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We were in an atmosphere in the household that you could accomplish anything you set your mind to. If you were willing to put in the hard work, nothing was beyond your grasp.

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A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.

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A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game.

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I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

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I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.

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There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for 'New Hope,' and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for 'Empire Strikes Back.' The 8-foot model and the 3-foot model are kind of different. A lot of the details are different between the two of them.

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Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure facility in the Empire. You have a small band of experts with complementary skills who, together, are able to do these amazing things.

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I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera operator, so I shot a lot of miniatures.

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On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

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I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: October 6th, 1962

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