Asaph Fipke is a writer/director/producer and the creator of the animated series Storm Hawks

Storm Hawks

Storm Hawks is an animated television series created by Asaph "Ace" Fipke and made by Nerd Corps Entertainment in conjunction with Cartoon Network and YTV. It premiered on Cartoon Network on May 25, 2007. It started to air on YTV in September 2007. It started to air on Cartoon Network in the UK on...

, which is made by the animation studio he co-founded, Nerd Corps Entertainment

Nerd Corps Entertainment

Nerd Corps Entertainment is a Canadian computer animation studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, founded by former Mainframe Entertainment producers Asaph Fipke and Chuck Johnson in 2002. The studio is best known for producing the animated series Dragon Booster, as well as Storm Hawks...

, in cooperation with Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network

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 and YTV.

Fipke has worked on computer animation

Computer animation

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 projects for well over a decade, starting with his employment at Mainframe Entertainment

Mainframe Entertainment

Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the...

, where he worked on series such as Beast Wars

Beast Wars

Transformers: Beast Wars is a Transformers toyline released by Hasbro between 1995 and 2000, and a Daytime Emmy Award winning full-CG animated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996...

 (as associate producer) and Beast Machines

Beast Machines

Beast Machines is an animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures. Hasbro has the full distribution rights to the show as of 2011. It was a direct sequel to Beast Wars taking place within the continuity of the original Transformers series...

 (as producer and supervising production designer). In addition, he worked on productions for ReBoot

ReBoot

ReBoot is a Canadian CGI-animated action-adventure cartoon series that originally aired from 1994 to 2001. It was produced by Vancouver-based production company Mainframe Entertainment, Alliance Communications, BLT Productions and created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace,...

, the 2000 series of Action Man, the TV adaption of Heavy Gear, Max Steel

Max Steel

Max Steel is a science fiction–action, CGI, animated series which originally aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002, based on the Mattel action-figure of the same name. Max Steel ran for three seasons, totaling thirty-five episodes with a predicted audience of young males from the ages of...

 and Barbie in the Nutcracker

Barbie in the Nutcracker

Barbie in the Nutcracker is a 2001 computer animated and motion capture-based direct-to-video Barbie film directed by Owen Hurley. It was the first Barbie film since 1987's Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World...

.

In 2002, Fipke founded Nerd Corps Entertainment

Nerd Corps Entertainment

Nerd Corps Entertainment is a Canadian computer animation studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, founded by former Mainframe Entertainment producers Asaph Fipke and Chuck Johnson in 2002. The studio is best known for producing the animated series Dragon Booster, as well as Storm Hawks...

 in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, along with fellow animation producer Chuck Johnson. The company's first animated series, Dragon Booster

Dragon Booster

Dragon Booster is a Canadian animated series first broadcast in 2004. It follows the story of young Artha Penn, a stable boy who rides Beaucephalis , the dragon of legend...

, won Fipke a Gemini Award

Gemini Award

The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...

 for Best Animation Program or Series in 2005 and a Leo Award

Leo Awards

The Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry, celebrating excellence in artistic achievement. Held each May in Vancouver, Canada, the Leo Awards honour nominees and winners in 13 program categories and up to 19 craft categories...

 nomination in the same category in 2006.

External links

• Nerd Corps Entertainment profile
• Asaph Fipke at the Internet Movie Database
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