Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Behind the Scenes of how we at Tippett Studio researched, reconstructed, reanimated and resurrected the original 1977 Star Wars chess set puppets for a few shots in 2015's The Force Awakens. As Phil says, "What took two guys two weeks in 1977, took 12 people 12 months 35 years later..." A total honor and a total blast to work on.

Jurassic World

Worked with Phil Tippett (original Dinosaur Supervisor on Jurassic Park) to block out raptor behavior and animation. So fun to fill this previz out with audio and help it drop right into early edits of the film...

The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn 1

Here's a behind the scenes featurette on Tippett's CGI wolves for The Twilight Saga. I edited this featurette and the sequences for the film.

The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn 2

A look behind the wolves of the last installment of The Twilight Saga.

TED

Here's how we put Ted together for Seth McFarlane's 2012 directorial debut...

TED - 2013 Oscars

Here's Ted and Mr. Wahlberg introducing the nominees for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing (which ended in a tie!! The one outcome we had not planned for…) Such a mixed blessing that Tippett's vfx achievement that night was overshadowed by Rhythm and Hues' untimely win and loss…

TED - Jimmy Kimmel Live!​

Ted appears as a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show...

Immortals

Here's how we made the super-slo-mo titans from Tarsem Singh's Immortals

MAD GOD

I'm lucky enough to have worked on a hallucinogenic series of stop-motion shorts from the dreams of Phil Tippett.