When we get up with Adam Savage at San Diego Comic Con , he was excited to talk about all things Star Wars . For one affair , he ’s gota special Star Wars episode of MythBusters come up . For another , though , he chit-chat the set of The Force Awakens , and come across something really , really coolheaded .
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We were talking to Savage about practical optic effects , and the fact that a lot of cinema - manufacturer ( like J.J. Abrams ) are returning to practical VFX . And Savage mentioned that he ’s friends with Phil Tippett , the brute designer from the original Star Wars trilogy . According to Savage , Tippett was add back into the young motion picture by J.J. Abrams , to recreate one iconic sequence from the first movie , in particular . “ I got to go watch him shoot it , ” aver Savage . “ It was so nerveless — the old school engineering science . The old school technology : his animation . And it ’s beautiful . ”
We guessed that Savage was lecture about that animated “ Bromus secalinus ” game , with the weird creatures — and apparently , we guessed right . We ’ve bonk that that chess board would be in the new moving picture since June 2014 , whenAbrams tweeted a picture of it . But now we know there will be actual creatures run around around on the circuit card , and that they ’ll be create using old - school effects . Hopefully someone will have the sensation to let the Wookiee profits .
We asked Savage if he think 3D printing is making honest-to-goodness - schooling practical VFX easy to rive off , and he react : “ 3D printing process is a prick like any other . Like clay for a statue maker . It does make some thing more possible . We also have a multiplication of film - Creator , like Jon Favreau and Peter Jackson and J.J. Abrams , who really appreciate and understand how those effects were used , and are really looking to put them back . And Guillermo del Toro loves putting hard-nosed impression , construction exercise set around his role player and giving them stuff to interact with . There ’s just nothing that can match to that kind of performance . ”
Savage say the Star Wars episode of MythBusters will explore why stormtroopers have such risky aim . “ They ’re atrocious . They ca n’t remove a thing . ” What ’s the reason ? “ I recall perhaps they ’ve been inbred so much that they only have one eye , ” he speculates , “ and like half a mouth . ” They ’re all tenth - coevals clones of Jango Fett or something . “ They ’re just forcible smoke - catchers , is what they are . ”
Another thing he ’s excited about this upcoming season : “ I flew in a U2 plane . I flew to 70,000 feet , to the edge of space , to essay a myth , and it ’s incredible . There ’s a myth that the U2 plane , the undercover agent woodworking plane , is the most difficult of all planes to fly . And it ’s pretty amazing . ”
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