Great news!
You can go to Star Wars Celebration in your pajamas.
Finally.
Not us though.
We need to wear real clothes.
YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME THOUGH
This week on the Star Wars Show!
The animation supervisor for Rogue One, Hal Hickel!
We check out a Star Wars Variety Show!
And much, much more.
Now, from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s the Star Wars Show!
Hey I’m Anthony Carboni And I’m Andi Gutierrez, welcome to the Star
Wars Show.
The show that is completely PANICKING because there are only 22 days left till Celebration!
(Screaming) Let’s go to the news.
Less of a panic, more of a Greek chorus.
They cleared out quickly.
Well, they have a show to keep shooting.
And seeing that we’re mere weeks away from Star Wars Celebration Orlando kicking off
we thought it would be a good time to let you know officially, that yes, The Star Wars
Show will once again be there.
The Star Wars Show will be broadcasting LIVE from show floor at Star Wars Celebration Orlando
to bring you one-on-one interviews with Star Wars Celebrities, filmmakers, fans, and more.
I am so excited.
The stream, [presented by Verizon] kicks off Thursday morning, April 13th, and will continue
throughout the weekend bringing you all of the news, information, and panels you want
to see as they happen.
Plus, it’s going to be hosted by the two of us again, and we’re bringing plenty of
surprises with us, so if you’re there, stop by our stage and say hello.
For more information about the stream check out StarWars.com.
And while we’re on the subject of Celebration, and Anthony, I think you’ll like this one
seeing as you’re a massive fan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, the Seventh Sister, will be appearing
at Star Wars Celebration, along with her husband, and voice of Kanan on Rebels, Freddie Prinze
Junior.
Do you think that because Darth Maul can come back from the dead, that maybe a Seventh Sister
can come back from the dead when she talked about that?
Sure.
The two join, previously announced guests like Vanessa Marshall, Taylor Gray, and Dave
Filoni.
I just want to talk to her about those lightsabers.
Those little weed whacker lightsabers, the Inquisitors ones that were good.
I’m sure she’ll have answers for you.
LEGO!
Has just announced a brand new Snow speeder set.
The T-47 Snowspeeder consists of 1,703 pieces, and includes a rebel snowspeeder pilot and
a snowspeeder gunner who may or may not feel like he can take on the empire by himself.
It’s not Dak.
In my head canon it is.
The kit also comes with a display stand and plaque and will make its official debut to
the public at Star Wars Celebration and will go on sale on May the 4th.
Finally this week, IDW has announced that they’ll be publishing a new book next moth
reprinting for the first time ever, the classic Star Wars newspaper comic strips from 1979-1984
in a three volume series.
The first volume which you see right here contains all 575 sequential comic strips from
March 11, 1979-October 5th, 1980 including color Sundays.
I was flipping through it earlier, it’s a really nice book!
The first volume will be available in stores in April.
And for more Star Wars news from around the galaxy, check out Starwars.com.
David Collins here at the Largo Theater in Hollywood, California for the Star Wars: Join
the Resistance book release variety show.
We can promise a lot of variety, celebrities, comedy sketches, music, come on lets go check
it out!
(Star Wars Theme) I am here with co-creator of Thrilling Adventure
Hour and co-author of Star Wars: Join the Resistance, Ben Acker.
This is a bit of a surprise party for you tonight.
Well kind of, when we do an event and there are a lot of songs in it, Blacker likes to
surprise me with stuff.
I want to welcome to the stage our dear friend, Weird Al Yankovic.
“A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away” Tonight you’re playing Yoda for charity.
I’m playing Yoda for charity, we’ll see guys.
Finger crossed.
Do or do not, there is no try.
(scatting) I think its really great that people have
such reverence still for all the Star Wars movies and its really a community, its really
a family like everyone comes together in the same spirit.
The fate of Jar Jar Binks is that he has stepped away from the Galactic Senate and is now a
street performer in the streets of Naboo.
How does this sit with you?
Little bit true to life.
What do you love about events like this in particular.
