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Star Wars Trivia – Did You Know? #3

Here’s today’s trivia question Star Wars geeks! Think you know the answer without using Google?

Which species stole the plans to the Death Star?

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Again, I should have known this one because well, I’ve seen these movies so many times it’s almost embarrassing to admit lol 😂

And the answer is:

Bothans!

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Let me know if you knew this one in the comments. If you’ve got any other…

Adobe Photoshop for Beginners: Transform and Wrap

After finishing off Smart Objects in the last post, we are now moving onto using Transform and Wrap and getting very close to the end of this course!

If you’d like to see the rest of my mini-reviews for this tutorial series, you can do so here.

In today’s lesson we will be using the following assets:

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As with the previous tutorial,…

Welcome to All My New Readers!

I haven’t done a new readers post in some time and I have slowly amassed quite a few newcomers to my humble little blog so I’d like to officially say “Hi there!” and thank you so much for following me.

I do have three blogs that I spend my time on every day – this blog is purely for creativity and Star Wars. Sometimes I feature posts on other topics but not very often. I do also have a blog…

The Meaning of Star Wars From George Lucas

I saw this tweet on Phil Szostak’s twitter feed and it’s a very important message delivered by Lucas himself back in 2005:

“Don’t let [#StarWars] take over your lives… The point of the movie is to *get on* with your lives, to take that challenge. To leave your uncle’s moisture farm, go out into the world, change it and save the universe.” – George Lucas, @SW_Celebration III, 2005

I think it’s…

Star Wars Cinematic Universe – Behind the Scenes #13

Mark Hamill has become something of a master at debunking Star Wars #fakestories. He usually does this via his Twitter page, where fans routinely ask about one particular scene – one I didn’t even notice in the many times I’ve watched this movie.

Here is the scene in question where fans are saying that Mark Hamill is calling Princess Leia by her real name “Carrie!”

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Pick Me Up Fridays – What is Happiness to You?

It’s Pick Me Up Friday once again and today I thought I would put out some random thoughts on happiness and hopefully, get input from my lovely readers.

It’s kind of strange when you think about what happiness is right because it’s such a subjective thing. It can change for you in a second or be something you have secretly wanted your entire life. The thing with happiness is that it’s not one…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Era – Who is Darth Malgus?

You may have heard of Darth Malgus – given name Veradun who was a very powerful Sith lord during the Old Republic time line. I have posted about him before because he was one of the most skilled and formidable Sith warriors to exist at the time and was a successful warlord who lead countless missions against the Galactic Republic.

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Something quite scary about Darth…

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo in the Battle of the Force’s Will

That’s an odd title for a post, I know but I’ll explain what is meant by “battle of the force’s will”. The Force as most understand it is exactly as Obi-Wan described it to Luke in A New Hope:

The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.

It’s what gives any practitioner of the ways…

Adobe Photoshop for Beginners: Smart Objects

After finishing off Selections and Masking last post, we are now moving onto using Smart Objects.

If you’d like to see the rest of this tutorial series, you can do so here.

In today’s lesson we will be using the following assets:

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Part of this tutorial talks about vector files and Adobe Illustrator because the icon file you…

Star Wars Trivia – Did You Know? #2

Today’s trivia question is a little harder because well, a lot of my readers know more about Star Wars than I do! So I think it’s time to throw out the tougher questions (try not to use Google if you can):

Early story drafts for what would become The Empire Strikes back would have changed this character into the first clone we saw in the Star Wars films. Who was it?

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I had no idea of the…

Is The Mandalorian Carrying the Star Wars Franchise?

Do you think The Mandalorian is the best thing Lucasfilm and Disney has done in the last five or so years? Do you think its success is “carrying” the Star Wars franchise on its shoulders?

I was inspired to write this article when I saw this meme posted on one of the many subreddits for star wars that I follow:

Via RedditThe skywalker saga’s failure to deliver

With the mixed success of…

Star Wars Cinematic Universe – Behind the Scenes #12

This new image of director Rian Johnson and Adam Driver has recently surfaced on social media and it came with an interesting blurb as seen below:

https://twitter.com/AdamDriverFiles/status/1313917560568475648?s=20 Via The Adam Driver Files on Twitter

And here is the image itself for those wanting a closer look at the additional text explaining how Rian Johnson and his team kept the idea of…

Pick Me Up Friday – Chinese Proverb on Happiness

There are A LOT of happiness quotes out there. So I went through a bunch of them and most of them seemed pretty generic – things you’ve already heard or seen on the internet. But then I came across this one so I added it to a graphic for today’s message:

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I don’t know if you can make happiness a goal but I do know that it’s possible to be as happy as you can, even…

The Star Wars Fandom – Check Out This Amazing Din Djarin Cosplay!

I am not a Cosplayer myself, but dude… this is amazing and worth the blog post!

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The Cosplayer has their own Instagram account as well which you can check out right here and their Reddit profile is here.

It’s amazing how dedicated some fans are to their respective fandoms and honestly, this looked like it would have taken a year to put together – it looks so real, right?

Attenti…

Who Destroyed Luke’s Jedi Temple?

After reading several different sources of information about this event in the Skywalker saga time line, I wanted to put this question to my readers to see if anyone has a different opinion.

Matt Martin (Lucasfilm) Makes References to Ben Solo

According to Matt Martinof the Lucasfilm Story Group, Ben Solo was still responsible for the burning and subsequent destruction of Luke’s Jedi…

The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian

The new art book for The Mandalorian now has a sneak peek reveal for fans thinking of buying it. I love the art books so much because well, I am a creative person and star wars art is my thing! But just look at these beautiful pieces of art:

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I love the concept art for any of the Star Wars films or TV shows because it gives you a glimpse into the world from the eyes of…

The Star Wars Fandom – A Special Fandom Experience

I came across this really special fandom post on Reddit that I really wanted to share with my readers. It’s something special from Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher and just goes to show how amazing being a fan of Star Wars can be.

It’s also much nicer to read wonderful stories like this than read hateful posts and toxicity so I’m trying to spread the more positive things about being a star wars fan…