ILM's Charmaine Chan takes us behind the scenes of The Mandalorian's groundbreaking visual effects!

Charmaine Chan is the Virtual Production Technical Director on The Mandalorian. She's also worked on a string of massive feature films, TV shows, theme park rides and VR experiences in her time at Industrial Light & Magic, including The Last Jedi, Star Tours, Black Panther, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and more.

She's also the creator of Women in Visual Effects, a video series that gives voice to women working in the industry and seeks to inspire future generations of women to enter the field. 

In this episode, Charmaine discusses: 

• How the Spice Girls started her on her career path 
• How ILM's revolutionary StageCraft tech brought The Mandalorian to life
• How her experience as a gamer prepared her for working on The Mandalorian 
• The first time she saw Baby Yoda
• What being on the set of The Mandalorian has taught her about filmmaking 
• Working on Luke Skywalker's climactic duel with Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi 
• Her goals for the Women in Visual Effects project 
• The biggest challenges facing the VFX industry
• And more! 

This interview is part of our virtual Star Wars celebration, with four new episodes in four days. Don't miss our discussion with special features guru Charles de Lauzirika from yesterday, and tune back in tomorrow for our interview with author Daniel Wallace, before our 100th episode spectacular on Sunday with original Star Wars novelist Alan Dean Foster!

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