Star Wars Episode III: Creating General Grievous Webisode

Webisode from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith.

Like my Facebook page:

[mranderson]

I'd like to try and clear something up. A lot of people keep commenting that General Grievous first appeared in the 2003 2D animated Clone Wars series from Cartoon Network so therefore, he must have been designed for that show first before appearing in Episode III which was released in 2005.



Season One of the 2D animated Clone Wars series first aired on the 7th of November 2003. Season Two first aired on the 26th of March 2004 with General Grievous first appearing in Season Two, Chapter 20 which aired on the 8th of April 2004. I can't find a definitive date that Clone Wars started pre-production, but there is at least eleven months between the concept art dates mentioned above and the release of season one of Clone Wars and around fifteen months between the release of Season Two leaving plenty of time for Grievous to be fully fleshed out for Episode III then being redesigned to fit in with the artwork of Clone Wars.



Thus, Grievous was designed for Episode III well before appearing in the 2D animated Clone Wars.

[TasteTheRambo]

"General Grievous needs to be scary"


*gives him asthma*

[sodacann]

"I like theesa one and theesa one, " the inner jar jar coming out of Lucas

[rustkarl]

so the magnaguards were an early design of Grievous? cool

[sharpieprime]

grievous was this close to being a special child in a floating chair.

[chikken_soup]

George is literally stamping his approval

[Tugboatpb]

Proof that doing things last second doesn't mean it's bad. Take that professors

[tohdohsibir]

The Asian guy came up with the best concept...and from an unlikely source: the top view of a spray bottle nozzle, of all things. Awesome.

[TheLtawesome]

I thought Grievous was really cool when I watched Episode 3. But I think he was way too underused, he had so much potential. 

[jlzerYT]

wow I never thought of general grievious mirroring what anakin would become thats pretty cool

[BalakeFisher]

Prequels: has a team of artists working for weeks to design one character
Sequels: Ctrl C + Ctrl V

[greg]

It’s amazing to watch George walk in and all the art department standing around nervously. George literally has a stamp of approval. LOL

[OmArvind]

Man I wish I could draw like that. look at that creativity

[pixelTRE]

Haters can hate, but George Lucas is a legend!

[andrewomahony]

Still a more developed villain than Supreme Leader Snoke.

[MrGoreasm]

Confirmed, General Grievous is based off of a spray bottle.

[Trindall]

Takes a lot of grit to deal with being so creatively open, and then have your idea be scrapped, then starting the whole creative process again. Props to these guys.

[popculturemike]

I like how one of the rejected designs clearly ended up being turned into the Magnaguards, I always love seeing pieces of concept art used in different ways.

[RetroYisus]

This was Lucas's genius ... hiring people more talented than him to shape the universe he had in his head. Then, he already has an idea of what he's been looking for but he still does not know exactly what it is and as soon as he finds it ... everything comes alive. It is creativity and imagination at its best, then that drawing will be an animated character, with a characteristic personality. The people who do not appreciate the prequels do not have IDEA of the luck that we have that they exist, at the level of performance they may not be perfect, but ... GOD! How much imagination is there. My respects for Lucas and his team back then.

[irishsean]

When I saw Grievous back in the 2003 Cartoon Network clone wars series, I thought he was the biggest, the baddest, and the best creation ever. He slaughtered 4 Jedi in one episode and that was unheard of to me. One of the jedi he bested (not killed) being Ki-Adi Mundi one of my favorite Jedi. And I thought he was a droid with lightsabers and it was awesome. But as his story got bigger and better it became known that he was more than just a simple droid. Grievous is by far my all time favorite creation during the prequels.