Phil Tippett

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Phil Tippett
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• Movie director
• Visual effects supervisor and producer
• Known for his creature and characters

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How he got started

• Bachelor degree in art at University of
  California
• Animation studio Cascade Pictures

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Early Works

• 1978 was head of Industrial lights and magic
• Starwars Empire strikes back
• Used stop motion
• 1983 co-developed Go-Motion animation technique
  for Dragonslaye
• Hired for Robocop, led to collaboration with
  Craig Hayes

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Stop - Motion
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Tippett Studio

• Left Industrial lights and magic
• Set up studio in his garage
• Experimental film Prehistoric Beast
• CBS documentary Dinosaurs
• Emmy for Special Visual Effects

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Later works

• Selected by Steven Speilberg to supervise
  animation for Jurassic Park
• Development of Tippett Studios Craig Hayes of
  Digital Input Device
• Transition from stop-motion to computer generated
  animation
• Hired for science fiction Starship Trooper
  resulted in being named co-director for battle
  sequence

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Later Productions

• Realized dream of developing own film during
  partnership with Ed Neumeier on Starship Trooper
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• 2006 wrote afterword for Sculpting the Galaxy
  Inside the Star Wars Model Shop reference book

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Filmography

• Prehistoric Beast
• Dinosaurs
• Robocop
• Honey I shrunk the kids
• Ghost Busters II
• Jurassic Park
• Cats and Dogs
• The Ring
• The Matrix Revolutions
• Hellboy
• Constantine
• Pirates of the Carrabean Dead Mans Chest
• Cloverfield
• TwilightNew Moon

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Sources

• http//www.imdb.com/name/nm0864138/
• http//starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Phil_Tippett
• http//www.tippett.com/
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPW0YOYvTB8k
• http//vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id12380383