This week we’re talking Tarkin Technology turning into trophies!
Twas’ a ton of Ts in that tatement Oh god, really?
Cute!
This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Academy Award winning effects artists behind Rogue One!
We play another exciting round of Hyperspace Trivia!
And much, much more, now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hello I’m Anthony Carboni And I’m Andi Gutierrez; welcome to the Star
Wars Show, the only Star Wars show on the internet that has two academy award winners
on their couch this week.
Yeah!
That legally checks out.
Take that, television talk shows with your endless cavalcade of award winning A-list
celebrities!
Talking to you…Ellen.
We got stuff to talk about so come hang out.
Starting things off with some Celebration news, as we usually do here, one-time Star
Wars Show set decorator, and full-time protocol droid, Anthony Daniels will once again headline
his own one-man show at Celebration.
The panel, consisting of stories and Q&A from the audience will take place on Saturday,
April 15th.
I will listen to Anthony Daniels talk about anything, anytime, anywhere.
Then you should go to his panel!
Then maybe I will!
He’s going to join previously announced Celebration guests like, Billy Dee Williams,
Alan Tudyk, Matthew Wood, and Vanessa Marshall.
And this just in, the multi talented and super charming Riz Ahmed will also be in Orlando
at Celebration.
For tickets and more information, head to Star Wars Celebration.com.
Shifting over to video games, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes is adding a ton of Rebels content
this month.
There’s the Hera and Chopper packs which are currently available, a Kanan event and
pack beginning tomorrow, followed by a Zeb pack and event on the 23rd, an Ezra on the
30th, Sabine on April 6th, and the Ghost on April 13th.
Sabine and the Ghost, I am ready for this!
Jam packed.
Finally, StarWars.com had the opportunity to sit down with Charles Soule, the writer
of the upcoming Darth Vader series from Marvel, to discuss what fans can expect in the new
comic.
He went on to explain that this series will take place after Revenge of the Sith, follow
Vader as he hunts down surviving Jedi, the inquisitor program, appearances from The Emperor,
and how he constructed his iconic Red Lightsaber.
You can read the article, plus any and all star wars related news and information right
now on Star Wars.com You’ve got to admit, it’s a very good
picture of BB-8 (Chopper beeps)
Hi!
Hey Andi What are you reading?
It’s a droid thing, you really wouldn’t be interested.
(Chopper agrees) Alright then, bye!
See ya.
I didn’t mean to!
I’m terribly sorry, maybe I’ll get you a red one.
(Angry Chopper sounds) Alright…
The captain says you are a friend, I will not kill you.
Hey guys, this week we are joined on the couch by two of the amazing artists from ILM.
We’ve got Paige Warner and Brian Cantwell.
You guys were recently recognized by the Academy, you got a technological achievement award.
Was this the first Academy Award you received?
Yes!
What!
Congratulations, first of all!
Thank you very much.
That’s insane.
And the award wasn’t just for your work on Rogue One, it was for the development of
the technology as a whole.
Exactly, yeah.
Lets talk a little bit about the facial capture technology you guys worked on in Rogue One.
For us its really about getting the actor’s performance and getting the best possible
performance we can from that actor.
So they’re as comfortable on set as possible on set, so in this case Guy Henry.
Does he match, if we succeed with that then we take the next step and put it onto the
Tarkin model.
Keep going and hopefully we haven’t misted, and if we did we’ll take one-step back and
re-work forward.
It was a lot of care and attention.
One of the tools in your arsenal was actually a life cast of Peter Cushing from one of his
previous films.
“Top Secret” It was from “Top Secret”?
Yeah.
Can you tell me how that came into play with your development of his onscreen look?
John Knoll was the one that kind of stumbled upon the existence of that because I guess
it But a huge help because otherwise it would
have been all purely from reference to try and come up with what his facial shape looked
like and how to bring that through.
So to have something as a ground truth that was really accurate was definitely a big win.
A lot of the little things that all add up to what you actually remember him being
Yeah the likeness of how he looked in the final result we’d have a shot where it was
just spot on and we were really happy with it.
And then there’d be one where is head was slightly turned a different angle and it would
look just completely different.
Trying to bring that look back to get what it really looks like Tarkin, even having a
life cast and all those different references it still is a big challenge to make sure that
every shot actually looks like him.
Did you guys work on Carrie as well?
Yes!
What was that like?
It was approached a little differently which added it’s own challenges to try and a little
bit back.
They really hoped to come through with a bit of a smile in it
The amount of weight on that smile, at the end of that movie had to be the right smile.
She couldn’t look happy, right?
It was really rewarding when we heard news from Carrie after she had seen it that she
thought it was archival footage that we had manipulated her mouth and so the fact that
it wasn’t that, there was a lot more work that went into it, but it was a nice thing
to hear back.
Congratulations on your award but also on all the hard work, it’s driving movies forward
and making people really happy so we really appreciate it.
We’re here at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and it is Season of the Force.
We are about to ride Hypersapce Mountain but of course we can’t just ride the ride and
have fun.
No!
Our producer Scott would not allow us to do that .
So instead what’s going to happen is as we are riding, he is going to rapid fire read
us a bunch of Star Wars facts and then quiz us on them as we are trying to ride and listen
to him and pay attention and focus.
What could go wrong?
So many things could go wrong.
Congratulations Andi!
You got all of the questions correct.
Great job Anthony!
Was it?
No!
Okay first of all, lets just make it know that I only missed a few questions!
Yeah but that was enough to lose!
I am undefeated, 2-0 I am the champ.
You come at the boss you get destroyed.
You know what, it’s fine.
It’s fine.
I’m just going to power through this celebrating by talking about those RAD REBELS, Andi!
Like how Nathaniel Maloney relates most to AP-5 because of his singing skills and cutting
one liners, while Christian Vogt gave some love to the A-Wing pilots regardless of their
habit of blowing up and dying.
And while TONS of you gave a lot of love to the main cast*, the clear winner was our own
priceless, screen-used droid, Chopper.
COME ON IN HERE AND CELEBRATE BUDDY!
I’m just gonna let him keep doing that.
Its his favorite move!
Its your moment pal!
Thanks for watching and may the force be with you!
Its just going to go like this And you said I celebrate excessively.
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