Today, Tomorrows Technologies

In the world of Fine Arts and Liberal Arts, you would never believe a collision of innovation and technology would occur. Mr. Marc Thorpe is at this intersection, he is the creator, founder, and promoter of Robot Wars. An international show featuring radio-controlled fighting robots. He is also the creative genius involved with the special effects seen in many major movies such as Star Wars, Return of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Batteries Not Include to name a few feature films he contributed. T3 has the privilege to discuss the evolution of the fighting robots with the creator of the first combat robot show. We will discuss how did his career get started in the early 1990s? What inspired him to pursue his dreams? What made it possible for him to be at the center of movie magic creating special effects in many of the major films we have come to love and how did innovation and technology inspire him to create these spectacular special effects?