Return of the Jedi creature designer's LSD trip report

VFX pioneer Phil Tippett, creator of Jabba the Hutt's pet Rancor, dropped acid during the production of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi:

"I took LSD when I was working on Return of the Jedi. I could communicate with my cat Brian, and Brian took me on a journey.

"I crawled into this cupboard with Brian the cat and we went to the centre of the Earth for like three billion years and I was just in this world of molecules. It was fine, it was very calming.

"I decided to go back to work and I was at ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) and I walked into the blue screen stage and it's huge - everything's just super illuminated bright blue - and it was just like 'Aaaah, I took like way too much.''

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