Doug Chiang, Design Director: This varies. Sometimes George would describe in precise detail the designs that he is looking for. At other times, he simply asks us to show him something new, something different that he has never seen before. This latter request can be the most frightening since designers, like myself, like rules and parameters to work within. Without those restrictions, the possible directions are sometimes too intimidating.
Doug Chiang served as the Design Director for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, and one of three Concept Design Supervisors for Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. He studied film at UCLA before becoming a Clio Award-winning commercial director and designer. In 1989, Chiang became a Visual Effects Art Director at ILM where he worked on such films as Terminator 2, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future II and The Doors. As a director of independent films, Chiang has won many regional and national awards and his paintings are exhibited nationally in a variety of publications.
