How do you design a futuristic laser sword? Take a stick, rotoscope it, and then let a sound design genius work his magic. In all of the annals of film and science fiction, you’d be hard pressed to ...

Over the last third of a century no new fiction has engaged the popular imagination and become as thoroughly essential an element of mass culture as “Star Wars.” There can’t be many people anywhere ...

The lightsaber is an intimate weapon. Its neon glow may be visible from afar, but the lightsaber is designed for face-to-face combat. It is personal, precise, and deliberate—emitting no haphazard ...

In all of the annals of film and science fiction, you’d be hard pressed to find an object as singularly identifiable as the Star Wars lightsaber. Even if you don’t like science fiction, you can ...