The Ewok movies proved an opportunity for ILM to use a technique innovated for 2001: A Space Odyssey called latent image matte painting. However, go motion was too expensive for the budgets of the Ewok films, so stop motion was used to realize creatures such as the Gorax. Visual effects īoth Ewok films were some of the last intensive stop-motion animation work ILM produced, as by the early 1980s, the technique was being replaced by go motion, an advanced form of animation with motorized puppets that move while the camera shutter is open. Prior to the movie's release, Johnston also wrote and illustrated a book about Ewoks, The Adventures of Teebo: A Tale of Magic and Suspense. Joe Johnston, an art director at ILM for years and one of the key concept artists of the classic Star Wars trilogy, acted as production designer and second-unit director. Working from a story written by George Lucas and a screenplay by Bob Carrau, director John Korty transformed the scenic northern California redwood forests into the forest moon of Endor. John Korty, who had directed the Lucas-produced Twice Upon a Time, was selected as director. The producers initially conceived of the project as a cross between " Hansel and Gretel" and Tarzan of the Apes.
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When shopping the film around, Smith discovered that none of the TV networks at the time were interested in airing a half-hour special, but ABC showed interest in a two-hour movie of the week the project was expanded to fill the request. Lucas also hired Bob Carrau, a personal assistant, to co-write the story with him. Smith to produce the film, after Smith had stepped down as the manager of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) following his work on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Lucas assumed greater control over a planned half-hour television project about Ewoks. George Lucas had allowed the Star Wars universe to be produced for television in 1978 with the Star Wars Holiday Special, which proved to be an embarrassment.
The Towani family (Catarine, Jeremitt, Mace and Cindel) are stranded. On the forest moon of Endor, the Towani family starcruiser lies wrecked. It was followed by a sequel, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, in 1985. The film was given a limited international theatrical run, for which it was retitled Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure. It takes place on the moon of Endor, and features the Ewoks, who help two young human siblings as they try to locate their parents. The Ewok Adventure is a 1984 American fantasy adventure film based in the Star Wars universe.
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