Theepisodes begin withstoryconceptsdirectfromGeorge Lucas, who confers with Filoni andproducerCarySilver to plot out the big beats of a forthcomingseason.
Then came an 10-year hiatus during which he had high-profile successes (buying Pixar Animation Studios from GeorgeLucas before they made it big with "Toy Story") and failures (founding NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on).