu.
His own Mad God was a very different proposition. The experimental stop-motion feature took around three decades to complete before finally reaching cinemas in 2022, building a nightmarish world through physical models, puppets and painstaking animation.
LOFT is designed to manage generative AI across larger productions, keeping track of assets, prompts, approved versions, costs and creative decisions rather than treating every generated clip as an isolated experiment.
Importantly, Tippett is not abandoning his handmade visual style. The VIEW Conference presentation will explore how AI-supported production is being combined with his established filmmaking methods, with previously unseen material from the sequel due to be shown.
Tippett will join the 15 October session remotely alongside LOFTAPPS chief executive Gary Mundell and chief technology officer Remko Noteboom. LOFT itself makes its European debut during VIEW Conference, which runs in Turin from 12 to 16 October.
For a filmmaker whose most personal project took 30 years to finish, seeing how AI changes the process of making its sequel could provide one of the clearest comparisons yet between old and new production methods.
Image credits: LOFTAPPS.
