Phil Tippett

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Phil Tippett is a movie director and an award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation. Although uncredited, Tippett portrayed the character of Myo in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.[1]

Biography

Phil Tippett with a tauntaun model

Phil Tippett with a tauntaun model

In 1978, Phil Tippett headed the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) animation department with Jon Berg for Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. Tippett used stop motion to animate Imperial walkers and the tauntaun. By 1983, Tippett led the famed Lucasfilm creature shop for Return of the Jedi, for which he was awarded an Oscar in 1984.

In 2006, Tippett wrote the afterword for the Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop reference book.

Tippett worked on the Karthon Chop Fields in the second season of the series Star Wars: The Mandalorian, and also helped design the ruins of Mandalore in third season.[2]

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Mandell, Paul. 1978. "Rick Baker, Doug Beswick, Laine Liska—2nd Unit Makeup Cantina." Cinefantastique Double Issue Vol6No4/Vol7No1: p66–71.
  2. ↑ YouTube Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni talk 'Mandalorian' Season 3, tease new Baby Yoda reveals on the official Yahoo Entertainment YouTube channel (backup link)

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