I Wouldn't Say Jamie Is An Evil

I'm Not A Sculptor; I'm A Hard-edged Model Maker. You Give Me A Drawing, You Give Me A Prop To Replicate, You Give Me A Crane, Scaffolding, Parts From 'star Wars' - Especially Parts From 'star Wars' - I Can Do This Stuff All Day Long. It's Exactly How I Made My Living For 15 Years.

Am I Missing An Eyebrow?

Whether It's The Experiments On 'mythbusters' Or My Earlier Work In Special Effects For Movies, I've Regularly Had To Do Things That Were Never Done Before, From Designing Complex Motion-control Rigs To Figuring Out How To Animate Chocolate.

I Had Saved A Few Hundred Photos Of Dodo Skeletons Into My 'creative Projects' Folder - It's A Repository For My Brain, Everything That I Could Possibly Be Interested In. Any Time I Have An Internet Connection, There's A Sluice Of Stuff Moving Into There, Everything From Beautiful Rings To Cockpit Photos.

That Aesthetic Of The Star Wars Universe: The Do-it-yourself, Hotrod Ethic That George Lucas Exported From His Childhood, Is Exactly The Same Kind Of Soul Behind What We Do And Build For The Show. It May Not Look Pretty, But It Gets The Job Done.