EXCLUSIVE: Gary Mundell has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at Tippett Studio, the award-winning effects studio founded by two-time Academy Award winner Phil Tippett.
The industry vet takes over the role previously held by Sanjay Das, who now serves as CEO.Prior to his promotion, Mundell served as an executive producer and Head of Production at the studio, overseeing its operations and producing several of its large-scale projects.
The expert in pipelines and software for production also previously co-founded Berkeley’s Loft Software—a company building asset control tools for global real-time film, games and commercial production—and served as its CEO.
He was a founder of the open-source workflow platform and digital asset management system Southpawtech/TACTIC, and supported the creation and development of computer graphics application Maya at Alias/Wavefront.“Gary Mundell has filled a position sorely needed at my company,” said Tippett. “In the short time he’s been here, he’s implemented practices that have improved the studio immensely.
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