Monday, December 29, 2008

New Artist - Lucasfilm (Singapore) - Lee Stringer

I was contacted my Lee Stinger, CG Supervisor of the Star Wars TV series "The Clone Wars" and they have asked to join us! So welcome aboard to the Lucasfilm Animation Department of Lucasfilm!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

New Artist - Joel Carrol

Lucasfilm artist Joel Carrol has joined the project!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

New Celeb Artist - Dave Filoni

Director of the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Movie and the Cartoon Networks "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" weekly TV show is on the team!!

Monday, December 1, 2008

New Celeb Artist - Daniel Logan

Daniel Logan (Young Boba Fett) has joined the project!

New Celeb Artist - Ray Parks

That's right!!!! Darth Maul, Toad and Snake Eyes will be doing a helmet!


New Celeb Artist - Robot Chicken Crew

The crew from the Cartoon Networks Robot Chicken TV show have agreed to do a bucket for the project! Thanks Seth Green, Matt Senreich and the whole crew!

Ignore the big scary guy in the back...it's only me :)

New Artist - Dave Dorman

Please welcome Dave Dorman to the project!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

New Artist - Spencer Brinkerhoff III

Please welcome Lucasfilm artist Spencer Brinkerhoff III to the project!


Friday, November 21, 2008

New Artist - Fillbach Brothers

Here is our 1st tag team artist! Lucasfilm and Darkhorse Comics artist Matt and Shawn Fillbach.

New Artist - Marc Wolfe

TKP welcomes Lucasfilm artist Marc Wolfe to the project!

New Artist - Kevin Graham

The project welcomes Lucasfilm artist Kevin Graham to the project!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

New Artist - Melita Curphy

Please welcome Melita Curphy to the project!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

New Artist - John Hinton

Lucasfilm Artist John Hinton is onboard!!


Project update 11-19-08

Well the project is taking off! I have been getting emails from all kinds of artist that want to participate! As stated in earlier post I mentioned that we have 50 helmets for the project. As of 7pm 11-19-2008 we have following helmets available..

Artist - 9
501st member - 1
Reserved - 10

If you want to be apart of this project, please email me!

The reserved helmets for the big guns. I am working on a few and I need to make sure I have something for them to work on :)

I would like to thank EVERYONE that has offered to help. Especially eFX Collectibles! Without them we would not be moving forward.
Speaking of helmets, the last word I received on the helmet delivery date was mid late Jan/Early Feb 09.

New Artist - Russell Walks

Longtime Lucasfilm artist Russel Walks has joined the team!


Sunday, November 16, 2008

New Artist - Grant Gould

Lucasfilm artist, Grant Gould is going to do a bucket!


New Artist - Amy Pronovost

I would like to welcome Lucasilm Artist Amy Pronovost to the project!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

New Artist - Jessica Hickman

Lucasfilm Artist, Jessica Hickman has joined the team!


Thursday, November 13, 2008

New Artist - Jamie Snell

Lucasfilm artist Jamie Snell has agreed to join the team!


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

1st Helmet dropped off!

The 1st helmet of the project is now in the hands of the artist! I had the pleasure of dropping off a bucket to West Coast Choppers in Long Beach, Ca. We should have something really cool to look at in 30 to 60 days!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

New Artist - Tom Hodges

Lucasfilm Artist Tom Hodges joins the project!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

eFX sends me the 1st Helmet!

Bryan from eFX sent me a helmet so we could do so measurements. Just thought I would show you what the artist will be working on. (The artist helmets will be primer grey)




Friday, November 7, 2008

New Artist - Katie Cook

Lucasfilm artist Katie Cook is in!!


New Artist - Matt Busch

Lucasfilm artist and 501st MEMBER Matt Busch is onboard!


Thursday, November 6, 2008

New artist - Daniel Bergren

I would like to welcome Daniel Bergren to the artist pool! Not only is Dan an outstanding Lucasfilm artist, he is a member of the 501st!


