which star wars scene brings you joy as a fan uh oh this is nice okay dg quartermaine sorry
d quartermaine this is d quartermaine's question which star wars scene brings you joy as a fan and
which star wars scene brings you joy as a maker slash builder or effects person that's a good one
um joy as a fan comes from my last two favorite star wars things which would be um yeah it's um
it's uh mandalorian meeting boca tim uh with grogu in the mandalorian i that was so
so awesome to see all of those elements come together for that scene and
katie sackoff just freaking killing it she's one of my heroes uh super delightful but also like
obviously the fandom brings a level of love and expectation and they pour themselves into this
narrative the team making the mandalorian it's totally the same thing dave filoni
uh doug chang jonathan fro all those guys are they're pouring the same amount of love
as the fans have into this thing that they love and getting to watch a culmination
like that also in the same episode that you get michael bane michael bain dude
i i recognized his voice before i recognized him like i could just tell man such a great actor
um and which brings me joy so the second part of the quest that's the scene that brings me
joy as a fan which star wars thing brings you joy as a maker builder or effects person um
there there is a way in which um chewbacca and han always working on the millennium falcon
never ceases to make me feel like i could easily be a member of that crew
uh i've been saying forever no this one goes here that one goes there
i mean my land cruiser i have a 1982 sorry yeah 1982 bj 42 toyota land cruiser right hand drive
diesel from new zealand it is one of my favorite things um and i've done a ton of work on it over
the years and i will continue to do a ton of work on it and it's my millennium falcon it's
it's the it's the beast that i know it is the uh a pile of nuts and bolts that i have beaten the
hell out of and it keeps coming back for more it has both uh threatened my life and saved it
there's definitely the aspect about chewbacca that i find so compelling is
like him welding on the falcon there's a there's something so awesome about that um
it's like in television so in back in the 70s when all this was happening um star wars came
out and then immediately battle star galactica came out and battlestar galactica had to do
all the stuff that people were expecting from star wars on a fraction of the budget
with some of the original crew and effects people but still
it's television they're working on much tighter timelines and budgets and i remember there's
a scene inside the viper launch facility in the original series of battlestar galactica where you
see the lines going to the ships as if they're like gas lines but what they were just like um
chaser lights right they were just like strings of lights inside a tube and they were and i remember
being ten and being like that's not that's just a thing that's not a thing it's just a thing
in contrast to that freaking chewbacca in that hair peter mayhew in that hairy costume sitting
there with a stick welder because it's a real stick welder as far as i can tell
uh up on the set of the millennium falcon like i watched that as a kid and i watch it now and i
think yeah no i would totally be a useful member of han's crew on the on the on the falcon how
many ways are we gonna bring the falcon back into this um many years ago uh i was watching
oh yeah i was watching firefly and i was watching the behind the scenes of fireflies watching the
extra materials on the dvd and in there joss whedon was saying that firefly came about
because he was watching ken burns uh documentary on the civil war and it was making him think as
everything does about the millennium falcon and that's the way whedon put it in the video
he's like it made me think like everything does about the millennium falcon same hard saying um
vicky bly wants to know if you were to be called in to help with shipbuilding in the
current star wars universe which would you prefer to do create and build your own ship
exterior or collaborate on an interior ship set oh exterior exterior that's mostly because
i have way more experience doing ship exteriors than interiors i'm a fine designer and interior
design is definitely something that i have done but it is not my wheelhouse my wheelhouse
is the exteriors and there's another piece in here um where someone wants to know uh
nope oh yeah well charles white wanted to know what my favorite rebellion fighter craft was
and his he says his is the y-wing and the same for me i love the y-wing fighter i love how there's
no two are the same i i i built a wiring fighter for globe toys back in the in the late 90s for jim
fong and uh you know i had to just choose one in all the archived pictures that i have and i chose
one and i replicated it and i went into a meeting with lucas donated the licensing team in like
okay here pull out these books this is one this is two this is three you see this is
that one and this is that one i replicated b here and that's why these pipes move like that
um but ship exterior and the reason that i love ship exteriors is because i love
uh i love communicating story and scale with the exterior of a spaceship i love the
process of working on the large form and then sifting and going into the medium forms that
catch your eye that describe more about the story of the ship and then you sift a little deeper and
now you're going into the details on the details and then you sift another layer now you're doing
the greed leaves on the details on the details and you've sift another layer and now you're
doing the last bits of uh of final detailing which would be like i would take a bunch of strips of uh
uh ten thousand thick styrene strips and cut them into all sorts of different rectangles
and squares and i'd have this cup full of them and the bottom of a soda can filled with weld
on three and i'd have an exacto knife and i would take the exacto knife and just touch
one of the pieces of styrene that would be enough to pick it up dip it ever so slightly touch it to
the weld on three and then over at the ship like a painter just sitting there adding that last detail
all of us at island will tell you that was one of the most fun parts and it was the
last and smallest part of the build but like the most fun and then the painters bring in
all of their great expertise and they mask out the big areas and do the large color gestures
sift one level deeper all of my packages are arriving today i apologize for the sound of
my doorbell repeatedly breaking up our our live stream um yeah ship exterior not to
say that i wouldn't love to design my own cockpit that would certainly be really fun
um never say never could still happen you never have any idea um
let's see here have you ever jason cutrone uh have you ever built a sand people rifle a tuscan raider
rifle or do you have any aspirations in building the prop gun i've also heard that there is no one
design for the rifle since the rifle is a scavenged parts rifle if you did the gun
how would you approach the bill great question um i am slowly starting an exploration into a tuscan
raider costume it's definitely something i'm interested in uh and it's specifically because
i just love the mandalorian i love everything about the mandalorian but one of the things i
love most is how they keep pulling out these characters you didn't think much about and
giving them more depth and the whole idea of the of mando being able to speak to the sand people
in that like horrifying sounding language is just fantastic it humanizes them instantly and
lets us understand these cultures all intersect in different ways and they mean different things
both from the outside and from the inside uh so yeah mandalorian has definitely reinvigorated my
interest in the sand people um and i actually started a folder just a few weeks ago of
rifle pictures of tuscan raider rifles um and you're right i don't think that i mean
yeah i don't think that there's a single hero one just like the y wing fighter there is no standard
they're all kind of done the way they're done and that means i would have so much fun with it
uh yeah i would have so much fun with it i would probably lean towards
my favorite gun designs which are i think they're called wheel lock pistols and if you search online
for the ones that they have on display at the vna at the victoria and albert museum in london first
of all if you're ever in london and you haven't been to the vna you should go because it's one of
the world's great museums i go there every time i go through london um second of all if you've never
looked at a wheel locked pistol and maybe you're doing it right now online holy hell steampunk like
you look at the wheel of pistols and you think i think steampunk people are like leaving a lot
of uh aesthetic money on the table when you look at these old rifles and the ornate ways in which
they were built in the ridiculously ornate metal work it's super compelling that's absolutely the
design direction i'd probably go for one of the sad people rifles because they feel like
i mean actually there there's it feels like there's a direct lineage to me right like
it feels like this kind of 18th century weird messed up colonial thing that
generated these gun designs from the british empire and the weird colonial aspects of some of
the kind of inherent racism between the factions of the star wars universe i mean it's all i feel
like all of that's being commented on and sort of discussed within the narratives on a subtle level
um so yeah going towards the british colonial rifles seems to be completely appropriate for a
scavenged uh sand sand people rifle thank you guys so much for watching that video if you'd like to
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