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A report on the TheForce.net Web site quotes McCallum telling the magazine, 'We have a production art department in London that's started, feverishly. We have a costume department that starts next week in Sydney, and then the production art department moves to Sydney in the beginning of 2003. So all systems are go'.
McCallum added, 'We start our basic construction of the things that are needed in each department [in Australia]. In about two weeks, we'll have our new set director, Richard Roberts, come into Sydney to scout locations and service companies. This is just the beginning of the preproduction on the film'.
The producer said that the conceptual art department at Skywalker Ranch in California is in full swing, with about 20 artists at work on Episode III. As of November 2002, they'd already created 1,500 illustrations, McCallum said. 'We'll reach 10,000 before we start shooting'.
As for the production itself, 'We won't have a completely
new [digital] camera', McCallum said. 'We'll have
a much more sophisticated, hot-rodded camera. It's
much more sophisticated now, with better resolution,
better picture quality and colour imagery'.
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