That toolkit will include the stop-motion talents ofvisual effects legend Phil Tippett.

I got to use all the cool stuff on my most recentStar Warsshow.

We had pre-viz, mocap, we shot on the volume, we did everything.

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We got Phil Tippett to do stop-motion.

We did matte paintings, like real old-fashioned matte paintings.

We got an ILM painter out of retirement to come out and do that.

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And who better to do it than the teams that started it all?

You dont need to have really any prior Star Wars knowledge to enjoy it, Watts said.

But if you do, it’s possible for you to enjoy it on many levels.

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