Mark A.Z. Dippé (born November 9, 1956) is an American film director
and visual effects supervisor. He has directed numerous films from
1997 to the present day, starting with Spawn.Mark Earnest Dippé was
born in Japan to a Chinese mother and an American father, both of whom
worked for the United States Army. At the age of two, the Dippés
moved back to the United States, where his father was discharged from
the Army. Dippé grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, after his family moved
there in 1960. When Dippé was 5, he persuaded his mother to take him
to see the 1958 horror film The Fly. The film's transformation
sequences impressed the child, who would grow an interest in visual
effects. He left home at 17 for college, earning a Ph.D in computer
graphics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. In 1988,
he went to Industrial Light & Magic as some friends of his were hired
to do the computer-generated imagery for The Abyss. Dippé wrote most
of the code that created a photorealistic pseudopod built out of
seawater, which was mostly animated by Steve 'Spaz' Williams. Dippé's
later work included the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and the
dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, which were rendered in computer graphics
after a successful demo made by Williams and Dippé. Dippé, Williams
and Clint Goldman left ILM in 1997, forming production companies Pull
Down Your Pants and Complete Pandemonium. The former was a production
company in Dippé's directorial debut, the comic book adaptation
Spawn, and the latter created various television commercials in the
following years.He is co-founder of The Animation Picture Company.
and visual effects supervisor. He has directed numerous films from
1997 to the present day, starting with Spawn.Mark Earnest Dippé was
born in Japan to a Chinese mother and an American father, both of whom
worked for the United States Army. At the age of two, the Dippés
moved back to the United States, where his father was discharged from
the Army. Dippé grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, after his family moved
there in 1960. When Dippé was 5, he persuaded his mother to take him
to see the 1958 horror film The Fly. The film's transformation
sequences impressed the child, who would grow an interest in visual
effects. He left home at 17 for college, earning a Ph.D in computer
graphics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. In 1988,
he went to Industrial Light & Magic as some friends of his were hired
to do the computer-generated imagery for The Abyss. Dippé wrote most
of the code that created a photorealistic pseudopod built out of
seawater, which was mostly animated by Steve 'Spaz' Williams. Dippé's
later work included the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and the
dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, which were rendered in computer graphics
after a successful demo made by Williams and Dippé. Dippé, Williams
and Clint Goldman left ILM in 1997, forming production companies Pull
Down Your Pants and Complete Pandemonium. The former was a production
company in Dippé's directorial debut, the comic book adaptation
Spawn, and the latter created various television commercials in the
following years.He is co-founder of The Animation Picture Company.
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