High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prehistoric Beast is a ten minutes long experimental animated film fully conceived and made by Phil Tippett in 1984. This sequence is considered as being the first film produced by the Tippett Studio, founded by Tippett himself in 1984. Being made with the so called go motion animation technique Prehistoric Beast prior served to Phil Tippett to make special effects sequences for the 1985 full length documentary Dinosaur!, first aired on CBS in the United States on November 5, 1985.