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Episode 883 - Light & Magic - Season 2, Episode 1 “Are We Ready for This?”

Author
Dennis Keithly & Jay Krebs
Published
Wed 07 May 2025
Episode Link
https://podcaststardust.libsyn.com/episode-883-light-magic-season-2-episode-1-are-we-ready-for-this

In the first episode of the second season of Light & Magic, George Lucas and Industrial Light & Magic take viewers behind the scenes of creating the special effects for The Phantom Menace.

 

In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss:

  • Our overall thoughts and reactions to the first episode of the second season of Light & Magic,
  • How everyone at Industrial LIght & Magic wanted to work on a Star Wars movie,
  • A surprising movie and character that was instrumental to the development of other digital characters like Jar Jar Binks,
  • How people such as Rob Coleman, John Knoll, and Doug Chiang contributed to ILM and The Phantom Menace,
  • The team effort that went into creating Jar Jar Binks,
  • The storyboards for The Phantom Menace, and
  • The software behind the podrace.

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Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.

 

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