timdiggerm said:
https://bsky.app/profile/brandon.insertcredit.com/post/3mwtiwrtus22l
This guy went to Phil Tippet’s studio’s bankruptcy auction and bought a folder full of CDs. He has uploaded them as ISOs to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/!!-tippett-2014-history-inspirations-overview-video.iso
Without exhaustively browsing, the only ISO with Star Wars material is browsable at https://ia600107.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/8/items/tippett-archive/!!-tippett-slides-star-wars.iso or downloadable (WARNING THIS LINK DOWNLOADS A 2.1 GB FILE) here
It is a lot of photos.
This is just amazing - nice one on the heads-up for this - and also the links to the 2.1gb Star Wars folder. 👍
Also kudos and credit to the person who bought the files - and then very kindly shared them via the Internet Archive. 🙌
It appears the ‘Tippet Archive’ on the Internet Archive project has just found some deserved press attention as well:-
‘The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive.’
filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-animated-materials-appears-online
www.avclub.com/gji-phil-tippett-animation-stuido-work-saved-from-liquidation
The quality of the photos, and the detail within, really highlight Phil Tippett’s superb and impressive work on the film; the Chess Set folder, the 2 Cantina folders, the Eyeball, the SWI folder - and even the bonus ‘Piranha’ film folder. 😃
Also content such as this…

The whole 49.6gb ‘Tippett Archive’ is available: https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive (+ description & non-Star Wars videos).
A ‘file directory’ list of the various content can be found: https://archive.org/download/tippett-archive
^ It is well worth checking out for any OT / ‘old school’ film fan - I know what I’m spending my free time this weekend doing!