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STAR WARSTM THE CLONE WARSTM Beginning with a brief but significant mention in Star Wars: A New Hope, the Clone Wars were greatly expanded upon in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005) before the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie (2008) drew audiences into the heart of the galactic conflict that audiences had speculated about for 30 years. The show went on to spawn seven seasons that explored the dramatic conflict as established characters such as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Count Dooku were expanded upon, and new characters such as Captain Rex, Hondo Ohnaka, and, of course, Ahsoka Tano won the hearts and minds of audiences young and old. Now, discover how this groundbreaking series was brought to life by a dedicated team, led by supervising director Dave…

SEASON 1 SEASON 1 EPISODE GUIDE EP. 1 “AMBUSH” Yoda voyages to the coral moon of Rugosa to convince Toydaria’s King Katuunko to help the Republic, but Asajj Ventress also seeks the king’s allegiance. After Yoda’s ship is shot down, he proposes a wager: He and his small squad of clone troopers will battle Ventress’s massive droid army. The winner will obtain Katuunko’s aid. EP. 2 “RISING MALEVOLENCE” EP. 3 “SHADOW OF MALEVOLENCE” EP. 4 “DESTROY MALEVOLENCE” A devastating new Separatist ion-cannon weapon aboard the powerful starship Malevolence, commanded by General Grievous, maroons Jedi Master Plo Koon and two clone troopers, led by clone commander Wolffe. Disobeying the Jedi Council, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano search for them. After finding their comrades, the Separatists attack Republic medical facilities, so Anakin utilizes…

SEASON 4 SEASON 4 EPISODE GUIDE EP. 1 “WATER WAR” EP. 2 “GUNGAN ATTACK” EP. 3 “PRISONERS” When the king of Mon Cala is assassinated, talks break down between the Mon Calamari people and the Quarren, co-inhabitants of an aquatic world. To stop a civil war, the Republic sends Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker to work with Captain Ackbar; unbeknownst to them, the Quarren are already being backed by the Separatists, led by the shark-like Riff Tamson. The Jedi wind up protecting Mon Cala’s new leader, the young Prince Lee-Char, from the attack. Anakin and the rest of his team are overrun; Lee-Char and Ahsoka Tano must evade capture on their own. Yoda calls upon the amphibious Gungan Grand Army to help. Tamson doubles his efforts to track down Lee-Char…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARSTM THE CLONE WARSTM “Begun, the Clone War has.” Yoda utters those ominous words at the end of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002). The the end of those wars was revealed in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005)—but what happened in-between? What battles were fought? What dramas unfolded? Those questions were answered by the animated episodic TV show Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which debuted in 2008. Set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Clone Wars explored the conflict between the Republic and the Separatists, the former led by Jedi generals and their seemingly loyal clone troopers; the latter is led by Count Dooku…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS DARREN MARSHALL CHARACTER DESIGN & MAQUETTE SCULPTOR How did you come to work on Star Wars: The Clone Wars? I was already here as part of Industrial Light & Magic [ILM]. Dave Filoni [The Clone Wars supervising director] saw some of my older maquettes and asked if I could join his team to realize some of the main characters. What does the job entail? Dave always likes me to sculpt important characters and the classic characters. He likes me to block out a maquette and to stylize it into the style of our show, to see what it’s going to look like in 3D. For me, it’s easier to block a figure out in clay, because I come from a stop-motion…

ROB COLEMAN ANIMATION CONSULTANT What are the day-to-day challenges of an animation consultant? Dave Filoni, the series’ supervising director, and Catherine Winder, our launch producer, had both worked in animation before but had not worked in the Star Wars universe. George Lucas asked me to meet with them and immerse them in the world of Star Wars. The role of animation consultant came out of that early working relationship with Dave Filoni. Dave is a very talented storyboard artist, and he’d come from doing the 2D animated Avatar: The Last Airbender, but he’d not worked in computer graphics before, and he’d not worked with Star Wars characters. He is a huge Star Wars fan, as the world now knows, but we crafted the role of animation consultant so that I would…

THE CLONE WARS THE CLONE WARS Across hundreds of planets, Republic forces battle against the Separatists for the future of the galaxy. The Republic army’s genetically engineered clone troopers are led by the Jedi Order—together, they fight to restore peace to the galaxy. Against them are the never-ending droid army commanded by the sinister Count Dooku, who answers to a mysterious Sith Lord known only as Darth Sidious… It all began when Obi-Wan Kenobi found out that a secret clone army had been ordered by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas from alien cloners on the planet Kamino. During his investigation, he discovered a secret droid army was being made by the Geonosians in their factories—paid for by the Separatists. Soon after, Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala were captured and under threat…

