iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Chris Coleman @chriscoleman.name · 01/10/2026

↪ Replying to @brandon.insertcredit.com

OK fine, since nobody else is willing to say it: That blue guy is a Duros and his name is Ohwun De Maal (I knew the species but had to look up his name).

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Ohwun De Maal

Ohwun De Maal was a Duros male who worked as a freelance flight instructor and occasional smuggler. He owned and operated several docking bays in Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine with his s...

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