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Hello there!

I just wanted to write in to express my gratitude and ask a couple questions.

Long story short, I gave up on both the EU and Disney Star Wars canons some time ago, instead choosing to vet the works myself and add them to my own list. This has brought me much joy and breathed new life into this franchise for me, because now, anything I don't like, I can just ignore.

My focal point for vetting is involvement from George Lucas, and so naturally The Clone Wars (Seasons 1-6, anyways) got accepted, and is a huge part of my own canon.

But in doing the research for this project, I have discovered so much more Star Wars to take in than I ever had before. Case in point is the webcomics for The Clone Wars, which I had no idea existed before doing the research for all this in the past year or so.

I was looking for these webcomics in an idle way for a little bit, and finally sat down with Google, and what should I find but your blog?

It's a treasure trove of all materials related to The Clone Wars, so I wanted to say thank you! I am especially grateful to get to read these webcomics, since they were tied to Adobe Flash in some way on the official website, and cannot be viewed there any more within the limits of what I'm willing to do, and so I had accepted that that was lost for me. But your blog has made it not so! So thank you very much! And now, my questions:

Do you mind if I save the webcomics from your blog onto my computer?

Do you happen to have, or know where I could read, copies of Bait, Act on Instinct, or The Valsedian Operation? These were the only complete comics that I could not find on your blog.

Could you tell me more about the UK Magazine? This is another thing about which I know nothing and would love to learn.

Are you aware that the last two pages of webcomic #6, The Fall of Falleen, seems to have the last two pages swapped?

Is there a page missing from your post of Hunting the Hunters, Part 1? Parts 2 and 3 have the pages with the game tease lines at the bottom, but then have another page afterwards, whereas Part 1 does not.

Regarding both the Dark Horse monthly series and the graphic novellas, do you know if these have been collected anywhere, if they remain in print, and where I could buy them online that isn't Amazon?

Thank you very much, and clear skies!

Thank you for the message! Glad to be of help. To answer:

Is it okay to save posts from this blog on my computer?

Yes! Please save anything you like on this blog rather. I started this to offload my hard drive and prevent them from being lost media lol

post issues:

Bait should be the S1E11 accompanion? I did post it just forgot to tag 😅

I swear a few years ago Act on Instinct and The Valsedian Operation were availabe just on dubious free read comic online sites... don't seem to be anymore. here you go

Fixed the pages in Q4 & Q5. Thanks for telling me!

UK Magazine

Its proper name is Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic. UK got a Clone Wars magazine because the publisher, Titan Comics, is a UK-based company, the one that makes Star Wars Insider.

The monthly issue features episode guide, games and an original comic strip. It was later reprinted in the US as a bi-monthly. The blog followed the UK publishing order since that's chronological and collected in full. Some issues were left out in the US reprint.

Dark Horse series

Both the monthly series and novellas started in Sept 2008 but the monthly series only lasted to Jan 2010 while novellas continued every few months until after the Disney buyout.

No omnibus were made or planned. So if you want a print version, you could only look in the library or the second-hand market.

dubious free read comic online sites have the full set fyi

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Hello. Do you have any information about unproduced TCW comic stories. I once came across a comic artist's blog who claimed to have sumbitted a pitch about Anakin and Boba Fett teaming up on Mos Eisley for a joint investigation. The story would have seen Anakin confess to Boba about killing the Tusken Raiders as they both discussed respectivly wanting to avenger a parent. I lost track of the blog and the comicbook artist's name but maybe you also stumbled on the same pitch.

Sorry, I've never heard of it. Sounds like a cross between Boba and Anakin's meeting in the Legends young reader novel Boba Fett: Pursuit and the Boba-Bane Tatooine arc. But that pitch sure is interesting!

if anyone knows anything, please reply/reblog with comments!

#the clone wars #boba fett #anakin skywalker #star wars comics #nothing came up when i ran searches with the artists either #frankly i've never heard of unproduced comic stories because Dark Horse was reduing the publication to yearly novellas #so i thought the comics line is just naturally dying + replaced by the magazine short comics #cwainbox #2309140517

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thank you :)

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Hello there! I don’t really know if you can help me out here, but I remember hearing about this comic (legends I think) for Clone Wars. Kit Fisto and Ahsoka were visiting a clone trooper in a medbay; he’d lost his legs, and Kit wanted to talk to him. Ahsoka wasn’t too thrilled. The clone then tells the story of how he lost his legs, along with all of his brothers. Is there any way you could find that comic, because I have noooo idea where to look :/

Gerenal Kenobi!

