Christopher Townsend, Sequence Supervisor, ILM: The Otoh Gunga Boardroom scene was challenging as we needed to create an otherworldly environment with a backdrop which was underwater. We wanted everything to have a magical feeling, with warm rich colors; that in itself presented problems as we still had to convey that water, which is inherently cold, was beyond the transparent walls. Generally the only live action parts were the actors Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor; they were shot on a partial set, but even that, along with various miniature model elements of the environment, was brought into the CG world and manipulated, before being composited together with other entirely CG elements (the board members, Boss Nass, JarJar, the fish, the exterior spheres and bubbles).
Christopher Townsend was a Sequence Supervisor on Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. He worked on Dennis Muren's unit and oversaw the look and lighting of many of the scenes with Boss Nass, including the Otoh Gunga Boardroom and Naboo Swamp scenes, as well as several ground battle scenes.
