News Summary:
On February 3, 2026, authors Jamie Benning, Mark Newbold, and Clayton Sandell published a story on Skywalker Sound's Medium page, detailing Skywalker Ranch as a creative refuge where words, music, sounds, and images are shaped to enhance each other. Earlier, on January 2, 2026, Skywalker Sound implemented a high-performance distributed storage system to manage a quick shift to hybrid work, maintaining cost-effective access to media production assets while ensuring scalability for new projects. Previously, on December 24, 2025, Lucasfilm honored pioneering sound designer Ben Burtt for reaching 50 years of service, marking him as the first at the company to achieve this milestone. Burtt began as a one-man sound design team on *Star Wars: A New Hope* (1977), giving the iconic movie franchise its voice. This follows the November 24, 2025, discussion by Re-recording Mixer and Sound Supervisor Tormod Ringnes on reimagining the sound for *Tron: Ares*, addressing the film franchise's iconic sonic legacy.
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