Hi! Usually obscure things like this are from the magazine comics. A quick search on Kit Fisto's Legends Wookieepedia page tells me what I need.

"A Trooper's Tale"

The Clone Wars Magazine UK #6.8 / US #5

Writer: Robin Etherington

Artist: Andres Ponce

Named Clones: 182nd Legion's scout squad: Sergeant Marrt and Trooper Chatter, Knuckles and Recon.

Fun facts: "Great Kamino!", field burial, FEX-M3 nerve gas grenade (banned)

#the clone wars #kit fisto #ahsoka tano #clone troopers #cmagcom #a trooper's tale #comics #cwainbox #2111 #sorry my laugh was really cruel when the clone says 'for your ears only' and they sent two jedi without ears to see him #thanks for sharing! #The magazine comics is 'future' on my to-do list but i do think they're pretty important and fun so i'd get around to posting them #just maybe in a few months unprompted #this blog isn't dead i'm just busy becoming a summer blog #rwggrace

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Any resources for texturing in the clone wars style?

sorry, I don't have a helpful answer >.<

Now, do you mean 1) How do they add/render textures in the show? or 2) How can one achieve a similar ‘texture’ as a fanartist?, 3) examples of textures used in the show, or do you mean something else?

Furthermore, what kind of texture are you referring to? fabrics, nature, materials, hair and skin or the brushstroke art style, for example? I am not an artist myself so I can’t answer anything about how to draw those in the Clone Wars style, and the few sources explaining the show’s process, of which most focus on the first three seasons, don’t go too deep in the technical aspect. My go-to guy is Joel Aron, CG Lighting and Effects Supervisor. He explained stuff like snow (1.15), lava (2.03), fire (2.05), water (3.01-02), mist (3.12) in the featurettes.

For fabrics, they usually have a swatch of pattern, then repeat and overlay it on the costume. The "repeat and overlay" seems like a pretty common cheat, since that’s how they do it for the lava on Mustafar and the Nal Hutta landscape. Hair and skin is something I barely remember hearing, so nothing to add there yet.

In Dave Filoin's words, he "have texture artists who literally paint every single character right down to their eyeball, because [he] wanted that human touch on everything". In The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2009), there’s this passage about finding the show’s “painterly” style:

While the studios struggled to streamline the technical elements of the production, Winder and Filoni hired Andrew Harris, who had worked on the Matrix trilogy and Cars (2006), as CG supervisor to help set up the pipeline as well as hone the look of the show. "The biggest challenge was how to accomplish the interesting and illustrative look that Dave had imagined for the show," Harris says. "Fortunately, Dave and I shared a similar sense for what the show needed to look like. He wanted something richer, warmer, and ultimately more hand-touched and gritty. He wanted a Ralph McQuarrie painting."

Realizing that "painterly" look took a long time, during which Filoni experimented by actually painting on the characters to simulate a textured style. "Looking at Ralph's paintings, you have this whole vocabulary of strokes and gobs of paint that define shapes and tex-tures," Filoni says. "I started doing these chalky and oily textures on the characters to see how that looked and also how we were going to deal with shadow and color."

Filoni wanted a hand-brushed paint job over everything and urged the artists to stop gunning for photographic realism and opt instead for artistic interpretation. "I needed them to stop thinking about what photographic wood or leather looks like and just paint wood or paint leather." Texture artists Tim Brock and Steve Ly latched onto that idea and applied the painterly approach to character models with astonishing results.

While the faux paint jobs looked good on paper, capturing them on actual frames of animation was another story. But, like many great discoveries, the key breakthrough was found by accident while the team was looking at a render of a droid.

"The render looked like a small toy of a super battle droid," says Filoni. "It looked like a great toy, but that was not the way I wanted to go." Harris took the render home and returned with a very simple solution. "I turned off the specular highlights and focused heavily on allowing the hand-painted textures to be seen," remembers Harris. "Oddly, the things that we chose not to use in the show are some of the things that you normally rely on computers to provide quickly and easily."

Harris's solution was the final key ingredient in the development of the show—the team decided that, from that moment forward, there would be no reflections or highlights on the models. "We don't care if something plastic reflects light or that the surface of wood reflects it a little less," recalls Filoni. "We just wanted the painted texture to be the end-all. That was how the show was going to work."

