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Creating Star Wars animatronics

Practice English with 5 real-video lessons in Creating Star Wars animatronics, part of the Behind stage and screen course in Sublex.

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Lesson 1

The return of animatronics

[Music] Star Wars has been at the cutting edge of special effects. Puppets, prosthetics, animatronics, CGI, and now thankfully animatronics again. All the facial expressions go,...

Language: enDuration: 1 min

Lesson 2

A childhood spark

6 years old. That film sort of lit a spark in me. First of all, I was just in awe, overwhelmed, and it made me extremely curious how they crafted these films, how they can physi...

Language: enDuration: 1 min

Lesson 3

Perfecting creature movement

Every hair has to be perfect. The movement has to be near perfect. You can only get do so much with a rubber skin. That sounds like a lot. When I take a creature on set, my anxi...

Language: enDuration: 1 min

Lesson 4

Building a practical creature

There was this small Finnish film I did and the creature we built that was very prominent in the film. It was like almost like a throwback to the 80s. You know, we're on the flo...

Language: enDuration: 1 min

Lesson 5

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Full video: How Star Wars Animatronics Come to Life

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