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Official Pix made their latest round of guest announcements today, highlighted by the return of Ian McDiarmid to the Celebration Autograph Hall. McDiarmid made his Celebration debut at Celebration VI in Orlando, Florida and attended Celebration Europe in Essen, Germany as well.
In addition to McDiarmid several other guests were announced today, including some new to Celebration. Here are the latest addtions to the Celebration guest line up. To see the other announcements click HERE and HERE and for the full guest line up visit the Star Wars Celebration guest page HERE.
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Best Known For: Palpatine: Episodes I-III, V-VI
Ian McDiarmid, the actor who unforgettably played the evil galactic mastermind and the ultimate villain of the Star Wars saga, will make a rare convention appearance at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, appearing on-stage and signing autographs.
In 1983, McDiarmid embodied the full depth of the dark side as the Emperor in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, his face hidden under ghastly makeup and his eyes concealed behind sickly yellow contact lenses. When his true face was revealed as the apparently kind and helpful Senator Palpatine in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999), he projected a different kind of evil – a subtle manipulator of galactic events, a villain hidden in plain sight. As the prequels progressed, so too did Palpatine’s plans until finally, in Revenge of the Sith (2005), McDiarmid got to play evil at its fullest, and revealed the true power of Darth Sidious.
Ian McDiarmid is a veteran performer and director on the London stage, and has received acclaim for his work in Shakespeare and modern fare. From 1990 to 2002, he was the joint artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, where he helped transform it into an international theater of world renown. In addition to Palpatine, moviegoers know McDiarmid from such roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dragonslayer and Sleepy Hollow. A lover of fine music, McDiarmid was the host of the DVD edition of Star Wars: A Musical Journey that accompanied the soundtrack release of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. He was recently seen in the television mini-series 37 Days portraying Edward Grey.
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Best Known For: Art Director, Disney Consumer Products
Art director at Disney Consumer Products, Troy Alders, will be conducting portfolio reviews, providing critiques, and offering tips to graphic designers and illustrators.
Alders has almost 30 years of experience as an art director and designer in the entertainment industry, and for the past 20 years he has been the Art Director for Lucasfilm Licensing. He has taught graphic design at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco for 10 years and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communication from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), in Southern California.
Look for Troy Alders in the Portfolio Review room. Bring a portfolio selection of your best design work in and see if you have what it takes to create art for the ever-expanding Star Wars galaxy. Graphic Design degrees a plus.
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Best Known For: Senior Art Director, Idustrial Light & Magic
After graduating from The Art Center in Pasadena, Christian Alzmann was hired into Industrial Light & Magic's art department. Sixteen years later, he is still with ILM, now a Senior Art Director. He has worked on numerous film projects including A.I., Men in Black II, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones, War of the Worlds, the fourth installment of Indiana Jones, Transformers and Star Trek 2. Alzmann is currently working on Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
As a visual storyteller Alzmann has also illustrated book covers for science fiction & fantasy novels. His clients include Harper Collins, Penguin Books, IDG and Future Publishing. Alzmann's artwork has been featured in Star Wars Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones, Van Helsing: The Making of the Legend, Inside Men in Black II, Exposé and Spectrum 9-16. Alzmann’s personal work can be found in his book: Tales: The Art of Christian Alzmann, available now.
Look for Christian Alzmann on stage for panels, and in the Portfolio Review room conducting reviews.
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Best Known For: CG Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic
Drawing on an exhaustive history of creating seamless digital effects for Industrial Light & Magic's theatrical and commercial efforts, Joel Aron has helped to bring a feature film sensibility to the weekly animated adventures of Star Wars Rebels.
Aron joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1991 as a technical assistant on the feature film Hook. He has worked on many high profile films, including Jurassic Park, Men in Black, The Perfect Storm and Pearl Harbor. As a sequence supervisor, Aron was responsible for leading technical directors with their day-to-day technical and aesthetic questions. He was tasked with communicating the vision of the visual effects supervisor and the film's director to ensure consistency and continuity between shots. As a CG Supervisor, Aron continued to push the limits of computer graphic feature film visual effects, while still working on location for principal photography. In the spring of 2008, Aron joined forces with the team behind Star Wars: The Clone Wars to supervise the visual effects and lighting for the epic series. Aron continues on to supervise the lighting and visual effects for the DisneyXD animated series, Star Wars Rebels.