#Star Wars Insider has couple more design crew interviews #haven't read them yet but it's on schedule #cwainbox #the clone wars #Anonymous #art book

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Will you add a session for Bad Batch?

For their involvement in S7 and recycled concept art from legacy arcs, yes. For the Bad Batch series, no. The series' resources comes exclusively from starwars.com and there is little point in copy-pasting that. If there are comprehensive reference posts made by fans with sources from the Bad Batch series, I'm not opposed to reblogging it.

TLDR, specifically, from me, no. But they still get a tag.

#stuff you see here comes from excavations and persumably #tbb crew still under nda to add it to their profolio #altoriego is the only artist i know posts tbb stuff #0214 #cwainbox

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Have you found any pictures/videos of them making the models for the show?

I assume you have read Darren Marshall's interview? His website also has a vast gallery of maquettes in different angles. There are two paragraphs in the Clone Wars art book about rigging and modelling respectively, but if you’re looking for visual references in particular... I’d recommend

1. Animating Darth Maul

Joel Aron goes through how to translate Ray Park from live-action and what technique they use to make him a distinctive villain.

2. A Tour Behind Star Wars The Clone Wars (for 4.11-4.13 slaves arc)

A general rundown of the entire production process. About two minutes in, Keith Kellog, Animation Supervisor, and Kilian Plunkett, Lead Designer, explain their jobs along footage of rigging an Ahsoka model and some Zygerrian maquettes.

In terms of vehicle models or large-scale set pieces, there are even less footage of them making it. Season 1 featurettes are the most technically-oriented of all seasons and have some more insights about the design influences for spaceships and planets, unless you have a particular subject in mind.

#please tell me if I misread your question! #Insider has a couple more stories about practical models from the films but that's a story for another time #cwainbox #the clone wars #0522 #Anonymous

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Hi!! I was wondering if maybe you'd seen something I'm looking for. I'm certain it wasn't canon, just a few pages in a magazine or noncanon ref book, but it was along the lines of 'Meet the Clone Troopers' and had several cameos like Fox, Fives, Rex and details about them? I know it wasn't the character encyclopedias

Hello!

Well, this sounds like the "I am a Clone Trooper" Little Golden Book out earlier this month.

There are not much content that feature Fives alongside them and this book is the first one I think of.

#i hope this is what you're looking for because the question was already quite specific - that's good! #the clone wars #cwainbox #clone troopers #Anonymous

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Hello! I happened across a post of your blog about ventress’s yellow lightsaber! Very informative! Also, it had an image from the 2014-2016 run of Star Wars fact file? Can I ask how you came across that, given that that run is so hard to find

Hello there! 

Hours on google: source.

(post in case)

#reverse image search leads you to reddit only #when the second image resurface in Reddit Jan 2020. the person was asking for a source too. #the formatting and lack of page number tells me it is a less-serious/official reference guide. #most likely a magazine but definitely not official like Insider. #the length is too long for a children's magazine so I check the company that made the Build Your Millennium Falcon/R2 subscriptions #bam. they revived the fact files in 2014! which matched the timeline of the article as post-July 2015 #since it spoils Dark Disciple #But! Not even wookiepedia has a comprehensive list of content to zero in on the issue #and their own website returns 404 on the discontinued line #so I just cross-check with what's available on Wookiee with the article tag on the top corners of that page #by the process of elimination and found the source on twitter! #cwainbox #1136 #i tried. couldn't find scans. even before the ultimate guru. #there are scans for the 2000 run though #i looked in like. four languages if you wanna brag.

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Hi its me again,the same person who asked about textures earlier. I was wondering how can I achieve a similar texture as a fanart? Thanks

hello :)

sorry that's out of my depths, I can't draw or paint. The references or guides from fans I've come across lean closer to photorealism and unwhitewashing the clones, so it wouldn't exactly be the show's style. Others are more about approximating the show's angular character designs than painting its textures.

@starwarsgallery was kind enough to offer a tip to your last ask here!

If any artist would like to share, please chime in!

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I appreciate what you do with all my heart, thank you so much!

thank you all for your support! (^_^)v

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I'm not the texture asker but what you posted regarding the animation style was incredibly interesting, thank you for finding it!

Glad to help, thanks! :)

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