Academy Awards: 1993: Jurassic Park Best Visual Effects 1983: Return of the Jedi Best Visual Effects

ts Academy Award Nominations: 1997: Starship Troopers Best Visual Effects 1995: Dragonheart Best Visual Effects 1988: Willow Best Visual Effects 1982: Dragonslayer Best Visual Effects BAFTA Awards: 1994: Jurassic Park Best Special Effects BAFTA Nominations: 1989: RoboCop Best Special Effects 1984: Return of the Jedi Best Makeup Artist Emmy Awards: 1985: Dinosaur! Emmy Award Best Visual Effects 1984: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor Emmy Award Best Visual Effects Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Awards: 1998: Starship Troopers Best Special Effects 1994: Jurassic Park Best Special Effects 1988: RoboCop Best Special Effects 1984: Return of the Jedi Best Makeup Artist Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Nominations: 1997: Dragonheart Best Special Effects 1991: RoboCop 2 Best Special Effects Satellite Awards 1998: Starship Troopers British Horror Festival 2010: MutantLand Best Short Film In the mid-1970s, Phil Tippett, a stop motion

animator inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen, was tapped by George Lucas to work on Star Wars. After creating the Chess Set sequence and participating in the Cantina scene as a member of the monster band for the seminal movie, Phil was enlisted to join Lucas when he relocated ILM from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. During Tippett's tenure at ILM he earned an enduring place in the Star Wars galaxy by animating the Imperial Walkers and Tauntaun in The Empire Strikes and then was knighted as head of the studio's creature shop for Return of the Jedi. In addition to his artistic contributions Tippett's technical ingenuity was evident with the invention of the 'Go-Motion' animation technique in 1982 a forerunner of todays computer graphic imaging. He earned his first Academy Award nomination for Dragonslayer and by 1983 received his first Oscar for Return of the Jedi. In 1984, Tippett left ILM and, along with his partner Jules Roman, founded Tippett Studio in a garage in Berkeley to create a 10-minute experimental film called Prehistoric Beast. The Emmy award winning CBS special, Dinosaur!, quickly followed it. Fast forward several decades, the company now occupies four buildings in Berkeley, employs up to 200 artists and technicians and is best known for its outstanding CG character animation work. The early days of Tippett Studio saw sequences designed, built and animated using stop-motion for movies like Robocop, with the out of control robot ED209, and later Robocop 2, with the evil mayhem created by the Cain robot. The watershed moment in visual effects (VFX) came in 1991 with Jurassic Park. Director Steven

Spielberg recruited Phil to supervise the dinosaur animation but at the same time it became obvious that stop-motion dinosaurs would give way to computer-generated (CG) creatures. (Phils initial reaction -- 'I think I'm extinct' -inspired a line in the film itself.) Tippett realized that a different kind of thinking would be required and Tippett Studio set about adapting the creature animation studio to the new realities of CG. In 1995, a fully digital Tippett Studio exploded from a crew of 25 to 200 to create the arachnid hoards for Paul Verhoevens science-fiction cult hit Starship Troopers. From there the Studios work has spanned a wide range of genres from horror fantasy in Guillermo del Toros HellBoy to family films such as Charlottes Web and Enchanted, and from the blistering demoninfested environments in Constantine to the complex Machine City in Matrix Revolutions. Working within a variety of budgets, Tippett Studio produced low-budget but high-quality work for J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield and Sam Ramis Drag Me to Hell. Working collaboratively with ILM, Tippett helped recreate writer Tony DiTerlizzis fantasy world of trolls and goblins for The Spiderwick Chronicles. Most recently the artists at Tippett Studio created the pack of snarling wolves for the latest films in the Twilight Saga New Moon and Eclipse. An excellent team of problem solving engineers and pipeline specialists support the animators, lighters, compers, roto and matchmove specialists; at its best Tippett Studio is a perfect blend of science and art. And yet behind the scenes Phil continues to conjure his alchemy with his true love of stop motion animation and miniatures in secret projects that one day will be allowed to escape into your world.

PHIL TIPPETT FILMOGRAPHY: 2011 - THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 - Summit Entertainment 2010 - THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE - Summit Entertainment 2010 - MUTANTLAND - Tippett Studio 2009 - THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Summit Entertaiment 2007 - THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES Paramount Pictures 2004 - STARSHIP TROOPERS 2 - Screen Gems 2001 - EVOLUTION - Dreamworks 1999 - BICENTENNIAL MAN - Disney 1999 - THE HAUNTING - Dreamworks 1999 - KOMODO - Sterling Home Entertainment 1999 - MY FAVORITE MARTIAN - Disney 1999 - VIRUS - Universal 1998 - PRACTICAL MAGIC - Warner Bros. 1998 - ARMAGEDDON - Disney 1997 - STARSHIP TROOPERS - Sony Pictures 1996 - DRAGONHEART - Universal 1996 - TREMORS II: AFTERSHOCKS - Universal 1995 - THREE WISHES - Rysher Ent./Savoy Pictures 1993 - JURASSIC PARK - Amblin Ent./Univer 1993 - CONEHEADS - Paramount Pictures 1993 - ROBOCOP 3 - Orion 1990 - ROBOCOP 2 - Orion 1989 - GHOSTBUSTERS II - Colmbia Tri-Star 1989 - HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS - Disney 1888 - WILLOW - MGM 1987 - ROBOCOP - Orion 1986 - GOLDEN CHILD - Paramount Pictures 1986 - HOWARD THE DUCK - Universal 1985 - EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR Lucasfilm Ltd./MGM 1985 - DINOSAUR! - CBS 1984 - EWOKS: CARAVAN OF COURAGE Lucasfilm Ltd./ABC 1984 - PREHISTORIC BEAST - Tippett Studio 1983 - RETURN OF THE JEDI - Lucasfilm Ltd.

1981 - DRAGONSLAYER - Paramount Pictures 1980 - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - Lucasfilm Ltd. 1977 - STAR WARS - Lucasfilm Ltd.