The 70-year-old Academy Award winner appears on the Zoom call clad in a cutoff T-shirt and haloed within a beam of sunlight.
Phil Tippett’s shock-white hair and beard add to the celestial aura, an image the stop-motion animation legend responsible for iconic designs of Star Wars, RoboCop, and Jurassic Park would likely find amusing. After all, he’s spent the past three decades painstakingly constructing his own vision of Hell, an undertaking that led him to a mental breakdown.
