This guest session focused on Dave and Lou Elsey’s creature, prosthetic and makeup work in Star Wars. The Elseys were part of the modern practical creature tradition that helped populate the prequel films with new aliens and textured background characters. The panel likely covered design reference, sculpting, molds, appliances, paint work, on-set application and the way practical makeup interacts with costume, lighting and performance. For fans, the value was hearing how creature work happens at human scale before it becomes part of a finished Star Wars scene.