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INTERVIEW: DOUG CHIANG

great man himself—and admits it become a reality… I really had and illustrator/creature designer Terryl Whitlatch were
was more than a little daunting. to prove myself! And that was the only two in-house artists at that point. “I don’t
“Here was my idol, the person the most frightening part. As an know about Terryl, but I felt this tremendous weight
who had influenced my whole artist there’s a part of me that is on my shoulders,” he recalls. “It was a really terrifying

career,” he explains. “George insecure, and I kept thinking time! During our first meeting, George had basically
had seen my portfolio, liked ‘Can I really do this? Did they said: ‘Forget everything you know of what Star Wars
it, and had the confi dence in make a mistake?’” is, because we’re going to start over.’ That really

me that I could live up to the Chiang’s first day working on frightened me, because prior to that my vision of Star
legacy of Ralph McQuarrie the prequel trilogy was January Wars was what George had already done. But what he
and Joe Johnston. I had always 19, 1995, at Skywalker Ranch in wanted to do was step back a little bit and fi gure out
dreamt of that, but to have it Marin County, California. Chiang what the design philosophy for Star Wars really was.

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