Prior to joining ILM, Aron worked as a freelance computer artist, specializing in 2D compositing, 3D lighting and modeling and animation. He is an avid photographer, and is rarely seen without a camera.
Look for Joel Aron in the Star Wars University, where he will teach his coveted photography classes to Celebration attendees.
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Best Known For: Voice Actor – Admiral Ackbar and Bib Fortuna, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
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Best Known For:
Look for Anita Castellar on panels at Celebration that focus on the future of Star Wars products.
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Best Known For: Keeper of the Holocron, Lucasfilm
On January 31, 1997, the Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition released in theaters. On that same day, Leland Chee was hired as a game tester at LucasArts. While working on products like Rebellion, Behind the Magic, and The Phantom Menace video game, Chee gained a reputation for being a Star Wars expert in a department filled with Star Wars experts.
In 2000, Leland joined Lucas Licensing where he was tasked with creating a database cataloging every single character, species, location, technology, event, and term created for the Star Wars universe. This database, which he called the Holocron, was designed to serve as a tool to make sure every book, game, and product in development by Licensing adhered to Star Wars canon. He became known both outside and in Lucasfilm as the “Keeper of the Holocron.”
In 2013, Chee joined the newly-formed Lucasfilm Story Group which oversees fictional Star Wars content generated across all platforms from films, television, games, books, attractions, digital, and consumer products. The ultimate dream job. You can follow him on Twitter @HolocronKeeper.
Look for Chee on panels throughout the weekend.
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Best Known For: Art Director, Disney Interactive
Look for Hez Chorba, Art Director for Disney Interactive, in the Portfolio Review Room.
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Best Known For:
Having experienced her first movie-going moment with the original Star Wars film, Amy Beth Christenson was inspired to spend her childhood drawing fantastic characters and creatures. Growing up in the small farm town of Greensburg, Kansas, she pursued art training at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Ringling School of Art and Design, graduating in 2000. For the next eleven years, she combined her passions for Star Wars and video games as a concept artist for LucasArts. Christenson worked through eight shipped titles during that time, including a role as senior and lead concept designer for the games of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed series.
Christenson continued on as a senior concept designer at Lucasfilm Animation for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series from 2011-2013. She is currently a senior concept designer and visual development artist for the Star Wars: Rebels television series. Her artwork can also be found in several Star Wars art books, and as pieced printed by Acme Archives.
Look for Amy Beth Christianson on panels and in the Portfolio Review room.
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Best Known For: Concept Designer, Lucasfilm
After earning a degree in Computer Animation, Chris Glenn escaped the oppressive heat of Phoenix Arizona to make his way to Los Angeles to start a career in Games Development. Over the next twelve years Glenn worked in every aspect of game art, from 3D art and character animation to concept art and art direction. In that time he shipped more than fifteen titles for Activision, Sony, Atari, Disney and more.
In 2010 Glenn transitioned over to the story-driven medium of Animation and started at Lucasfilm as a concept designer, where he’s been happily creating all manner of things for Star Wars.
Look for Chris Glenn on panels and in the Portfolio Review room.
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Best Known For: Senior Editor of Adult Fiction, Lucasfilm/Disney Publishing Worldwide
Jennifer Heddle is senior editor of adult fiction at Lucasfilm/Disney Publishing Worldwide, handling Star Wars novels and comic books. Prior to that she spent fifteen years in book publishing, primarily at Penguin and Simon & Schuster. She writes for the official Star Wars blog at starwars.com and has had pieces published in Star Wars Insider and at io9. She is originally from New York City, but currently resides in Alameda, California.
Look for Jennifer Heddle on publishing-focused panels at Star Wars Celebration.
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Best Known For: Creative Executive, Lucasfilm
A lifelong Star Wars fan and recognized expert on the depth and history of the saga, Pablo Hidalgo started writing professionally on the subject in 1995, penning articles for the original Star Wars role-playing game. He was one of the first online fans to attempt to tackle cataloging and inventorying the Star Wars universe in 1997 with a fan encyclopedia he eventually moved offline.
In 2000, he switched careers from being a visual-effects concept artist and digital compositor to a full-time Star Wars authority at Lucasfilm, joining Lucas Online as a content developer for the official Star Wars website. In 2003, he accompanied the Episode III crew as the on-set diarist, reporting daily from Sydney, London and San Rafael during the film’s production and postproduction periods. His close involvement with the making of Episode III netted him a walk-on cameo role in Revenge of the Sith. Hidalgo would later serve as managing editor of StarWars.com, and then became brand communication manager for Lucasfilm, where he applied his deep knowledge of the company’s brands to advise on creative and business decisions.
