In the first episode of the second season of Light & Magic, George Lucas and Industrial Light & Magic take viewers behind the scenes of creating the special effects for The Phantom Menace.

In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss:

• Our overall thoughts and reactions to the first episode of the second season of Light & Magic,
• How everyone at Industrial LIght & Magic wanted to work on a Star Wars movie,
• A surprising movie and character that was instrumental to the development of other digital characters like Jar Jar Binks,
• How people such as Rob Coleman, John Knoll, and Doug Chiang contributed to ILM and The Phantom Menace,
• The team effort that went into creating Jar Jar Binks,
• The storyboards for The Phantom Menace, and
• The software behind the podrace.

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