About Mark A.Z. Dippé
Born 1956. Mark A.Z. Dippé is an American film director, screenwriter, director, film producer and special effect.
Mark A.Z. Dippé (; born November 9, 1956) is a Japanese-born American film director and visual effects supervisor. He made his directorial debut in 1997 with Spawn. 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, 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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Who is Mark A.Z. Dippé?
American film director
When was Mark A.Z. Dippé born?
Mark A.Z. Dippé was born on 9 November 1956 in Alaska, Tokyo.
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Mark A.Z. Dippé is a film director, screenwriter, director, film producer and special effect.
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Mark A.Z. Dippé is American.
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