Wednesday, November 5, 2008

New Artist - Nicole Falk

I would like to welcome Nicole Falk to our list of talented Lucasfilm artist!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

New artist - John Gilliland

I would like to welcome the newest member of our artist! Lucasfilm Licensed artist John Gilliland to the team!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

New Artist - Cynthia Cummens and Jim Tampa

2 more Star Wars artist have signed up for the project! I would like to welcome...

Cynthia Cummens


Jim Tampa

Saturday, October 25, 2008

New Celeb Artist - Jeff Garcia

The Quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jeff Garcia has agreed to sign a helmet for us.


New Artist - Lawrence Noble

The well know sculptor and artists has agreed to do a helmet!


Wednesday, October 22, 2008

New Celeb Artist - Don Bies

Don Bies, R2 driver and Boba Fett stand in, has agreed to join us!!!!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

New 501st Artist - Albin Johnson

The 501st Legion Founder, Albin Johnson, has agreed to do a helmet :)

Welcome aboard boss!

Friday, October 17, 2008

Helmets have been DONATED!!!

I received a surprising phone call yesterday from EFX Collectibles (Lucas License holder). EFX heard of our project and they want to join us in this endevor.

EFX Collectible Website

They have agreed to donate 50 ANH (Hero) Helmets for the auction! So a big thank you goes out to EFX for stepping up and helping the kids and Make A Wish!!

We do not have a firm ETA on the helmets arrival, but it should be sometime in January 2009.

So work will continue to find artist and celebs to work on these buckets!

Monday, October 13, 2008

New Artist - Joe Corroney

We got another one!!! Star Wars artist Joe Corroney has agreed to join us!

http://www.joecorroney.com/

New Celeb Artist - LucasFilm (Steve Sansweet)

Steve Sansweet from Lucas Film has agreed to do a helmet! I should say, Steve is going to have someone with Talent do the helmet :)

And we have our 1st 501st Member helmet sponsor , Chase (TK8881) from the Midsouth Garrison.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

New Artist - Tsuneo Sanda

Famed Japanese artist Tsuneo Sanda has agreed to join the event! You can see his work here...

http://www.sandaworld.com/

Friday, October 10, 2008

New Celeb artist - West Coast Choppers

Jesse James of West Coast Choppers has agreed to do a helmet for the project. Jesse is not a HM or FotL, but his helmet will bring lot of funds to the auction!!!


Thursday, October 9, 2008

New Celeb Artist - Chewbacca is in!

Peter Mayhew has agreed to do a helmet for the auction!!!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Update

We are still moving forward and things are getting exciting! Make A Wish is fully onboard. And I am working with Lucas Film on getting a few special guest involved with the project.

Chris

Monday, September 15, 2008

Update

The project is moving forward!

Just a quick status report.

1. We have been given permission to recast a helmet for the project. We should start casting soon.
2. Talked to Make a Wish and they love this idea and are on board.
3. Lesley F. from the Southern California has agreed to help gather sponsors for some of the funding that we will need.

Thanks everyone! This looks like its going to work out!!!

Chris

Friday, August 22, 2008

Project status 8-21-2008

This project is about 2 weeks old. Here are the events I need to work on..

1. 501st - Received permission to continue with the project.
2. Lucasfilm - Email sent for various request.
3. Helmets - John Bush has agreed to donate ALL the helmets.
4. Bases - Damien Metz has agreed to produce the helmet bases.
5. Corporate Sponsors - We will need a few corporate sponsors to help with some shipping and packaging cost. Someone is helping with that.
6. Helpers - Will be looking for a couple helpers to help with some coordination of events.
7. Private donations - We may open to private donation from 501st members to help with the materials and shipping cost.

I do not have a auction date yet. We are looking at doing the auction at C5 and we are in talks with Lucasfilm about that. We will need a lot of time to get all the helmets shipped to our HM's and have them worked on. Once they are done, I will secure the helmets untill the auction.

Please standby for more info...

Chris
TB0111
So Cal Garrison