This movie is like a personification of what I was afraid of as a child, and now it’s having me revisit these fears as an adult. Looking back, fear felt more abstract when I was young (creatures, hellscapes), but became more practical as I aged (people, injury). This is a nightmarish dive into that dark, childish little corner of my mind that has always been there. I had just forgotten about it.
Stop motion is my favorite ever since watching Tim Burton's Nighmare before Christmas and Corpse Bride. I hope it never goes away because there's been so many beautiful movies created!
Tim Burton didn't have much of anything to do with Nightmare Before Christmas. He didn't want to deal with stop motion. That's 100% Henry Selick's film. He's also the genius behind Coraline, another of my favorites.
Absolutely phenomenal film. Still thinking about it days after I saw it. Mad God will continue to howl it's haunting echo for artists in the oncoming years, serving as bar very few can achieve. If you see this with a creative mind-set (it's intense in many ways), you will experience a first-hand look at a master of stop-motion. Phil's work is a testament to the unique voices that won't will be filtered through a corporation's agenda. It's dark, it's humorous, it's disturbing, it's the most distorted trail mix-up you can find within Mad God. 5/5.
Just watched the movie. I gotta say, the first part had me a bit worried that I had wasted my money, but the second part made it for me. So much story with so little words. To the creator, hats off to you.
"I really have no say over it. It's just something that I have to do". People who find things they "have to do", end up doing some unique and magical things. You found your destiny. It makes you and others happy. That's priceless. Cool as hell too!
“ I am 59 years old and I am so interested in what you are doing. Art Clokey was how I first was exposed to this art form...he was so instrumental in the 1950s & 1960s in bringing stop-motion into our living rooms with Gumby and Davey & Goliath. It wasn’t until 1973 that I became aware of Harryhausen when ‘The 7th Voyage of Sinbad’ was rereleased and double billed with ‘ The Golden Voyage of Sinbad’ at my locale theater ( The Rafael) in 1973. I like everything from the old days like films, SPFX, music, television because it was more hands on like an artist that sculpts. Technology is good but in a way has cheated people out of real human art. Modern Science Fiction and digital technology today bores me... but when I see something I know was handmade I am fascinated and inspired as a human being.”
A lot of respect for this guy. In a world where CGI is the go to, he still practices what many would call an obsolete form of filmmaking. Huge respect for keeping it real Phil. I remember first hearing your name as a kid watching the behind the scenes of Jurassic Park. Seriously have a lot of respect for you.
I was sleeping on this Mad God movie until today. It looks absolutely amazing, and I can't wait for you to see how much everyone loves it after 3.5 decades of work, Phil! Thanks for making this short video to describe the passion, I can definitely see it.
HistoricaHungarica The guy took 30 years to make the film mostly on his own and with his own money. There's no doubt stop motion animation isn't easy, so it has good reasons for the price Honestly I don't care about the price I would probably watch it anyway cause the Movie looks hella Awesome!
It took him 30 years on his own to hand craft the movie, frame by frame. I think the price is extremely fair, and I'm so glad that Great Big Story gave his opus a platform to be seen by so many more people
This man is a living legend, i'm quiet sure we'll se a documentary about his life and art. He absolutely deserves to be known, no doubt about it, his work is insanely awesome.
This story on Mad God came out 4 YEARS AGO and just 1 month ago we got an official teaser trailer of the film …. That fact that this is literal years of work is astounding to me
This film was indeed nightmare fuel. Beautiful in it's own way. If you took Tim Burton, mixed it with Tool, you have Mad God. I'm gonna have to watch it a couple more times. it was enjoyable.
It's wild to watch this now, after already seeing the beautiful finished project and just hearing about the process and time it took, but finding these little bits make it that much more amazing
Wow a man with a burning passion for stop motion animation I hope you will be what people think off when they think of stop motion animation in the future, I've started looking at the videos you have in your RU-vid channel and the work there is truly spectacular the things that you create are beautiful works of art
I think a lot of the charm of stop motion is the tactility ; this idea that somewhere in the world these are worlds and objects that can be touched and held and felt.
