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George Lucas and sculptor Darren Marshall finesse the final design of the Bog King (voiced by Alan Cumming) for the animated motion picture "Strange Magic."(Photo: Lucasfilm) For a guy who's "happily retired," George Lucas is sure keeping himself busy. The iconic filmmaker isn't regularly tinkering around in the Star Wars universe anymore — that's now director J.J. Abrams' gig — but he has created a new fantasy landscape with the animated musical Strange Magic (out Jan. 23), in which fairies, elves and romance are more plentiful than Jedi, Wookiees and the Force. "My motivation has always...


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By Dave Filoni:   Hello Star Wars fans, If you have followed the Clone Wars TV series over the years you will no doubt be familiar with the names of some of my team who are, for the most part, behind the scenes. When I was first making my transition from traditional hand drawn animation to the possibilities CG animation offered, I was very concerned with how the drawings Kilian Plunkett and I were doing would be realized in three dimensions. How did we solve this problem? Enter design artist and sculptor Darren Marshall. Darren has been a member of the Lucasfilm Animation team for eleven...


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