WEBVTT 00:00:01.400 --> 00:00:06.600 Everything the skeksis ever told us was a lot but now everyone 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:08.400 is it risk? 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:16.400 Original film. Crystal was five years of my life and Haley 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:26.300 episodes time and then it was just a lot of hard work. 00:00:26.300 --> 00:00:28.900 I just sat at the drawing board and started. 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:41.000 I was the designer for the original movie a long time after 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.200 all these years that we could bring it to Life a game on a 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.900 TV screen Brian froud and Wendy froud. 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:58.400 It's always been in my life and I've grown up realizing 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:02.200 that then the series came around and got the opportunity 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.600 to work, you know alongside my parents and the Jim Henson 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:11.400 company to create the whole new series that I own you in a prequel 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.300 to the movie and actually work with a loss of those assets 00:01:15.300 --> 00:01:16.600 that the station. 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:19.100 Crystal was the reason they got into the industry. 00:01:19.100 --> 00:01:25.200 So is really a fascinating and wonderful experience again. 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:28.000 It will be better. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.400 This style came from Brian, you know, 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.800 they did the look and feel and the puppetry in that sort of cost 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:41.000 and and Technical Wizardry came from Frank Oz and Jim Henson, 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.700 they they both do you know them directed the original together 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:47.700 but it was you know, the Hendersons brought that that whole 00:01:47.700 --> 00:01:50.800 heart and soul of puppetry to the characters. 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:55.600 We strove to one recreate and push further in the new series. 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.100 I don't know the complete total number, 00:02:06.100 --> 00:02:09.100 but suddenly over a hundred different characters and creatures 00:02:09.100 --> 00:02:11.800 and a whole host of gelfling, you know, 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.300 so it's a different Clans and characters that we had to create 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:20.100 their the Stonewood Clan the deuce in the garage sale in this 00:02:20.100 --> 00:02:24.800 price and the bathroom and the drenching and a season and then 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.500 we did as well as we did. 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:32.000 Also if you haven't seen the show just actually interesting 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.800 thing is that everything has to be lights because that puppet, 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.800 you know, we're not building costumes for humans. 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:42.000 So that God can be in any way to needs to be depending on 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.600 the Fabrics you using but we had to choose Barry light Fabrics 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:49.200 or as much as possible and make them feel heavy and make them 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:54.700 look as if they have weight and Ray and shape and form and flow 00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:58.500 at scale as they move around throughout the series and that 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:01.700 comes from you know, a gal selling which is about 40 in to ask 00:03:01.700 --> 00:03:03.800 which is just about 5. 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:19.200 Cheap maybe, you know someone from the original film but we only 00:03:19.200 --> 00:03:22.900 saw him on his deathbed so we know what does he look like at 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:26.200 this time starting with your design Ryan you did, 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:31.000 sketches of the emperor in which we then we had the sculptors 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:34.900 star on the head and hands while the costume Department 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:38.200 started on Drake and costume over body forms. 00:03:38.200 --> 00:03:42.000 Breaking down wants those different Fabrics were laying out in 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.600 the silks. It would come underneath and the on Nate's Ahmad 00:03:46.600 --> 00:03:49.000 to the frontispiece chess pieces. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:54.900 Wonderful team that we had to do it always say, 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:56.900 all right, did you know go to imagine something? 00:03:56.900 --> 00:04:01.000 So think of Liberace meets Lord Rochester because that's exactly 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.800 who he should have his and he can he's mean and fat. 00:04:03.900 --> 00:04:09.900 The same time each costume to look at least two to three months 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:13.700 to make as well as that live along with sculpting molding 00:04:13.700 --> 00:04:19.200 costing and have facial head Mechanics for two heads of the sexiest 00:04:19.200 --> 00:04:24.000 with an internal fabricated backpack rig on the property. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.700 Everything could be shifted and changed so that we could have 00:04:29.700 --> 00:04:34.000 a smaller performa be inside of the costume for walk around 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.700 shop so we can put flows in and have sketchy walk across floors. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.300 So we may finally unite as one against. 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:54.100 The truth is you have to let go work on some month often. 00:04:54.100 --> 00:04:59.300 We never saw something fully finished and literally to the last 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:03.000 minute and said it was wrong to say and it had to be right 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.900 when you said that was no going back at that moment. 00:05:05.900 --> 00:05:11.300 So it has to be beautiful and it was a wonderful moment is Emma 00:05:11.300 --> 00:05:14.700 Chamberlain was brought to stat. 00:05:14.700 --> 00:05:19.400 Imagine. We're in a big Studio Warehouse that it were on one 00:05:19.400 --> 00:05:21.500 set and then they building another set. 00:05:21.500 --> 00:05:25.600 You've got the builders and Craftsmen and all sorts of people 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:29.300 doing in a big manly thing and everything stopped. 00:05:29.300 --> 00:05:33.300 We noticed everyone has stopped for just a moment just to watch 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:36.300 Chamberlain walk out onto sex, you know, 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:38.900 he was he was being brought out and was always a magical 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:39.000 moment. 00:05:39.900 --> 00:05:43.600 When you're on a set and then all of a sudden these characters 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.700 all their own they are truly alive. 00:05:50.900 --> 00:05:54.700 Directional film I think it's has longevity for the reviewing 00:05:54.700 --> 00:05:58.700 it they like to see it again in the game because I say in 00:05:58.700 --> 00:06:01.700 it and the landscape different creatures also, 00:06:01.700 --> 00:06:05.700 they get different meanings and because it's old pins are together 00:06:05.700 --> 00:06:10.900 with symbols. And so it's always something to connect to and 00:06:10.900 --> 00:06:16.500 that that shows off and all the costumes you can watch this 00:06:16.500 --> 00:06:20.300 again and again and you will always find something new and you'll 00:06:20.300 --> 00:06:26.100 see a new aspect a new character and he's a new symbol new detail 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:30.100 every single time you watch it people watch the movie that way 00:06:30.100 --> 00:06:33.200 and voicing something you and you can watch the series that 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:37.300 way every time you re-watch it you get see something you and 00:06:37.300 --> 00:06:40.000 you realized something else and that's truly magical. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.200 You know, it's really amazing to have the ability for a production 00:06:44.200 --> 00:06:44.900 to do that.