- This week we're getting ready for San Diego Comic-Con
with a couple of new reveals.
- Plus, we've got information about what
Lucasfilm is bringing to D23 Expo,
and even more Batuu for you.
- Buckle up-- here we go.
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This is "The Star Wars Show."
From the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco,
here's hosts Andi and Anthony.
- Hello, and welcome to "The Star Wars Show--"
"The Star Wars Show" that's already planning the big twist
ending for its series finale.
- Wait, we're going off the air?
- No, that's the twist.
We have to do this show until we're ghosts.
- Are we already ghosts?
[RUMBLING]
- Now that's a twist.
And this is the news.
- San Diego Comic-Con begins tonight,
and ILMxLAB is giving away brand new "Vader Immortal"
collectible posters at the event.
- The six posters feature characters
from episode one of the "Star Wars" VR experience.
- A limited amount of the posters
will be available each day at the show
at the Lucasfilm pavilion.
- But to get the poster featuring Lord Vader himself,
you'll have to be at ILMxLAB's "Star
Wars Stories" panel on Friday.
- For more information, follow ILMxLAB
and visit starwars.com/sws.
- Lucasfilm will also be bringing
the aforementioned Lucasfilm pavilion
to D23 Expo this August.
- Much like at Comic-Con this week,
D23 Expo attendees will be able to check out the stormtrooper
exhibition featuring generations of stormtrooper armor,
including the brand new Sith trooper from "Star Wars:
The Rise of Skywalker."
- Plus, for the families in attendance,
the pavilion will also host an area
for younglings and padawans filled with activities,
including a chance to discover the "Star Wars
Galaxy of Adventure" shorts.
- And, of course, "The Mandalorian" will be there as
well when executive producer Jon Favreau is joined by Dave
Filoni and other special guests during an onstage presentation
offering a glimpse at the new series
during the Disney Plus panel on Friday, August 23rd at 3 PM.
- For more on D23 expo, check out
d23.com or starwars.com/sws.
- Finally, this week, the opening dates
for "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance"
have finally been revealed.
- The attraction puts guests in the middle
of a climactic battle between the Resistance
in the first order, and features characters
like Rey and Kylo Ren.
- And you can experience it yourself at "Star Wars Galaxy's
Edge" in Orlando at Disney's Hollywood Studios
on December 5th and later, on January 17, 2020,
when it opens at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim.
- Plus, a brand new poster for the attraction has been
revealed featuring Kylo standing menacingly above a fleet
of troopers and walkers, while an x-wing
pilot and BB-8 prepare for battle
amongst the spires of Batuu.
- And while you can't get on "Rise of the Resistance"
right now when you're at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge,
one attraction that is waiting for you to experience
is "Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run."
- And wouldn't you know it, here's a segment talking
about how it came to life.
- Synergy, y'all.
- It's like we planned it.
- It's "like" we planned it.
- It's just like we planned it.
- Almost as if we had this figured out.
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- At "Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run,"
we have Hondo Ohnaka, who is a cunning business man,
and he has tons and tons of ships, lots of cargo.
And he's invited all of you to come be his crew members.
- Everyone wants to know what it's like to fly
the Millennium Falcon.
This was something that we had figured out pretty early on.
- The Millennium Falcon you can experience
is the definitive one, and by that what I mean
is that there were many different iterations.
For the original trilogy, we had an 88-foot version.
For more recent films, they vary between 110 to 112.
We took all that information, all those elements,
and distilled it down into the one iconic Millennium Falcon--
both in scale and in detail.
- We had Lucasfilm to help us develop
a look for where we wanted to go and where we
were gonna take this adventure.
And we ultimately settled on the planet Correllia.
And then, since then, we've been working with ILM
on developing all of the asset and the art
for the actual experience.
- It really was about, what do we want our guests to be
able to experience visually, and then what do
we want them to be able to do?
We made sure that we actually designed the queue in such
a way that there are all of these amazing views, angles,
wonderful opportunities to get all of those amazing Instagram
photos.
And then finally, into the cockpit,
we had to sort of think about, well,
what are the aspirational things that we
know that people have been longing to do
aboard the Millennium Falcon?
