Dippé (/dɪˈpeɪ/;[2] born November 9, 1956) is a Japanese-born American film director and visual effects supervisor.
[3] Mark Earnest Dippé was born in Japan to a Chinese mother and an American father, both of whom worked for the United States Army.
[4] Dippé wrote most of the code that created a photorealistic pseudopod built out of seawater, which was mostly animated by Steve 'Spaz' Williams.
[6] Dippé, Williams and Clint Goldman left ILM in 1997, forming production companies Pull Down Your Pants and Complete Pandemonium.
[7] 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.