Connections closes the Disney Gallery look at the development and creation of the Mandalorian series. From the first episode everyone who is part of the show has mentioned how important it is for them to honor the past history of Star Wars while building a new franchise with the Mandalorian. This remains consistent all the...
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Connections: Disney Gallery Mandalorian Ep 8
June 25th, 2020 by Christy Santo
Score: Disney Gallery Mandalorian Doc Ep 7
June 18th, 2020 by Christy Santo
The Score is the focus of episode seven of Disney Gallery. The viewer meets Ludwig Göransson who has composed music for Black Panther (2018), Creed (2015) and Creed II (2018). To begin his work Göransson made an order for various recorders. He would play them along with guitars, and piano to piece together music for...
Process: Disney Gallery Mandalorian Doc Ep 6
June 11th, 2020 by Christy Santo
Process, episode six of the Mandalorian documentary is short at about 18 and a half minutes. Technology talk is back this time it is used to create story boards. The characters of Mandalorian get drawn and a computer animates it. This is known as pre vis (pre-visualization). This allows all involved in the show to...
Practical: Disney Gallery Mandalorian Doc Ep 5
June 5th, 2020 by Christy Santo
Practical like Legacy episode two of Disney Gallery turns to the past to build the world of the Mandalorian and to honor early Star Wars. And like episode two it is a combination of old and new. What gets combined is robotics, prosthetic make up, four puppeteers and sometimes a person working together to make a character come to...
Technology: Disney Gallery Mandalorian Doc Ep 4
June 4th, 2020 by Christy Santo
Technology from the making of the Jungle Book and the Lion King (animation, virtual reality, animation, and set pieces) came together to create the world of the Mandalorian. Not in the same way but it does build on the world George Lucas made when he did the original Star Wars films. On the Mandalorian a...
Cast: Disney Gallery Mandalorian Doc Ep 3
May 28th, 2020 by Christy Santo
The third episode is the one I was waiting for with an exception I will mention later on. Some of the cast appears: Carl Weathers, Pedro Pascal, and Gina Carano sitting at the table with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. Also directors Debra Chow, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Rick Famuyiwa appear in clips. They talk...
Legacy: Disney Gallery – Mandalorian Documentary Ep 2
May 21st, 2020 by Christy Santo
The focus of Disney Gallery episode 2 of the Mandalorian documentary did not shed more light on the the show but instead was all about the Star Wars legacy. And the round table is back again with the one common person being Jon Favreau. In the first round John Knoll, ILM effects supervisor; Kathleen Kennedy,...
Disney Gallery: Directors: The Mandalorian Documentary
May 14th, 2020 by Christy Santo
Disney chose to go back and do a documentary on the hit show The Mandalorian. The first episode focuses on the directors. They include writer and producer Jon Favreau. Dave Filoni, Taika Waititi (he is in the cast too), Rick Famuyiwa, Deborah Chow, and Bryce Dallas Howard sitting around a table. One of our first...
Dungeons and Dragons: Online Game and Discord Game
May 7th, 2020 by Christy Santo
A few weeks ago while listening to John Campea ( He talks about television and films five or six days a week on on You-tube) mentions playing D&D with is wife. I thought given how long the online hidden object game I play is taking to update, this is a good time to get back...
Walk to End Alzheimers: For The Past, Today & the Future
August 1st, 2019 by Christy Santo
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is not a new event to me. One of my Uncles who lives in Newport Beach, has participated in it for years. And I have a maternal grandmother and great aunt who died from the disease. On July 31st, my Mom’s neurologist changed her diagnosis from a cognitive impairment to...
