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The company had been in financial trouble
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As if the closure itself, and Phil Tippett’s retirement, wasn’t sad enough news on its own, there was the fear that huge amounts of art stored in the studio was about to vanish into private collections, never to be seen again.
Key facts
- ISO image files of the 90 key, non-duplicated discs from Tippett’s archives
- There are a few clips in there that are available to view online, including test clips of CGI creatures and an interview with Phil Tippett from 2008
- The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive
- August brought with it the sad news that Tippett Studios, the Berkeley-based animation and effects house founded by Phil Tippett, was closing down
Summary
The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive. The company had been in financial trouble for a while, and as it closed its doors on the 28th of that month, decades of props, memorabilia and art was sold off in a two-day auction. There’s now happier news to report, though. “I quickly realized that some of this information wasn’t available online and might not ever be in the future in such high resolution,” the donor, who simply calls themselves ‘TippettFan’, writes. ISO image files of the 90 key, non-duplicated discs from Tippett’s archives.”