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The New Force at Lucasfilm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the feel-the-money-surround-you dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interview with the heads of George Lucas' gaming and movie divisions, and discusses with them how they are getting closer and closer to integration. From the article: 'Pre-visualization, which is a big thing that George has been pushing lately. It's a tool that directors would use to quickly mock up the ideas of a story and see what's going to work. It's really like building up a preview of a movie in a video game world. Instead of using static story boards, you can really just get in and create 3D content and camera moves directly. It's the best example of the kind of collaboration we've got going on.'"

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  1. Droidmaker by Doytch · · Score: 2, Informative

    For anyone interested in the Lucasarts story, including the kickass games, I heartily suggest the book Droidmaker. I got it and it was an awesome read. Lucas was involved in a helluva lot of stuff.

  2. Re:Full Throttle by Squigley · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was a sequel in the works, "Hell on Wheels", but because it didn't have enough Star Wars content, it got axed, nearly 3 years ago.

    There was a press release about it getting axed, but that most not have had enough Star Wars content either, and it's been deleted, and you get redirected to the home page.

    There's a brief article here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/fullthrottle2 /news_6073105.html

    And a bit more here: http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,183

    God I wish Lucas would get over the whole Star Wars thing already.

  3. Re:A few things.... by malducin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, ILM keeps a sizeable Art Dept. which does illustrations, sketches, concept art and the like. Also people in the Model Shop do sculptures and maquettes of concepts for pre-production.