History
Phil Tippett and Industrial Light & Magic created the go motion technique for the first time for some shots of the tauntaun creatures and AT-AT walkers in the 1980 Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back. After that, go motion was used for many other movies: for the dragon in Dragonslayer (1981), the dinosaurs in the prehistoric documentaries Prehistoric Beast (1984) and Dinosaur! (1985), the lord demon creature in Howard the Duck (1986), the winged satan character in The Golden Child (1986), the Eborsisk dragon in Willow (1988), the RoboCop franchise (1987–1993) and Coneheads (1993). Other minor sequences using go motion appeared in films like the three first Indiana Jones installments (1981–1989), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) or the first Jurassic Park film (1993) among a few others. In 1993, with the Jurassic Park release, Tippett Studio abandoned go motion and fully converted its teams and equipments to CGI (computer-generated imagery). The last film showing a go motion made sequence was Coneheads (the Jurassic Park release dates from June 11, 1993 but Coneheads was first released on July 23, 1993).
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