The Oscar-winning SFX guru talks turkey sandwiches, space lizards, and making the awesome Battle of Hoth scene for "Star Wars ...

The short uses action figures and ... I made a little Star Wars film. Using my family’s camcorder, I animated my toys frame by frame in stop motion, disguised my friends as Ewoks and ...

Star Wars was a game-changer — not only for science fiction on screen but for all of cinema history to come. However, when it comes to the actual filmmaking techniques pioneered in Star Wars, it ...

This clawed creature became the heaviest stop-motion puppet Tippett ... and detailed "Star Wars" Black Series collectible action figures. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

“I got to use all the cool stuff on my most recent Star Wars show,” Watts revealed ... We got Phil Tippett to do stop-motion. We did matte paintings, like real old-fashioned matte ...

I remember first reading about the existence of these movies in a Star Wars action figure guide ... We get several stop-motion creatures that I’d take over CGI beasts any day (and the effects ...

It was much the same for Ford, who grew up in the background of Lucasfilm in Marin County and watched all the Amblin movies along with the “Star Wars ... puppetry to stop-motion to models ...

For Star Wars fans, the years 1984-1990 were known as “the Dark Times.” We had nearly no new Star Wars movies ... Heir to the Empire 3.75-inch action figures: Five years after Return of ...