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Doug Chiang is a American illustrator and art director who has worked on several major Star Wars projects. Born in Taiwan and raised in Michigan, Doug Chiang joined Industrial Light & Magic and was later selected by George Lucas to head the art departments of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. As of 2021, he has since become vice president and executive creative director at Lucasfilm, responsible for overseeing designs for all new Star Wars franchise developments, such as the sequel trilogy and anthology films, theme parks, games, and the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series.

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Doug Chiang's concept drawing "Podrace Crash"

In 1989, Chiang joined Industrial Light & Magic as a Visual Effects Art Director and worked on a number of major effects ILM projects.

He left ILM in 1995 to serve as the Design Director for The Phantom Menace. Around this time, he also helped design some of the spaceships for the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project.[2]

Chiang returned as Concept Design Supervisor for Attack of the Clones and as a concept artist for Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.[3] He is currently one of the members of the Intellectual Property Development Group.[4]

Chiang served as a production designer and co-producer for the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series.[5] He created many of the original concepts for the Third Sister's lightsaber. When the prop makers were building the unique design, they took into account Chiang's artistic vision as well as director Deborah Chow's need in bringing the action sequences with the Third Sister to life.[6] Chiang gave input into the overall look of Hayden Christensen playing Darth Vader in a bacta tank.[7]

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Drawings of KP-1 done by Doug Chiang and the art department over Camille Manet's drawing

The French fan Camille Manet was named the grand prize winner of the Build My Droid contest for her design of the droid KP-1.[8] Chiang loved Manet's concept of KP-1. In March, 2021, Chiang, Chow, and other crew members met virtually to discuss what purpose KP-1 could serve in the show. Chow suggested that the droid could be put in the "pseudo rebel base" and have some functionality. Chiang wanted to preserve all of the key elements in the concept and also bring practicality so that it could interact with the actors. Chiang and the art department did a drawing of KP-1 over Manet's drawing. The droid's head, eye, and markings were modeled after an R2 series astromech droid.[9] Manet met virtually with Chiang who put some finishing touches on KP-1 for filming.[8]

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