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

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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!

MUTANT LAND Goes Live

Ain't It Cool has posted up the first public link to a short that we did a while back @ Tippett Studio (I was lucky enough to jump in at the end of it). Mutant Land is loosely based on the world of Mutant World by Jan Strnad & Richard Corben. It would be pretty great to get this developed in to a full feature..

check out the short here

Breaking Dawn - Podcast

here's a nice little podcast with fxguide, talking to both our cg supe Eric Leven and lead animator Hans Brekke. Eric gives a nice run down on the over all process for Tippett's work on the wolves - and about halfway through Hans goes over some of the process for developing the lumber yard sequence.

check it out here!

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Opening Week

Breaking Dawn is out this week! The latest in the Twilight series. Tippett Studio, is of course in charge of the wolves for this franchise, and i had a blast animating them (and rippin' up some vampires). can't wait to see our latest work up on the screen!

Tippett in the News: Immortals

an interview in AWN talking about Tippett's work in Immortals; which just came out last week, and is doing really well in the box office thus far.

here's the link

Tippett Studio in the News

so a couple weeks ago, the Bay Area news program Eye on the Bay had a special on films in the east bay - and one of the main places they covered was Tippett Studio! They give you a super simplified look at the studio and it's history, and talk a bit with Phil himself.

wait until about 1:50 in the video to see the Tippett Coverage (and if you wait until about 4:33, you'll get a quick glimpse of my work buddy Robert Alves, and myself, workin' away)



and HERE is a link to the video, in case the embedded one craps out