So I plugged in my external drive this morning and the icon popped up in the task bar and I just couldn’t believe that I hadn’t noticed this before.  The USB icon looks like a Mandalorian Skull.  On Boba Fett’s left shoulder pad is the icon of the mandalorian skull.  The similarity is just uncanny. 

I’m working on a couple of different projects right now and have been making some backgrounds.  It’s pretty tough work!  I start out with a rough sketch for the animatic.  Then I clean it up in flash and add a depth of field and lighting effect in photoshop.

The Shooter fire extinguisher from Yanko Design makes me want to yell, “FIRE!”  heheh

This Nerf inspired weapon extinguisher fires CO2 cartridges, has a laser guidance system to help you aim, and an alarm button.  My birthday is coming up…

One of the things that I was most excited about with the new Star Wars movie was all of the little details.  StarWars.com has an article about all of the little details that you may have missed the first time you saw Clone Wars.  Click HERE to jump to the article.

When I was out at the San Diego ComicCon, I went to the Lucasfilm party.  There at the party they had gifts for the guests.  The coolest of these being the Clone Wars Ammo box with a patch inside.  I was checking out the patch and realized that it was made to look like one of the painting that the WWII pilots would put on their planes.  I think that its called nose art.  I love the patch, but didn’t know what to do with it.

Then it hit me!  The Star Wars fan costuming club is called the 501st.  The name is derived (I suppose) from the WWII 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment.  So I thought that the perfect way to wear the patch was to find an WWII officer shirt!  I used my Indiana Jones shirt and it worked perfect.  The finishing touch was of course to add my pin from the Philippine Outpost of the 501st Legion of Stormtroopers. 

At San Diego ComicCon Otto said that he was going to use the ammo box to store his pens.  I thought that was a great idea.  I wonder if I’ll have any trouble flying with an Ammo can in my luggage? 

I know it’s a bit overdue, but I had a bit of trouble getting everything together.  I have thankfully been very busy lately.

The Clone Wars opened on August 15th, shortly after my son’s birthday.  One of his birthday presents was to  go to see the movie.  I found out that the Rebel Legion and the 501st would be presenting Dan Harkins of Harkins Theaters with an honorary memebership.  So, we went to the movie early and then hung out after word to see everyboday and the presentation.  I had my little old Canon digital camera with me and I shot some photos and a video.

So I was talking with my wife last night about some magnets that the kids have and that made me think, “What if I was magnetized?  All this metal stuff would come flying at me.  I’d be like Magneto.  I’d be attractive.  I wish I was attractive.  Magneto is attractive”. 

I used a little photoshop magic today to put together the above image.

When I was promoting my Star Wars Celebration Japan Print I made a little animation from it.  Bonnie over at the official Star Wars Blog posted about it and it caught the eye of Mark Newbold from the website Lightsabre.  Over on the Star Wars Blog, Mark wrote,

“Just added it to Lightsabre, and laughed out loud at how cool it is.

Thought it was a shame that the Cantina music couldn’t be used, but having watched it a couple of times I kind of prefer the music that’s in there.

Great stuff Spencer, really liked that and we’d love to interview you on Lightsabre if you ever find the time!”.

Thanks for the Plug Mark!  The interview is available on Lightsaber.

I’ve finally received my sketch cards back from Topps.  I did 106 cards for the Star Wars:Clone Wars set and as part of my payment for the work I choose 6 cards to keep.  I have decided to put the first card up on eBay.  The card fits into a larger illustration to complete the picture.  I have made a custom matte for the card and sketch frame to fit in a 9×12 frame.  I’m excited to see how this goes.

A friend of mine told me once that I was pretty talented, but if I wanted to really make it I should probably create my own content instead of making Star Wars stuff.  Leland Chee has found a way to make a living through his love of Star Wars.  There’s a great article about him on WIRED.  Here’s a bit about what he does.  “His official title is continuity database administrator for the Lucas Licensing arm of Lucasfilm—which means Chee keeps meticulous track of not just the six live-action movies but also cartoons, TV specials, scores of videogames and reference books, and hundreds of novels and comics.”

pretty cool stuff.

He spends most of his time updating the database.

The demo of the Force Unleashed will be available tomorrow.  Here’s a new video from Wired interviewing project lead Haden Blackman.