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September 21, 2007 |
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SANDTROOPERS INTERVIEW WITH ACME ARCHIVES (PART 2) OD = Odie OD: Who is your favorite character from Star Wars? SM: Wow! No one ever asked me that question. Not even my kid, he just watches the movies on end. Let me see, I have to go with Vader. PF: I enjoy a good rouge, so Han Solo would be my favorite. OD: Did Han Shoot first? SM/PF: Of course!!! PF: I just don’t agree with the changes in the new edition. SM: Neither do I. OD: Which do you prefer Original Trilogy or Prequel Trilogy? SM: Well I enjoy the CG of the Prequels, I do love the Original Trilogy story. It was the first of the Star Wars movies. I like both trilogies. PF: I am a purist, so it would have to be Original Trilogy for me. OD: Do you have a Star Wars collection? SM: Yes, I do. What I have here in the office is my collection. I enjoy each piece, the Master Replica Millennium Falcon signed by Harrison Ford just came in. The General Grievous out there (waiting room) is a good one too. I love them all. PF: I have a few models at home which I need to put together. There are a pieces I have as well, not like Sean’s though. OD: Do you think stormtroopers are all clones? SM: No, but there may be a few clones in the army. PF: Stormtroopers are not clones. They may have some but most are enlisted. SM: I think Luke said something about joining the academy, so they have to be mostly enlisted men. OD: What do you prefer ewoks or jawas? SM/PF: Jawas. PF: I didn’t like the Ewoks too much. I really would have preferred a Wookie battle on Endor at the end of Return of the Jedi. OD: What is giclee? And how is it different from lithographs? SM: Giclee is a printing process and has a denser printing pattern than a lithograph. Giclee printers must be certified to print a resolution. At this time Sean used a loupe to show me the difference between the two prints. The lithograph prints consist of many dots, while the giclee has smooth coloring through out the page. Magnifying lithographs is like looking at standard definition movies on a large screen high definition TV. OD: Since Acme Achieves is an animation/sketch studio and Sandtroopers may have a few inspiring artists; what is the best way to get into the business? PF: This is a tough time for animators, since the medium seems to be shifting from pen and ink to computer generated artwork. There is one thing I would tell anyone looking to be in the animation industry. Work on the basics and learn to draw. All the fancy code and computer generated animation won’t help you, if you don’t know how to draw. A good artist can be taught how to use computers to enhance his work. OD: You have so many different licensees like Star Wars, Hell Boy, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Kim Possible. How do you choose which license to go after? SM: Actually the licensees work with us. Most of our artists here have contracted work with the various companies. Then the all the artwork is stored in our archives. We talk with the different license owners on what items we could sell as product. So really its whatever we work on with Disney, Lucasarts, Cartoon Network, and many others. OD: If you are at liberty to say, aside from Acme Archives what other projects are you working on? SM: I have few projects like Everest E.R., which follows Dr Freer and her medical staff’s work on Mt. Everest, and I-See-You.Com, a webcam brings in money for a site owner then things goes wrong for them. I am also working a few movies with NASA and just finished a project with Texas Rangers police department. OD: Peter, I noticed that you worked on the 3rd season of WB’s Pinky and the Brain. How many episodes did you work on? What was your favorite episode? PF: I did storyboard work on most of the episodes directed by Nelson Recinos. Brian Acres is my favorite episodes. I had a bit of fun with that series. There was an episode where Brain was having a dictator dream; I decided to use a sequence reminiscent of the Hitler Nuremburg rally. After the interview, Peter and Sean gave me a tour of their offices. I met Chris, a Star Wars fan as well and forum member here; as well as Lisa, Sean's wife. The studio is packed with desks, printers, props, & artwork. Yes they have days were the need to work, but constantly being surround by this stuff must have positive advantages. The highlight of the office was the Archive. This is a climate controlled warehouse, where the artwork is stored, until they are needed. We joked about the Ark from Indian Jones I being hidden somewhere in the facility. Until next time troopers. United We Find!!!
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