Hidalgo has written or co-written several authoritative Star Wars reference books, including The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Star Wars: Year by Year, and Star Wars: The Essential Reader’s Companion, as well as guide-books to other brands such as Hasbro’s G.I.Joe and Transformers. He frequently serves as stage host at such events as San Diego Comic-Con International and Star Wars Celebration. He is currently a Creative Executive and part of the Lucasfilm Story Group.
Look for Pablo Hidalgo on stage at Celebration, either leading to taking part in informative panels.
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Best Known For: Animation Supervisor, Lucasfilm
Keith Kellogg is an animation professional with over fifteen years experience working in visual effects and animated films. He was a Senior and Lead animator working on such films as The Matrix Reloaded, and Revolutions, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many others. He worked for Robert Zemeckis as a Digital Performance Supervisor on his performance capture films. The past two years Kellogg was nominated for an Annie for his work on the two-time Emmy award winning show Star Wars: Clone Wars and is currently the Animation Supervisor for the new hit television show for Disney, Star Wars: Rebels from Lucasfilm.
Don’t miss Keith Kellogg teaching “Animation with Attitude” in the Star Wars University.
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Best Known For: Production Manager, Lucasfilm
Liz Marshall has worked at Lucasfilm Animation since 2009, starting her career as an intern on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Originally from Maine, Marshall received her animation degree from Emerson College in Boston. She currently resides in the Bay Area, and continues her career at Lucasfilm as the Production Manager on Star Wars: Rebels.
Look to learn some of the inside tips and tricks to succeeding in production from Liz Marshall at Celebration.
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Best Known For: Dak Ralter, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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Best Known For: Darth Vader Helmet & Armor Sculptor, Original Trilogy
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Best Known For: Beru Whitesun Lars, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith
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Best Known For: Line Producer, Lucasfilm
Athena Yvette Portillo was an Emmy Award-winning line producer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and is now the line producer on Star Wars: Rebels.
A part of the Star Wars universe since 1996, Portillo was granted an internship at Lucas Licensing during a time when the original trilogy Special Editions, as well as The Phantom Menace were underway in product development. During this period she contributed articles to Lucasfilm’s official fan magazine Star Wars Insider.
Portillo moved to Industrial Light & Magic to pursue her interest in Visual Effects. She then went on to Tippett Studio where she continued her production experience on such films as Blade II, Matrix Revolutions and Constantine to name a few. Portillo has just entered her nineteenth year in the entertainment industry and couldn’t be any more excited to continue to be a part of the Star Wars legacy.
Look for Athena Portillo at several panels on the Celebration stages.
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Best Known For: Voice Actor – The Emperor, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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Best Known For: Author/Writer, Lucasfilm
Author of The Making of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, New York Times and London Times Bestsellers, Lucasfilm executive editor J. W. Rinzler has also written for the Emmy award-winning animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. His adaptation of George Lucas’s rough draft of “The Star Wars” was awarded the Diamond Gem Award as Best Licensed Comic for 2013–and was a #1 NY Times Bestseller. He directed the animated short Riddle of the Black Cat, which was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival and other fests. He is currently writing a novel.
Look for Jonathan Rinzler as a panelist on the Celebration stages
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Best Known For:
Lucasfilm PR Senior Writer Pete Vilmur has been writing about Star Wars history and collecting for nearly 20 years, with early articles appearing in Star Wars Insider and numerous other publications before co-authoring The Star Wars Poster Book with Steve Sansweet in 2005. The Star Wars Vault, also written with Sansweet, followed in 2007, with The Complete Vader published in 2011 with Ryder Windham.
As a Senior Editor at StarWars.com between 2003-2012, Vilmur covered happenings in the Lucasfilm universe from Revenge of the Sith through The Clone Wars animated series. Recently returning to Lucasfilm in 2014, Vilmur now works with Lucasfilm’s accomplished publicity department to promote new adventures in the Star Wars saga while remaining dedicated to recording Lucasfilm’s rich and vast history of innovation and entertainment. To that end, Vilmur has also joined members of the board at Rancho Obi-Wan in Petaluma, California, who strive to preserve and share the cultural heritage inspired by the Star Wars saga.
Look for Pete Vilmur in panels at Celebration, and on the hunt for collectibles and history, too.
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Best Known For: Klaatu the Skiff Guard, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
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