For Star Wars: Episode I, Production Designer Gavin Bocquet turned ideas and concept art into three-dimensional sets. "Generally my role is to produce any constructed background that you see behind the actors," he says, "whether it's an in-studio set or on location, including props and set dressing. In short, we deal with any inanimate objects." All together, he and the designers and craftspeople who work with him built around 55 sets for Episode I.

Gavin Bocquet is a graduate of Newcastle Polytechnic, where he studied product design, and the Royal College of Art receiving a Master of Design degree in 1979. He started his motion picture career as an art department draftsman on The Elephant Man and Return of the Jedi. Four years later he was promoted to Assistant Art Director for the films Return to Oz and Young Sherlock Holmes.

By the time Bocquet began work on Empire of the Sun, he was a full-fledged Art Director. Other Art Director credits include Dangerous Liaisons, Eric the Viking and Cry Freedom where he had the pleasure of working with Stuart Craig who, along with Norman Reynolds, are the men he considers to be his mentors.

Bocquet's credits as Production Designer range from the British television series, Yellowthread Street and the U.S. TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, for which he received one Emmy award and two nominations, to the feature films Kafka and Radioland Murders.