SEASON 2 SEASON 2 EPISODE GUIDE EP. 1 “HOLOCRON HEIST” EP. 2 “CARGO OF DOOM” EP. 3 “CHILDREN OF THE FORCE” Cad Bane is hired by Darth Sidious to steal a powerful Jedi holocron. The holocrons – data storage systems that can be opened only with the Force – are protected within a vault inside the Jedi Temple. Bane recruits a changeling named Cato Parasitti, who poses as Madame Jocasta Nu, the librarian inside the Jedi Archive, to infiltrate the building’s security systems. Ahsoka Tano catches on, she, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi give chase to Bane and his cohorts. Anakin and Ahsoka travel to the planet Devaron in pursuit of Bane. But Bane has trapped Jedi Bolla Ropal, keeper of the kyber memory crystal, which will reveal data on…

SEASON 6 SEASON 6 EPISODE GUIDE EP. 1 “THE UNKNOWN” EP. 2 “CONSPIRACY” EP. 3 “FUGITIVE” EP. 4 “ORDERS” Clone trooper Tup succumbs to a mysterious mental illness that results in the death of a Jedi Master. Unable to account for his murderous actions, Tup is sedated and sent back to Kamino for examination. In the sterile laboratories of Kamino, the ailing Tup and Fives are quarantined. With the help of medical droid AZI-3, Fives uncovers a secret buried deep within the Republic’s cloning program. After he dies, the body of Tup is scheduled for transport to Coruscant, where Supreme Chancellor Palpatine’s own doctors will closely examine it. Fives breaks protocol and discovers that there is an organic construct of unknown purpose hidden in the brains of all the clone…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS GEORGE LUCAS CREATOR Star Wars mastermind George Lucas offers his thoughts about The Clone Wars film and animated series, and the episodic nature of the story. For a lot of young fans, The Clone Wars served as their introduction to Star Wars. What are your thoughts on that new generation of kids who were introduced to the Star Wars saga through The Clone Wars animated series? It’s obviously a different tone, but still has the drama and the characters. The TV series is exactly like the movies. Exactly. It’s basically the movies only with cartoon characters. It’s basically a dramatic series: there’s a lot of action and a bit of humor. It runs along at the same level. It’s unusual for…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS DAVE FILONI SUPERVISING DIRECTOR What did Season Four represent technically and artistically for the production team? Everything. There’s really nothing we couldn’t do at that point. Creatively, we didn’t have a situation where we ever say, “Let’s not go to that type of planet. Let’s not do that type of scenario. Let’s not have thousands of people in a crowd.” We didn’t avoid things. We still had to be creative and figure out how to do it. We made creative choices as to how we were going to express visually the story that’s being told. There are creative choices that have to be made around the assets. I can’t use this, so let’s re-use this; let’s re-purpose this. But in any…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS JOEL ARON CG LIGHTING & EFFECTS SUPERVISOR What does a CG lighting and effects supervisor do? It’s a job that was unique to Star Wars: The Clone Wars. A CG supervisor is the nerd on the show that knows how all the strings are tied together in order to keep it running. The role encompasses lighting and effects, and I’ve done lighting almost my entire career, and I’ve done effects my entire career, so it kind of blended together! The lighting part of the job is making each episode look the way that we want it to look. For the effects, I have to make sure we’re not making the show too photo-realistic, and that we’re putting style into it. What…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS NOTES FROM THE FRONTLINE Walter Murch redefined the role of the cinematic sound editor/mixer, coining the term “sound designer” for Apocalypse Now (1979), a title foreshadowed by his “sound montage” credit for The Conversation (1974). Murch later turned his hand to directing, helming Return to Oz, the 1985 sequel to the beloved classic. It was his friend George Lucas who offered Murch the opportunity to take the director’s chair once again for The Clone Wars Season Four episode of the Umbaran quadrilogy, “The General.” How did you first get invited to direct an episode of The Clone Wars? I heard George Lucas had asked a friend of mine, Bob Dalva, who’s a film editor, director, and cameraman, to be a guest…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS Popular characters of Star Wars lore since their first appearance en masse in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the bounty hunters returned with a vengeance in Season 2 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Dave Filoni talks about the galactic tough guys! BOUNTY BUNCH “When it came to the bounty hunters, we really wanted them to have a lot of colorful elements to their costumes along with different little knives and bits of gear like all the details you see on Boba Fett’s outfit. It’s great that over the years the fans have decided, ‘Oh, those are sonic wrenches,’ and other details,” says Dave Filoni. “It might have just been a piece of metal that was shoved…

