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Skytalkers

Charmaine Chan, ILM’s Lead Compositor (“The Mandalorian,” “The Last Jedi”)

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Charmaine Chan, the Lead Compositor for Industrial Light and Magic, joins Caitlin and Charlotte to discuss her work on The Mandalorian, working and controlling the Volume (StageCraft), her awesome project Women in VFX, her start in the industry, and so much more. Charmaine also answers our Star Wars Dinner question.   Charmaine’s website: http://www.charmainechan.net/  Follow Charmaine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/charmainesmchan  Women in VFX on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQjM7mDfZL6G0QwIhXR4kpA    http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher http://skytalkers.com https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.

0:15.7

Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host, Charlotte.

0:18.6

Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and we have a super special interview for you guys today. I'm your host Charlotte. Hey everyone. I'm your other host, Keatlin, and we have a super

0:21.7

special interview for you guys today. I'm really, really excited about this one. We have been in

0:27.1

contact with Charmaine Chan for a long time, and we are so excited to have her on Sky Talkers,

0:33.0

because number one, she's so cool. Number two, she's the lead compositor at Industrial Light and Magic,

0:39.2

ILM, and she's worked on the Mandalorian. She's working on a secret project right now.

0:44.1

She's worked on Jurassic World. She's worked on Star Tours. She's done so much. And she's worked

0:50.5

on The Lost Jedi. I can't believe I forgot that. Hello. And I, talking to her was really interesting because we've never had a technician, someone who works on the technical side of Star Wars on the show before. I feel like I came out of this conversation really surprised because in my head talking to someone about the ILM and the technical side of working

1:14.7

on the Mandalorian, the volume and things like that would be difficult to put into words.

1:19.5

I think we've talked about this on the show before about how difficult it is to describe

1:22.9

the volume.

1:23.6

You just have to see it and everything like that, right?

1:25.9

But I feel like when we, I left this

1:27.7

conversation, I had such a deeper respect of how creative this field is and how it really is

1:32.9

like an art form. It is an art form. It's not like an art form. And I just have such

1:39.0

tremendous respect for Charmaine. And I hope that you all enjoy this interview because I think

1:43.0

Caitlin and I certainly did.

1:51.3

Yeah, I couldn't have said it better. It was a fantastic interview and Charmaine was so lovely too. I mean, she was all the way in London at the time. And so working with the time change and everything,

1:57.5

she was just so lovely throughout all of it and such a pleasure to talk to.

2:02.2

And yeah, like Charlotte said, I think just coming away with a better understanding of just how

2:06.7

artistic and creative, something like what Charmaine does in post-production was, it was just really

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