'Star Wars: Rebels' Season 2 Spoilers: Snoke Character a Link Between Movies, Rebels Series? Read This!

"Star Wars: the Force Awakens" has successfully hit the theaters and has made worldwide success with almost 2 billion dollars earnings. The next movie in the popular franchise, "Star Wars: Rebels" will have its appearance after the winter break.

Movie Pilot reported that the "Star Wars" franchise has combined the TV shows, films, novels, comics and video games to become a single storyline. The Episode VII left the fans with many questions such as how Maz Kanata found that lightsaber, if the force ghosts are with Luke Skywalker, or if Rey is the daughter of Luke.

Before and even after the movie's release, there were multiple rumors floating around. Among them, perhaps one of the most mysterious topics, was the Supreme Leader Snoke. Many fans expected to get a better idea about Snoke after "Episode VII," but the film made the fans wishing to see even more.

Snoke has seen the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, so we expected to see him around during the prequel trilogy. The supreme leader of the Emperor Palpatine, Snoke, is force sensitive. This powerful figure took away Kylo Ren from the light side of the force and from Luke Skywalker, making Kylo pure evil.

Kylo Ren is even more evil than Anakin Skywalker, who still had some good in him and was powerful; therefore he wasn't totally emerged in the dark side. Anakin has failed the test of killing Luke, his son. By killing the Emperor and saving Luke, he restored order to the light side of the force and fulfilled the prophecy. On the other side, Kylo Ren accomplished his test to kill Han Solo, his father.

In terms of great digital effects on the silver screen, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has it all. After the overly-sanitized look of the prequel trilogy, "The Force Awakens" has returned to practical effects.

However, the film still has a high amount of computer generated effects. According to movie's visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett, cited by The Verge, from the film's 2,500 shots, around 2,100 featured digital effects. Some truly impressive digital work was put on display in "Episode VII."

Fans of GS shots can find online a four-minute video breakdown that shows how much work was needed to create the action in "The Force Awakens." The shots are built up back piece by piece after being broken down to raw footage.

Most of the video focuses on impressive aerial combat scenes. However, the most interesting material starts around the 2:50 mark in the footage and reveals how Maz Kanata was created. The digital distortion that created the distinctive Kanata character from Lupita Nyong'o's face is pretty amazing.

The ILM team that realized most of the CG work in the Episode VII explained in an interview for FXGuide details about how they brought Maz Kanata character to life. The section on CG performances including Kanata starts at the 14:33 mark.