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THE FREEMAKER ADVENTURES

“
Animation is a long process. It takes almost a
year, maybe a little more, to make an episode.

- Bob Roth -
”

he fi rst season Star Wars Insider: When did you development, is our conduit to the
of animated start work on season two? rest of the company. She’s a great
T action comedy Bob Roth: Well, animation is a support and an ideas generator.
LEGO Star Wars:
long process. It takes almost a year,
She makes sure that we are part of

The Freemaker maybe a little more, to make an the Lucasfilm family, and she put
Adventures episode from conception to us in touch with Doug. His team
introduced us to 12-year-old completion. So we actually started then took the ball and ran with it.
Rowan Freemaker, his older very preliminary work on Season
siblings Zander and Kordi, and Two before Season One aired. BM: This really is a co-production

their “vintage collectible” battle between Lucasfilm and LEGO.

droid, R0-GR. Bill Motz: That was a leap of faith They flew Doug Chiang to
As unassuming scavengers by the studios, who said, ‘Yeah, we Copenhagen so he could meet the
more interested in earning an think this is going well.’ designers at Wil Film and at LEGO.
honest living than choosing sides He gave a philosophy-of-design
in any galactic conflict, the family You recently showed off some seminar, and talked very

didn’t seem obvious candidates concept art for the show created specifically about design for Star

for the “Adventures” promised in by the noted Star Wars designer Wars and for our show.
the show’s title, but then Rowan Doug Chiang and his Similarly, Joel Aron [Lucasfi lm
discovered that not only is he collaborators. How did you come CG lighting and effects supervisor]
Force-sensitive, but also that he to be working with him? offers regular guidance on the
shares a special connection to the BR: Carrie Beck, Lucasfi lm’s vice lighting, and—beyond being the
kyber crystals that made up the president of animation voice of R0-GR—Matt Wood
very fi rst lightsaber!
As the Freemakers set out to

find those crystals, they found
themselves at odds with dark side 01
underling Naare, hapless Imperial
officers Durpin and Plumestriker,

Hutt gangster Graballa, bounty
hunter Dengar, and even Darth
Vader and the Emperor himself.
Against the odds, Rowan and his
family kept out of the Emperor’s
cold plastic clutches and found a
new home aboard the Rebel
Alliance fl agship, Home One.
The Freemakers’ fi rst forays
with the rebellion are explored in a
series of shorts that pick up right
where season one left off, and their
adventures will continue this
summer, when Season Two
premieres on Disney XD. Still
seething over the loss of the Kyber
Saber, the Emperor dispatches
M-OC, a hunter droid of his own
creation, to capture Rowan. But as
series executive producers Bill
Motz and Bob Roth revealed to
Insider, the Freemakers have
designs of their own…

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