Phil Tippett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Phil Tippett
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Sep 27, 1951(1951-09-27)
Age	73
Birthplace	Berkeley
Country	United States
Birth City	Berkeley
Horoscope	Capricorn

Phil Tippett Biography

Phil Tippett is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on September 27, 1951 in Berkeley, Berkeley, United States. Phil Tippett (born September 27, 1951 in Berkeley, California) is an American movie director and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation. Over his career, he has assisted ILM and DreamWorks, and in 1984 formed his own company, Tippett Studio. His work has appeared in movies such as the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop. He is currently involved with his ongoing Mad God stop-motion series, which were funded through Kickstarter.

In 1991, Tippett was hired to create the dinosaur effects for the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jurassic Park using his go motion technique made famous in the film Dragonslayer. However, Dennis Muren and his CGI team at Industrial Light & Magic created animated test footage of a T. rex that Spielberg loved.

During 1997–98, Tippett supervised animation and effects for Universal’s Virus and Disney’s My Favorite Martian. In 1998–99 he and Craig Hayes co-supervised the visual effects on Jan De Bont’s The Haunting, for DreamWorks. Under Tippett and Hayes’ lead, Tippett Studio created over 100 complex effects shots that expressed the horrific character of the house and the spirits that live there.

In 2000, Tippett joined director Ivan Reitman as the visual effects supervisor on the DreamWorks science fiction comedy Evolution. In just under a year, Tippett Studio designed, realized and animated over 17 extraterrestrial creatures in 175 shots.

In 1986, producer Jon Davison hired Tippett to create the animated robot sequences for RoboCop. The ED-209 stop-motion model was animated by Tippett but designed by Craig Hayes (also known as Craig Davies), who also built the full size models. As one of the setpieces of the movie, the ED-209’s look and animated sequences were under the close supervision of director Paul Verhoeven, who sometimes acted out the robot’s movements himself. ED 209 was voiced by producer Jon Davison. This project became the start of a long and successful collaboration between Davies and Tippett.

Phil Tippett Net Worth

Phil Tippett is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phil Tippett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1975, while still working at Cascade Pictures, Phil Tippett and Jon Berg were hired by George Lucas at Industrial Light & Magic to create a stop-motion miniature chess scene for the original Star Wars film. When Star Wars was being released on theatres, in 1977, Tippett was approached by Joe Dante and Jon Davison to create the fish for Roger Corman’s Piranha (released in 1978, although Tippett was not credited in the film). That year, 1978, Tippett headed the ILM animation department with Jon Berg for The Empire Strikes Back (released in 1980). For this film, Tippett co-developed the animation technique called go motion to animate the sinister AT-AT Imperial Walkers and the hybrid alien tauntauns. In 1981, Tippett continued using go motion for Dragonslayer, and received his first Academy Award nomination for the extraordinarily realistic dragon animation. By 1983, Tippett led the famed Lucasfilm creature shop for Return of the Jedi for which he was awarded his first Oscar in 1984.

In 1984, Tippett Studio was born when Tippett left ILM and set up a studio in his garage to create a 10-minute experimental film called Prehistoric Beast. The realism of the dinosaurs it depicted and the film’s reflection of contemporary scientific theory led to the 1985 CBS animated documentary Dinosaur!. The next year, in 1986, Dinosaur! earned Tippett Studio its first award, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, for the animated dinosaur sequences.

In 1995, Tippett Studio was hired to create the giant, hostile alien arachnids in Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s classic science fiction novel Starship Troopers. Tippett marshaled a team of 100 animators, model makers, computer artists and technicians and expanded his all-CGI facility. Because of the intensity of his involvement, and his ability to pre-visualize the hordes of teeming arachnids, Verhoeven has credited Tippett with co- directing the large-scale battle sequences for the film. The excellence of this work resulted in Tippett’s sixth nomination in 1997 for an Academy Award.

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Who did stop motion for RoboCop?

The first of numerous collaborations between Phil Tippett and director Paul Verhoeven, Robocop showcased now-classic stop-motion animation sequences by the brutal, hulking robot unit ED-209, which was designed by Craig Hayes and built and animated by Phil and the Tippett crew.

Is Mad God finished?

After 30 years, Phil Tippett’s stop-motion opus Mad God is finally complete. The animator’s long-awaited fusion of handmade sci-fi and horror will premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

How long is Phil Tippett Mad God?

1h 25m

Is Phil Tippett Mad God out?

Mad God is a stop motion animated horror film written, produced and directed by Phil Tippett. Completed in 2021, the film was filmed over a period of 30 years. The film is set to be released on Shudder on June 16, 2022.

Who did the special effects for RoboCop?

Rob Bottin
Born| April 1, 1959 El Monte, California, United States
Occupation| Special make-up effects creator
Years active| 1976–2014
Height| 6 ft 5 in (196 cm)