About Tippett Studio Video Production company in Berkeley, United States
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Tippett Studio is a premier full-service animation and visual effects production company helmed by two-time Oscar and Emmy award winner Phil Tippett and staffed by designers supervisors animators and producers dedicated to the delivering premium visual effects at a competitive price. From hands-on stop-motion animation to bleeding edge computer graphics our Berkeley California studio services clients from around the world and has a reputation for excellence and customer satisfaction.
Tippett Studio is proud to have be honored by our peers in a variety of forums.
Phil Tippett has received the prestigious George Melies Award for Pioneering in the realm of Visual Effects by the Visual Effects Society as well as this highest festival honors at the German Film Museum of Frankfurt among others.
Tippett Studio is proud to have be honored by our peers in a variety of forums.
Phil Tippett has received the prestigious George Melies Award for Pioneering in the realm of Visual Effects by the Visual Effects Society as well as this highest festival honors at the German Film Museum of Frankfurt among others.
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Phil Tippett is the founder and namesake of Tippett Studio. His varied career in visual effects has spanned more than 40 years and includes 2 Academy Awards 6 Academy Award nominations 1 BAFTA 4 BAFTA nominations 2 Emmys and the advent of modern digital effects in motion pictures.
Phil Tippett is the founder and namesake of Tippett Studio. His varied career in visual effects has spanned more than 40 years and includes 2 Academy Awards 6 Academy Award nominations 1 BAFTA 4 BAFTA nominations 2 Emmys and the advent of modern digital effects in motion pictures.
As a child of seven Phil was profoundly inspired by Ray Harryhausens stop-motion classic The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and by Willis OBriens classic character King Kong. His subsequent devotion to the creation of the fantastic creatures in film has become his raison detre. As a kid and then as a student always drawing sculpting and making animations he developed his skills in a broader context first with a Fine Arts degree from University of California Irvine then as an animator at the commercial house Cascade Pictures Los Angeles. As a young adult Phil sought out teachers and mentors establishing connections and friendships with Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury.
At Cascade in the early 70s traditional effects: hanging miniatures stop motion animation rear screen projection forced perspective were used to enhance a variety of commercials: Pillsbury Doughboy Jolly Green Giant etc. It was there in the playful atmosphere of that rough workshop/stage in the center of Hollywood that Phil Tippett Dennis Muren and Ken Ralston cut their teeth in the world of VFX inspired and egged on by Tex Avery the great animator and their boss and mentor Phil Kellison. At the time of this apprenticeship visual effects was a little regarded wing of the motion picture business but it was to become one of the most influential and game changing aspects of filmmaking.
In 1977 Phil was approached by Joe Dante and Jon Davison to create the viscous fish for Roger Cormans Piranha. It was a lesson in low budget seat of the pants filmmaking and cemented a bond between Phil and Jon.
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