Tippett Studio

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Tippett Studio is an Academy Award-winning visual effects company specializing in computer-generated imagery (CGI) for movies and television commercials. Animation pioneer Phil Tippett founded the studio in 1984 as a place where artists and filmmakers could come together to create fantastic images of enormous complexity and beauty while maintaining a non-corporate, hands-on, filmmaker-friendly environment with his partners Jules Roman and Craig Hayes.

Tippett Studio has created visual effects and animations on over 50 feature films and commercials, garnering multiple Academy Awards nominations, and one win for Jurassic Park, four Clio awards for the Carl & Ray Blockbuster commercials, and two Emmy Awards for Dinosaur! and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.

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[edit] History

Tippett Studio first began as a stop-motion animation company, designing and building live action props for movies like RoboCop, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Ghost and RoboCop 2. In 1991, Tippett Studio embraced the change to computer-generated imagery for Jurassic Park by developing the Digital Input Device (DID). Designed by Craig Hayes, the DID was an important new effects technology which places computer-linked sensors into the moving joints of three dimensional, articulated character models. This innovation earned Craig a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award and the work on Jurassic Park earned the studio an Oscar. Creature animation work for Coneheads was the last stop-motion puppet project done by this company.

1997 saw the release of Starship Troopers, at the time Tippett Studio’s biggest project, with over 500 effects scenes. Phil Tippett co-directed, with Paul Verhoeven, the large-scale battle sequences. The studio doubled in size to digitally animate and composite hundreds of creature shots for the film. The groundbreaking work resulted in another Academy Award nomination for Tippett Studio.

Early in 2000 the studio re-teamed with Paul Verhoeven on Hollow Man. Craig Hayes co-supervised the creation of the invisible Sebastian whose outline becomes visible in steam, rain, water and even blood. The outstanding visual effects was recognized with another Academy Award nomination.

Today, Tippett Studio is currently in production on multiple commercial projects as well as two feature films – Enchanted for Disney and The Spiderwick Chronicles for Paramount. The studio is made up of 160 employees and located in Berkeley, California.

[edit] Motion Picture Filmography

[edit] Commercial Credits List

  • 2006 Milka Chocolate: Grainwave
  • 2006 Milka Chocolate: Tender Moment
  • 2006 Milka Chocolate: Christmas
  • 2006 Milka Chocolate: Easter
  • 2006 Quaker State: Entrance Ramp
  • 2005 Chevy Impala: Arrival
  • 2005 Chevy Impala: Mirror
  • 2005 Chevy Impala: Savannah
  • 2005 Milka Chocolate: Eagle
  • 2005 Milka Chocolate: Downhill
  • 2005 Chevy: Record
  • 2005 Quaker State: You Get What You Paid For
  • 2004 Nine Lives: New Master
  • 2004 Kibbles 'n Bits: Dance
  • 2004 Kibbles 'n Bits: Steak
  • 2004 Sirius Satellite Radio: Head Out The Window
  • 2004 Sirius Satellite Radio: Santa
  • 2003 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Hair in Curlers"
  • 2003 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Freedom Pass Out"
  • 2003 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Goodbye"
  • 2003 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Tunnel"
  • 2004 Kibbles 'n Bits: Chair
  • 2002 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Gotta Dance"
  • 2002 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Tricks"
  • 2002 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Kung Fu"
  • 2002 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Prima Donna"
  • 2002 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Rabbit Ears"
  • 2002 Blockbuster: Carl & Ray "Mouse Click"
  • 2002 Capital One: Mailbox
  • 2002 Capital One: Troll

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] FILM

  • 2000: Hollow Man - Academy Award Nomination - Best Visual Effects
  • 1997: Starship Troopers - Academy Award Nomination - Best Visual Effects
  • 1995: Dragonheart - Academy Award Nomination - Best Visual Effects
  • 1993: Jurassic Park - Academy Award - Best Visual Effects
  • 1988: Willow - Academy Award Nomination - Best Visual Effects
  • 1985: Dinosaur! - Emmy Award - Best Visual Effects
  • 1984: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor - Emmy Award - Best Visual Effects
  • 1983: Return of the Jedi - Academy Award - Best Visual Effects
  • 1982: Dragonslayer - Academy Award Nomination - Best Visual Effects

[edit] COMMERCIALS

  • 2002: Blockbuster Video, Carl & Ray: Kung Fu - Clio Award, Gold - Computer Animation
  • 2002: Blockbuster Video, Carl & Ray: Gotta Dance - Clio Award, Bronze - Computer Animation
  • 2002: Blockbuster Video, Carl & Ray: Prima Donna - Clio Award, Bronze - Computer Animation
  • 2002: Blockbuster Video, Carl & Ray: Kung Fu - Clio Award, Bronze - Visual Effects

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