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Oct 6, 2026
578: Lucas Museum Deep Dive with Tom Spina
578: Lucas Museum Deep Dive with Tom Spina
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Richard WoloskiHOST
Tom Spina Designs had made, let's point out that the costumes were all screen used except for the farm boy Luke, right?
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23:33Tom SpinaGUEST
And it, and it's probably another, you know, reason that they come to a studio like ours.
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23:43Tom SpinaGUEST
At the moment, oh, gosh, I would have to ask the keeper of the binder, but Christine has a board at the shop right now with all of the costume displays we have going.
9 MINS LATER
578: Lucas Museum Deep Dive with Tom Spina
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30:28Tom SpinaGUEST
He started with us a few years ago, a local guy from the same town as our studio.
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30:34Tom SpinaGUEST
We actually were on like a countrywide search for an in-house digital artist and wound up finding a guy that was 0.6 miles away from the studio and And he had to learn a bit on the job.
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30:46Tom SpinaGUEST
He was still, you know, getting his footing, but he learned so fast and he's so freaking talented.
30 MINS LATER
Deep Dive: Gremlins Edition
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Dave MandelHOST
was it later on in the second movie that they made some giant heads for close-ups and stuff?
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29:56Tom SpinaGUEST
And we worked on a giant Daffy and a giant Gizmo with the Rambo thing on his head and everything.
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30:12Tom SpinaGUEST
So a normal mogwai is like, you know, less than 12 inches tall, right? Like 10 inches, something like that.
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30:22Tom SpinaGUEST
And in fact, on both films, they used swap-out faces so that they could have different expressions... and the mechanics wouldn't have to go as far.
11 MINS LATER
Ryan CondalHOST
Are the first film, Mogwais and Gremlins, or either or, more prone to decay and destruction over time because of the way they were built? Or is it sort of...
