Legendary VFX Artist Phil Tippett Is Launching a New Film and TV Production Label — GeekTyrant

Phil Tippett, the legendary VFX artist who has labored on movies corresponding to Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Willow, RoboCop, and extra, is launching a brand new movie and TV manufacturing label known as Tippett Productions.

The Canadian-based enterprise is seeking to produce movie and TV tasks from a roster of animation and VFX artists, together with a number of IPs created Tippett, who most lately labored on the crazy-ass stop-motion movie Mad God.

Tippett Canada President Gary Mundell, who additionally serves as California-based Tippett Studio’s COO, is heading up the brand new manufacturing firm with Toronto-based Colin Geddes of Extremely 8 Photos.

Tippett Productions shall be led by Geddes and his companion, writer-producer Katarina Gligorijevic, who will work intently with Mundell and different members of the Tippett group on the primary slate of tasks.

Mundell stated in an announcement: “As a visible results firm, Tippett Studio is constantly on the high of its sport, with tasks like The E book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, Locke and Key and others. However we’re additionally keen to construct on the unimaginable momentum we’ve achieved with Mad God and increase into making extra of our personal unique content material. With Phil’s inventive imaginative and prescient and the group we’ve assembled, this appears like the subsequent pure evolution of the Tippett model.”

Geddes stated: “It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Phil, Gary and all the Tippett group. We’re extremely excited for this new stage of our partnership.”

Tippett added: “It is a nice time for the corporate and I’m very excited to increase into unique content material with Gary and Colin and the remainder of the group.”

I’m wanting ahead to seeing what tasks come out of this new manufacturing firm.

Supply: Deadline