WHO FOUGHT IN THE CLONE WARS WHO FOUGHT IN THE CLONE WARS Millions of clone troopers and battle droids fought on hundreds of planets throughout the galactic conflict known as the Clone Wars. Though thousands of nameless soldiers perished, the commanders and Jedi generals who lead them into battle will live on forever. ANAKIN SKYWALKER Discovered as a slave on Tatooine by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, Anakin Skywalker had the potential to become one of the most powerful Jedi ever. His midi-chlorian count was off the charts—which lead Qui-Gon to believe that Anakin is the prophesied Chosen One, the being who would bring balance to the Force. A hero of the Clone Wars, Anakin is caring and compassionate, but also has a reputation amongst the Jedi for passion, recklessness, and…

SEASON 3 SEASON 3 EPISODE GUIDE DATA & TRIVIA The isapowerfulblaster often used by clone troopers. The rain-swept world of wassecretlydeletedfromthe star maps in the Jedi Archives—until Obi-Wan Kenobi located it. A lonely world beyond the Outer Rim just south of the Rishi Maze, Kamino is an ocean planet; cities on enormous stilts tower over the waves. In Tipoca City, Prime Minister Lama Su closely monitors the business of Kamino’s most prized export: clone troopers. The leader of Mandalore during the Clone Wars, ofKalevalapushesherpeople to move beyond its violent past and institute a government that values peace. Mandalore begins to rebuild under her guidance, but the dark shadow of the Clone Wars make the duchess’ goals difficult to achieve. In “Supply Lines” the Jedi’s name Ima-Gun Di is an obvious…

SEASON 7 SEASON 7 EPISODE GUIDE EP.1 “THE BAD BATCH” EP.2 “A DISTANT ECHO” EP.3 “ON THE WINGS OF KEERADAKS” EP.4 “UNFINISHED BUSINESS” On the planet Anaxes, the Separatists, lead by Admiral Trench, are attacking one of the Republic’s largest shipyards, and the droid army are dangerously close to taking control. To combat the threat, Captain Rex and Commander Cody team up with Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, and Crosshair, who are all members of the experimental unit Clone Force 99, known as the Bad Batch, to infiltrate the Separatist’s cyber center. Upon gaining access, Tech uncovers a live signal coming from another planet, Skako Minor, that continually repeats “CT-1409” in a voice that sounds like ARC trooper Echo’s, Rex’s fallen comrade. Along with Anakin Skywalker and the Bad Batch, Captain Rex…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS HOW IT WAS MADE, PART I Lucas had played with the idea of an animated Clone Wars television series for some time, in part due to his love for animation. Decades before, he had produced animated TV shows about C-3PO and R2-D2 as well as a show about the loveable Ewoks. When he decided to do the new series, Skywalker Ranch became its production hub. Just behind the Victorian-style Main House is the Carriage House: a three-story shingle-roof building, which became the bustling center of the new Star Wars chapter (it had formely been the home of Lucas Licensing). Animation director of the prequel trilogy Rob Coleman was an early series director and animation consultant. He remembers, “There was this really…

DAVE FILONI Five Reasons To Love Star Wars: The Clone Wars • It gave us the most Star Wars stories from George Lucas. Most people know that George Lucas created The Clone Wars series and is its executive producer. But not everyone realizes that many, many stories, nearly all of them, from the series’ original run come straight either from Lucas or were molded by his personal input, often re-shaped in the editing suite. With 121 episodes, more than 40 hours of Star Wars tales from the guy who started it all. • It introduced Ahsoka Tano. One of The Clone Wars’ biggest surprises was that Anakin Skywalker had a Padawan—Ahsoka Tano—and that their relationship would form the heart of the series. Much like her master, Ahsoka starts out brash…

BEHIND THE SCENES OF STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS KEITH KELLOGG ANIMATION SUPERVISOR Can you describe the role of Animation Supervisor and what the job entails? We had three studios working for us, so basically every studio submitted their shots to me on a daily basis. We were working on multiple episodes at any given time, and I reviewed these shots—around 80 to 100 of them each day—and made notes on them. There were also many times where I recorded myself, as sometimes that was the easiest way to get across my thoughts on the performance. There was also a lot of work that is done upfront, earlier in the design process of the episode. From the start of the show, the assets were created. These were modeled, both in-house…

IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION Film director and editor Duwayne Dunham – best known to Star Wars fans for his visual effects editing work on Return of the Jedi (1983) – returned to the saga when he directed two episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season Three’s “Pursuit of Peace” and Season Four’s “Water Wars”. How did you come to work on The Clone Wars? George Lucas wanted to have guest directors from live-action come in to bring a different sensibility to the animation process. George was always saying, “Oh, give me that shot, but do this,” and the guys who created the story reel animation sometimes didn’t understand what was needed, so I would become almost an interpreter. I would try to learn how they’re doing it, but do…