Ahsoka’s Elissa Alcala & Devon Patterson On Crafting Star Wars Costumes With Shawna Trpcic
Summary Ahsoka brought a slew of characters from creator Dave Filoni’s animated series Star Wars Rebels to live-action and featured the return of some of Star Wars’ most iconic characters. Ahsoka Tano, Grand Admiral Thrawn, and even Anakin Skywalker were brought to life through a combination of VFX wizardry and practical costuming and makeup.
Elissa Alcala & Devon Patterson On Being Emmy-Nominated For Ahsoka Screen Rant: Congratulations on the Emmy nomination. I imagine that’s bittersweet, but how are you feeling about all your work being recognized in this way? Elissa Alcala: Also, we had to consider that something that is animated isn't necessarily going to translate into being wearable on an actual human being. It was really important for us, as fans also, to keep as much of the animated costume represented in the live action, but then make sense of why it's on a living human being. That was really important for Dave as well. He didn't want us to just regurgitate the animated.
How did your department—you two, Shauna, and everyone else—work? How were things handed off, and what did each of you dive into the most? Alcala & Patterson Detail The Creation Of Enoch & A Night Trooper Army One of my favorite parts of this whole series is Thrawn and his people. Enoch the stormtrooper is unlike anything you've ever seen in Star Wars. Can you talk about how that character specifically came together and why he looks the way that he does?
Elissa Alcala: Dave was always really good with coming in and giving backstory to not just Shauna, but our whole team. He would take the time to sit there with the team and explain the backstory of a costume or where the inspiration came from so that our team understood what this costume needed to look like. Elissa Alcala: The sheer volume of costumes we had to make. For our Night Troopers, I feel like we were working pretty much until the hour on the hour to have those guys done.
Elissa Alcala: No. Shauna would never. We always plan for the worst-case scenarios. That is something that myself, Devin, and our team would always consider. Worst case scenario, someone's costume is going to break, so you may have only seen 40 to 56 troopers on screen at a time, but the reality is that we had 10 more made that we could pull pieces from just in case something broke.
The background actors came in for these fittings not knowing what they were coming in for. They would come into our warehouse space and our key costumers and our background fitters would be putting stuff on, and I would come into the room and I'd just stand there. All of a sudden, this person would have this realization of being like, “Am I on Star Wars?” Some of them would be really big fans, and they would start crying because they had no idea, because secrecy. It was always really fun.
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