One dimension to that is obviously
getting to pilot the ship, next making sure that there was
an opportunity to allow our guests to play
the role of gunners, and then, lastly,
a flight engineer to help keep the ship in working order.
- Most of our collaboration was with Epic
and the Unreal game engine to help
deliver this real-time content.
And because of how it's set up in the attraction--
in this multi-projection system with a live actuated ride
vehicle that you're moving-- there was
a ton of new technology that had to be developed
to deliver the kind of quality we wanted for our guests
to see.
- We're entering the cinematic world of John Williams music.
But we also had to treat the music with respect
as far as being able to follow the guest's choices
and not feel like a disconnect.
There are tools in the video game world that we were
able to use and apply here.
And given that advance information
of where the choices were going to be made by the guests,
our orchestration teams were basically
able to go in and write and arrange
the music in a way to where it could
seamlessly hand off at a variety of points
throughout the experience.
The Millennium Falcon, for me, is
one of my favorite characters within the "Star Wars" galaxy.
So making sure that the ability for guests
to come back in, ride multiple times,
and get something different every time,
is something I'm super excited for them to experience.
[SCREECHING]
- I might do a silly take where, like, it's raining unicorns
or something like that. [BLEEP]
[THUNDER] [BLEEP]
But that never gets, you know, into the final film.
My name is Charmaine Chan, and I'm a scene compositor
at Industrial Light and Magic.
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A compositor is generally the person who
is at the end of the pipeline.
They're the ones who put things like the live action
plates, the CG renders, deal with lighting,
atmosphere effects work.
They are the ones who are the last ones
to touch everything and make it the final shot
that you see on the screen.
I usually describe this job as fancy, advanced Photoshop,
where you're just, like, layering things together,
except you're dealing with elements that happen to be
moving and elements that come from all different disciplines
that are some of the best work that you'll see.
I got this job back in 2007.
It was my first job out of college.
I actually started as an entry-level position,
as a resource assistant.
I then transitioned into the role
as an assistant technical director,
and that's what gave me the more general
overview of the pipeline.
That's when I kind of figured out
that I wanted to be more on the end side of the things, which
is compositing.
One of my favorite moments was my first ever
"Star Wars" project, which was "The Last Jedi."
I remember seeing a lot of the concept art
and seeing all these really, really cute creatures.
I went to my coordinator, and she happened
to give me a porg shot.
And I didn't know that this porg shot
was going to be the porg shot.
It was a really fun little shot.
We were looking at little details
like the texture of the porg's tongue.
And then the moment it came out on the first trailer
and, like, seeing and hearing everyone's
reaction to the porgs, that was probably one of the best things
ever.
Generally you're doing a lot of just,
like, sitting at your desk, making new iterations of shots.
And sometimes that requires really long hours.
But we're all very passionate about this work
and really want to get the best image across.
The main advice I would give to anyone who wants to work here
is if you're passionate about working
in this industry, if you're passionate about "Star
Wars," if you're passionate about filmmaking,
is to just keep pursuing it.
There might be a lot of different tasks
that you might have to do or roles
that you have to start off with that's not
exactly what you want to do.
But if you love it, just keep at it,
and eventually you'll get to it.
- You're watching-- - --the star
- --wars - --show.
- Could you imagine being Charmaine
and sitting on that porg shot for ages
and knowing how awesome it was months before the public did?
- I wonder what she's currently hiding from us?
- Should we have her on the show and find out?
- Yes. Yes, we should.
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and always look both ways before crossing the street.
- Especially if you're an American
visiting the United Kingdom, because they
drive backwards over there.
- Good point.
Thanks for watching, and may the force be with you.
- I don't mean on the wrong side of the road--
- No, it's true man--
- They drive in reverse.
- The-- [LAUGHING]
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[BLEEP]
- The point [GIBBERISH]-- [BLEEP]
But they're like the Lucasfilm-- [BLEEP]
Amanda. [BLEEP]
[BLEEP] - --the Sith trooper--
[SIGH]
Of course "The Mandalorian" will have--
[SIGH] [BLEEP]
--well when executive--
[SIGH]
[BLEEP]
- The attraction puts--
put-- put-- [BLEEP]
Put-puts-- puts-- [BLEEP]
That's what we call nailing it in one.
[BLEEP]
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