Go ahead and see it, if you haven't yet.
For an observation about BB-8's design, head under the line. I won't say much else.
You can watch the evolution of special effects in movies, if you like, but the passage of time is clearer if you listen...and consider how you listen.
I've long been a fan of Homestar Runner. One of the ways this series keeps its characters distinctive is by giving them all vastly different shapes of body and face. No two characters look anything like each other when they are talking, with the exception of Homestar and Homsar (and only then because the latter is intentionally derived from the former). They also all have very distinctive voices.
Today I'd like to put an unlikely character in the spotlight--Coach Z.