Tippett Studios, the Berkeley-based animation and effects house founded by Phil Tippett, closed its doors in August 2026 after financial difficulties, with its assets sold off in a two-day auction. Among those concerned about the closure was the potential loss of decades of artistic material stored at the studio, including work on iconic films such as Star Wars, RoboCop, and Starship Troopers. However, happier news has emerged from the auction's aftermath. An anonymous attendee who purchased a folder of CD-ROMs and other discs has digitized and uploaded the collection to the Internet Archive, where it is freely available for browsing. The donor, identifying themselves only as 'TippettFan,' explained their motivation: 'I quickly realized that some of this information wasn't available online and might not ever be in the future in such high resolution. So I purchased the disc folder and digitized all of its contents. What you have here are .ISO image files of the 90 key, non-duplicated discs from Tippett's archives.' While some materials are immediately viewable online—including test clips of CGI creatures and a 2008 interview with Phil Tippett—the bulk of the archive remains in .ISO disc image format, requiring download for full exploration. Filenames indicate contents include behind-the-scenes images from RoboCop and Starship Troopers, slides documenting Tippett's work on the original Star Wars, and unexpectedly, publicity stills from the 2004 film Catwoman. The archive represents a significant preservation effort for film history, though organizers note it 'will likely take weeks for historians and fans to comb through' the gigabytes of material now saved from potential obscurity. Addressing a technical point raised in discussion, while CD-ROMs contain digitally stored data, the donor's process of creating disk image files (.ISOs) does involve a form of digitization in the sense of transferring and preserving the exact disc contents in a new digital format for long-term archival access. The identity of TippettFan remains undisclosed, as does the complete inventory of materials still being explored within the archive. What is clear is that through this anonymous act of preservation, a substantial portion of Tippett Studios' legacy has been secured for public access rather than disappearing into private collections as initially feared following the studio's closure.