This Concourse Stage panel assembled several of the visual effects artists who helped define modern effects work: Richard Edlund, Ken Ralston, John Knoll, Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett. The conversation gave fans a concentrated history of Star Wars effects, from motion-control photography and model work to creature animation, digital compositing and later visual effects development. Fan accounts singled it out as a major highlight because of the combined experience on stage. Tippett’s stories about creatures such as the rancor and the broader discussion of how practical, optical and digital techniques evolved made the panel a living history of Industrial Light & Magic and its influence on the films.