There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs
Tippett Studios or Phil’s name should probably be in the title here to give this the audience it deserves. He’s a legend and many many nerds will know his name.
Hosting 90GB on Internet Archive is step one. Mirroring the torrents is step two, before copyright lawyers notice the auction bypass. Seed it while it exists.
There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs
Also, physical media.
I'd expect these kinds of things to wane now that we do anything in a cloud and data's gone the moment the credit card says nyet.
Tippett Studios or Phil’s name should probably be in the title here to give this the audience it deserves. He’s a legend and many many nerds will know his name.
Due to AI I've been thinking a lot lately about his "I've just become extinct" quote.
Ah yes, the infamous Dinosaur Supervisor!
https://www.cbr.com/jurassic-park-phil-tippett-dinosaur-supe...
Aww I love that joke! (He had one job!)
Hosting 90GB on Internet Archive is step one. Mirroring the torrents is step two, before copyright lawyers notice the auction bypass. Seed it while it exists.
Anonymous hero rescues 90GB of content from CD binder spotted at auction. Beautiful.
Strange linking at Archive. Clicking on Tippet, gets you to a bunch of other people named Tippet.
I assume the stop-motion studio's troubles were because everyone has moved on to CGI.
Huge thanks to him. It’s a real shame that so much material in this world, for one reason or another, will never see the light of day.
this is great to see. Losing all that material to private collections would have been a shame. thanks to everyone who helped preserve and share it.
This has Textfiles vibes.
EDIT: Yep: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom?search=tippet
Thank you for the link!
It is strange to see how low-poly the old models were: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/46859/!!-starship-troo...
Direct Link to the digital archive at Internet Archive -
https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/
Thanks! Added to toptext above.