the last Jedi is a movie you can see in
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this week um the Star Wars show is it he
sits down with Lucasfilm animation
carry-back we put together our very own
r2d2 and much much more
now look at Phil my quarters in hello
and welcome to Star Wars show I've
Anthony Carboni and I'm Andy Gutierrez
and that's usually my line but our
writer decided to phone it in this week
somebody writes this show yes and he's
very handsome and smart nope nope it's
not quit messing with a teleprompter
last week Marvel released the highly
anticipated Star Wars crossover event
the screaming Citadel the series is
about Luke Skywalker teaming up with
mysterious archaeologist dr. Aphra and a
five-part gothic horror adventure if you
are new to Star Wars comics screaming
Citadel is a great place to jump on
because it is crossing over the monthly
Star Wars comic the monthly dr. Aphra
comic and ties it all together it is an
absolutely wonderful way to jump into
the Marvel Star Wars comics which are
unbelievable the series is written by
Kieron Gillen and Jason Aaron with art
by Andrea Ricardo Marko Chicano and
Salvador LaRocca all of my cousins I
will see you on Thanksgiving moving on
to what is a very serious very important
Star Wars news story that will not only
impact your life today but possibly for
generations that's right Anthony
according to the Associated Press there
is a new nine hundred first most popular
baby boy named rising two thousand three
hundred and sixty eight spots from last
year is kylo yes people are naming their
children after my sad perfect boy and
you know what it is awesome but it's
also kind of terrifying right can you
imagine it has a tantrum a little baby
Tyler would have like a terrible - keep
it safe
Kyle or dad you know I think our job is
done this week I think so this was and
will always be the most important news
that has ever graced the Star Wars show
market down Internet we've peaked and
now in lieu of a segue let's watch us
assemble our own r2d2 from sideshow with
droids
you think we enough dredge around
offices never enough joins in you know
it's funny is I told these guys we were
doing an unboxing and they all came
running because droids love assembling
things that's true and we have quite
project to assemble our friends at
Sideshow Collectibles sent us this set
of huge boxes that when assembled makes
a full-scale life-size r2d2 and now we
get to put it together
you guys ready they say they want to
help but only one of them has hands and
he's not out let's see how this goes oh
my gosh thank you so much to our friends
at sideshow for sending us this guys
please welcome our two to the office
politely please I've got Keri Beck the
VP of animation development and member
of the story group here at Lucasfilm
with me Carrie thank you so much for
sitting down with us it seems like it's
a very exciting time to be in animation
development with Star Wars it definitely
is we have a lot going on with rebels
with Lego Star Wars treemaker adventures
and the upcoming forces of Destiny
project let's talk a little bit about
forces of Destiny because people are
extremely excited how do you decide what
moment go into forces of destiny I think
for us we looked at the stories that are
being told right now and then given the
knowledge we have about where we might
go in the future we started to look for
what were the examples of the moments
that would display those active everyday
heroism the small moments of courage of
bravery of just the moments that build
great character as the VP of development
you've kind of got your hand in all of
this stuff what exactly is it that a VP
of development does part of being the VP
of development is about helping to
develop the stories that we're going to
be telling in those animated series and
then you start to take okay what are
what are the good character sets what
are the interesting stories what are the
compelling environments for a in this
case a TV show to take place it's really
important that we all really understand
what each medium does well so what are
the best mediums to tell these stories
so for animation we're able to build a
whole bunch of environments really
expensive sets right and tell stories
that expand a long period of time until
a longer journey like with Ezra you get
more of the details of his journey over
four seasons feels tricky how did you
get into animation development how did
you wind up where you are now oh that's
a long longer story I actually did not
start an animation at all I started in
feature films I started working in both
DreamWorks it was my first job as an
intern in the story department there in
the ambled building on the universal lot
which is very cool as all and I didn't
know then that one day I would come to
work for a Cathy here at Star Wars right
here at Lucasfilm when you got here did
you start off working with the animation
to partner genome or else when I started
I was actually in a content strategy
role
I wasn't many of the early episode 7
development meetings with that team and
one of the things early on that we had
to start thinking about is what we might
make is a new animated TV show
and that's when those early
conversations began about Star Wars
rebels and thinking about what would be
next after the Clone Wars
are you responsible for allowing Dave to
have his space well finally anybody's
responsible for that baloney
I think Gordon is wishing for space well
I think that his destiny I think Lamoni
was destined to have his space wall
right he didn't know that this group of
people would arrive and and be there to
help make it so thank you so much for
taking the time to sit down with us and
we're so excited for everything
animation has coming up in the next year
it sounds like it's going to be a really
amazing year for Star Wars animation
it's going to be awesome
we're here with the saber guild with
their training lightsaber choreography
and you have been here training as well
as just performing differently through
battles yes we're global we started out
as five people in Orange County
California and now we have over 370
across the globe 370 different Jedi
members training and performing fight
choreography with lightsabers so how
long it take you to get to level where
you're at well one of the great things
about saber Gill's we have members from
not only all over the world but many
many backgrounds they start off some
people are great with choreography and
have 15 years of martial arts experience
all the way to the point where they've
never even seen a sabre in real life but
through saber guild in the training we
have the opportunity to have members
start off easily trained for about six
months and by that point they're looking
just like the movies for a beginner how
am i doing so far for a beginner will
you charge the stick so I think you
already already jumped like three or
four level okay not quite a master yet
but you're doing pretty good sir
okay I'm doing okay I probably was dead
in a real situation but I didn't die so
before we go let's just say their slogan
two sides live
next to me is the actual 40th
anniversary of Star Wars a new help
being released in theaters and so as we
do here on the show we want to hear some
of your favorite new hope memories we're
talking old pictures stories even videos
if you have them of how you experience
Star Wars for the first time send them
to us using the hashtag SW 40 and we'll
feature our favorites here next week
you know actually wasn't the first star
war I saw first one I saw was Empire
my name is Jedi really yeah we're
learning so much about each other
tonight awesome thank you for watching
and as always may the force be with you
my dad was like she's gonna like Ewoks
oh yeah yeah of course you're gonna like
evil yeah give a kidney walk yeah I was
busy for days hook
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