Thanks man for keeping this lost art alive with the level of effort you show. C.G.I. is all right, but nothing can top the detail and eye popping looks of stop motion. Good job indeed.
More people in the film industry should follow this guy’s example of just doing what you really want to do with your career. If you’re a big budget actor, director, artist, etc, and want to do a movie that’d make you happy, then do it.
I swear, I would learn more about sculpting in one hour just being in that studio then I have on my own in the past ten years. There is always so much more to discover about things like this and I'm glad people like Mr. Tippett are willing to talk about it.
I only saw Mad God for the first time yesterday and the magic, warmth, coldness, grotesque, intrigue, the words I’m trying to find elude me… it’s the best thing I’ve seen in such a long time and it brings a level of completeness that I cannot fathom, yet there is so much more that Mr Tippett says that means into elaboration on such an elaborate medium. Class beyond class. Inspiring stuff
I just found this who Phil is and MAD God happens to be on my newly Subscribed AMC+....I wasn't going watch it right away....with your Review I'm definitely watching sooner then later....😮
I really hope this isn’t a dying art. I’m sad that it seems nothing today is about real creativity, more about money and fame. What a genius artist, I feel blessed to appreciate his work.
Wow old man. Very inspiring...to this old 43 yr.........old truck driver (who went to school for 3d/2d animation (one of my loves) i understand very much the hustle of the day job and things we put aside.......Cool video.
To say this film took over 30 years to complete really shows how much dedication was put here. The stop-motion movements are crazy smooth, nigh-identical to a live-action film, and all the bizarre madness that goes on is almost basically everything the late great animation legend Richard Williams could have ever wanted for his film "The Thief and the Cobbler", except done in stop-motion and given more time to properly land on its feet.
Mad God is a movie unlike any other I have seen in my lifetime....It requires a few dozen viewings to really understand the depth of it and the visuals. A stupendous achievement of the highest order. When they decide to create a textbook on animation, this movie will be its Mona Lisa reference poiunt.
stop motion was such a huge part of my childhood, there was always something way more eerie and ominous about seeing the stop motion monsters of the older movies vs the dated cgi from the late 90's and early 2000's. i wanted to get into animation so bad when i was little i remember going out and getting a shitty cheap webcam and using gum to make my action figures to stick onto the floor and shoot stop motion videos. they sucked, but god was i inspired.
The eerie mess of Stop Motion has always disturbed me, but intrigued me at the same time. Phil Tippett’s monsters (particularly the large brown one shown in the beginning) Really creep me out, but I absolutely Love seeing how fluid the animation is. And for anyone saying Mad God was this disjointed mess that was a disappointment and a waste of 30 years, clearly you’ve never animated anything. Tippett himself has said that it was a means of therapy essentially. When you want to make something for the sake of making it, you don’t follow a story, you just animate as you go and see what you come up with. It’s all about the process itself, not so much the final picture. That being said, seeing your work at its end is the most satisfying thing, knowing You did that.
Opinion are like arseholes. Maybe remind those people that none other than Guillermo Del Toro say Phil is a master. You can argue a lot of things, but arguing that Del Toro makes messy films would be one of the most nonsensical thing anyone could say, ever.
Real happy to have watched the full movie the other day. I think the scene with the giant gladiators and their 'caretaker' is my favorite. Reminded me of childhood... I'm also glad I didn't know about it until the trailer dropped last year. I would've overhyped it for myself waiting five years.
To find a place for yourself in this world, pursue a dream and enjoy everyday life doing what you wanna do is something so great. Not to mention the outcome of it, his work is fucking amazing!
If by any chance you're looking at this, keep doing what you're doing! I'm hugely intrigued!! I really want to watch your creation! I want to see what looks like the protagonist's adventure.
