How did you land one of the biggest film jobs in conceptual design: Revenge of the Sith?
I have a friend who works at Skywalker Ranch—he’s actually the art director for Star Wars, Ryan Church—and he said they were looking for artists for Episode III. And I was like, “Hey, I’m sending my stuff!” So then they hired me on. For concept design, that’s probably the film you want to work on because everything needs to be designed in this movie. It’s all original stuff. It was a lot of fun working on this film. I grew up with all these movies, and to work on the last one is especially fun. Did you have any early trepidation taking on such a huge icon? Yeah, the first few days were pretty scary because we had meetings with George every Friday, so of course the days building up to that… I had worked freelance for them for about a month from Los Angeles, sending them my stuff, and George would look at it, but I never met him in person. Then I finally went to the Ranch to work full time, and the first few days before that meeting I was pretty nervous—George Lucas was going to walk in,