Its always a good time, you know people come to an event like this to let their freak flag
fly and have a good time.
Besides enjoying pizza, you’re going to be playing some music tonight.
I am going to be playing some music tonight, I have ridiculously and foolishly agreed to
sing a few Star Wars sea shanties.
“way hay the Force is rising, way hay the Force is rising”
Now how did this book come about?
Goonies and Star Wars.
It’s a bunch of kids that join the Resistance like the title, but they’re green.
They’re screw-ups, they’re young so instead of that they get into trouble.
Its adventures and goof around in Star Wars.
“Yo yo yo Yoda!”
Remember Star Wars: Join the Resistance is out in bookstores now.
Be sure to check it out!
The captain says you are a friend, I will not kill you.
This week we are joined on the couch by ILM animation supervisor Hal Hickel.
And I just want to start off saying congratulations, you just got a very prestigious recognition
here within ILM this week.
20 Years with the company, it’s flown by.
20 years, its crazy.
What has changed here over the past 20 years?
You know it’s interesting, all the technology has changed but the job of the animator, that
job hasn’t changed a whole lot.
There are new techniques like motion capture and facial motion capture for creating characters
like we did for Alan Tudyk as K2.
With the advances in technology and what you can do with computer animation, where do you
find the line between keeping things really Star Wars-y but also pushing things forward.
That was the tricky thing, it was really exciting to get to add a new droid and Gareth was very
keen to explore how we might make him more expressive in his face.
And we tried a bunch of different things including moving mouth parts and different things, but
ultimately, none of things felt like they fit.
One thing we did keep was the ability to rotate his eyes which is something we hadn’t seen
in Star Wars droids before.
And that helped communicate thinking more than anything else.
You also worked with Neal Scanlon, can you tell me a little bit about that process?
We got to collaborate with him on creature mainly because that creatures role kind of
changed a little bit from it’s inception and this was Bor Gullet.
They built Bor Gullet originally to kind of sit in a corner with the tentacles reaching
out to do it’s interrogating but it was decided later to have a grander entrance for
Bor Gullet.
And so we had to graft on a bigger CG body with bigger tentacles but the head of it and
the close-ups of the eyes and things are still Neal’s group.
When you saw Star Wars, the story goes that you wrote Gary Kirtz your plot for a sequel,
correct?
Yeah I heard they were going to make a sequel and I sent this letter off and a little while
back I got a very kind, type written letter from Gary Kirtz’s assistant, Bunny Alsup.
It was very sweet, she personally answered my letter and it was on this very cool Ralph
McQuarrie letter head It kind of sunk in later how cool it was.
And you held on to it? I held onto it and when we finished making Phantom Menace, George signed it.
underlined "talent" and "luck" and said, you have it.
Sort of closing a very large circle for me.
That's wonderful, that's a great story
What do you think is kind of a trait that someone needs to have to be successful in
your career path?
Don’t wait to be invited.
Or for the perfect situation.
In other words, people will put off starting animation until they’re in the perfect animation
program that they wanted to get into.
Or they have some piece of equipment that they didn’t have before, a more powerful
computer or a better camera.
Don’t put it off.
Don’t wait for the perfect opportunity, just get on with it and do it.
Well thank you so much for coming by, this was a lot of fun.
Andi, can we talk briefly about last week’s episode of Rebels.
Oh you mean the part where Maul finally died?
Spoilers!
It’s been a week.
He’s not getting any deader.
That’s true.
The second time you die is the final death, biologists agree on this.
It’s science!
And now, to honor his legacy, we want to see your own version of Maul’s no infamous “KENOBIIIIIII!”
scream.
Take a video of yourself and submit it to us on Twitter with the hashtag KENOBIIIII,
that’s 5 I’s, 5 I’s.
Not 4 I’s, not 6 I’s, 7 is right out and we’ll show our favorites on next week’s
episode Thanks for watching and may the Force be with you.
Kenobiiiiii!
That had 6 I’s.
Wow, willing to judge, willing to set the rules.
Gutierrezzzzzz!!!
No!