TED "safe" Trailer!

so this is the greenband trailer for TED - again, the latest movie we wrapped up @ Tippett - CAN'T WAAAAAIIITT!!
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* i've got a handful of shots in this trailer, if you care (mom)
bong-smoking @ 0:31
in the car @ 1:00
"hey thomas" @ 1:01
hooker-introductions @ 1:20
"chevron card" @ 1:27
quick can-smash @ 2:09

TED Trailer!

the first trailer for TED, the movie we most recently wrapped on @ Tippett, has finally been released. this is a restricted trailer, so you probably won't want to play it if you've got your kids in the room - it may have a teddy bear, but this movie is a major R.

i had such a blast working on this film, and i really can't wait for it to hit the theaters!
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*the shot of ted smoking his bong @ 1:11 is mine

TED - Interview w/ Seth Macfarlane & Mark Whalberg

IGN just posted a little video interview with Seth and Mark, giving a basic synopsis on TED, the movie we just finished up @ Tippett.

Sounds like the test screening last night went over incredibly well - It was such a fun project to work on, and I can't wait for it to finally come out!!

First Reveal of TED @ SXSW

seth macfarlane revealed the first footage and a teaser poster for TED at SXSW this week. this is the movie we're currently wrapping up on at Tippett, and i'm ssssoooooooo excited for this one to finally hit the screens.

check the article out here

*another sxsw interview with macfarlane here

Valentine for my Sweetums

this is my valentine card for jess - a play on the old mickey mouse title cards

Mini Turtle Power

i was trying to work on something else, and i couldn't get this damn little turtle out of my head - so now maybe i can concentrate on other things :P

i also wanted to give him a tail, but no matter what i did, it kept looking like a deformed little.. member - soooo, the turtle is tail-less.
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*updated to include colored version

Drive

Drive was probably one of my favorite movies of 2011 - a beautiful, slow boil with brutal payoff. we had some of the soundtrack playing earlier in the night, and it made me want to do something with the movie - this is the "driver" donning that creepy stunt-man mask.
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*updated - replaced the crowbar with hammer, altered the face a bit

Digital Media World talks about Tippett's Wolves

another article on Tippett's wolf-work for Breaking Dawn pt.1 - this time from Digital Media World. check it out here

Drawaholic - Pugulator

"RAWR, snort.."

had to mix a pug and an alligator this week

Mutant Land: Featured in fxguide

fxguide posted a great article about Mutant Land - there's an interview with Phil and an awesome look in to the process of the short, and how it came to be.

check it out here!

Breaking Dawn - Wolf Featurette

a little while back, i posted a link to a podcast with eric leven (cg supervisor) and hans brekke (lead animator) - this is a video clip from a portion of that interview, going over a bit of the process for the lumberyard sequence in breaking dawn pt1

TEST

testing..

Mutant Land

..no longer exclusively shown through AICN, Mutant Land is now streaming on the open web. if you haven't already checked it out, this is a short that we did at Tippett Studio a couple years back:

MutantLand from Tippett Studio on Vimeo.

TMNT Munny - Gettin' Lit

Chris Morley and Tom Gibbons over at Tippett used my little turtle to set up some lights in order to take photos of everyone's munny-pieces from the holiday party:

munny, munny, munny MUUUUNNY

this weekend was the Tippett Studio holiday party, and @ last year's shindig some of us started a little competition, taking some blank dunnies and turning them in to whatever our hearts desired. it was an awesome little addition to the already fun times. this year we decided to continue it, but step it up to the larger munny figures.

the turnout was AWESOME this year, and we had a full designated wall to display them this time around, so it actually felt like a small art gallery when you entered the room. there were some truly great pieces this year, and i'm hoping that stirs people up and this will become an even larger event in the years to come.

this year i decided to do a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. and i left him without a weapon, so he could be any turtle i wanted him to be (the originals all had red bandannas, so no that's not necessarily raphael) - i unfortunately didn't remember to take very many photos of my progress, but i did get a few and wanted to post 'em up!

munny > primer > super sculpey > baked @ 275 for 15 min > acrylic > varnish > fabric-store scraps > DONE!