Star Wars

Turquoise Leia is all like SERIOUSLY it’s a trap.   Love the narration and color scheme on this scene by Jon Madsen.

If there’s one thing that creative collaborators can agree on, it’s that they love Chewie — especially a dancing Chewie. Enter filmmaking duo “Side of Fries” comprised of Jordan Allen and Luke Rocheleau, who got together to co-write and co-direct “A Wookiee Mistake,” a Pringles commercial infused with Star Wars influences and characters for “The Force [...]

Luke checks out Yoda’s quirky house on Dagobah.  Awesome details in this animated scene by Lara Reyes Schwartz

Happy Father's Day to all those geeky and non-geeky dads out there. You guys rock!

When I started working on Vader’s Little Princess, I wanted to come up with a bit more than a hundred ideas, from which we’d select the favorites to include in the book. Some of these ideas were taking parenting situations and fitting them into a Star Wars scene, and some were characters or bits of [...]

May was a very busy month for me, not least because of a couple of trips down to the Disney offices in southern California. Becoming part of Disney is as surreal an experience for me as initially joining Lucasfilm was, as both Disney and Star Wars are lifelong loves of mine. In fact, while I was [...]

Old-timey Leia is getting mad at top-hatted Darth Vader. A silent movie remake of this scene by Andrés Goens Jokisch.

Hello Star Wars fans, If you have followed the Clone Wars TV series over the years you will no doubt be familiar with the names of some of my team who are, for the most part, behind the scenes. When I was first making my transition from traditional hand drawn animation to the possibilities CG animation [...]

One of my favorite activities at summer camp when I was a kid was crafting. I wasn’t remotely athletic. The camp’s pond was a muddy brown, and I didn’t like to imagine what was beneath the surface. There wasn’t horseback riding and only a few hikes so I spent as much time as possible making [...]

Some friendships are forged in a single moment, others from a lifetime of experiences shared. Poets have devoted countless pages to celebrating such friendships, but there is another about which far less has been written. That friendship is forged in chrome. C-3PO, built by nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker from the scrapped remains of several Cybot Galactica protocol [...]