To pay homage to the least divisive of Disney era Star Wars movies, I'll be feeding this concept art/behind the scenes thread throughout the day.
A really beautiful movie.
Rogue One (2016)
Let's start with the fantastic U-wing, a ship whose design fits perfectly into the context of the film. It could have appeared in 1977. It obviously took a gigantic iteration work to get there.
"I worked on the development of the U-Wing & was also hands on with general art department models duties such as 3D printing, kit basing dressing for the model sets and producing model assets."
"John Knoll was a hero of mine growing up, getting into VFX. At some point in the industry, if you’re not given a directing gig straight from film school, you have to pick a career. I picked visual effects."
@euisung As you know, the Ghost from Rebels (2014-2018) appears on Scarif.
@halhickel (animation supervisor on Rogue One): “It’s just casual and friendly contact between folks at Lucasfilm working on different aspects of the SW universe and going, ‘Can we put your ship in our movie?’”
@euisung@halhickel John Knoll: “I was chatting with Dave Filoni. [I asked] ‘How would you feel about having the Ghost show up somewhere in Rogue One?’ They were all excited about the idea.”
Ghost 3D models for Rebels (up) & Rogue One (down)
@euisung@halhickel That's how you do more than an easter egg: you're creating lore and connection.
The Ghost will appear again in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). And I'm sure it won't be far from Ahsoka, in 2023.
@euisung@halhickel The best easter egg: 39 years after Star Wars (1977), the reappearance of @AngusMacGold
as Gold Leader/Jon "Dutch" Vander (and the late Drewe Henley as Red Leader, too).
"They contacted me sometime in early October and said they wanted to use the footage? I said, "Well yeah."
@euisung@halhickel@AngusMacGold Director Gareth Edwards: "We got the neg documents and found the clips from ANH that hadn’t been used. And there’s pilot photography and lines that were never featured. Through the magic of @ILMVFX , they cut round them and manipulated them and stuck them into our cockpits".
@euisung@halhickel@AngusMacGold@ILMVFX@AngusMacGold
: "We re-recorded the dialogue for the sequence. Just little tweaks here and there – but it was important to change it, because obviously you couldn’t use the same dialogue at Yavin as you could with this sequence.”
@euisung@halhickel@AngusMacGold@ILMVFX Gareth Edwards: "It’s the sort of thing you think, ‘how many people will notice?’ Do you know what I mean? It’s like, is this a lot of effort for very little reward?”
And only 2 months before release. But we noticed, and it's a beautiful tribute.
"Gareth Edwards: It was a last-minute decision, and credit goes to Jabez Olssen, who was an editor on the film. We always wanted Vader in the movie as much as possible without playing that card too often."
@euisung@halhickel@AngusMacGold@ILMVFX@JonMcCoyArt "There were some other things in the works, and maybe we should stay clear of Vader a little bit. But as the film progressed it got clearer that this is that story that, if you watch the beginning of A New Hope, he’s obviously very pissed. [Laughs]"
Art by Yanick Dusseault:
@euisung@halhickel@AngusMacGold@ILMVFX@JonMcCoyArt "They have these plans, and he wants them desperately back. It feels like he was very intimately involved in some way in the moments that led to them being stolen. So we were always trying to fit him into the end of the film."
@euisung@halhickel@AngusMacGold@ILMVFX@JonMcCoyArt@MattAllsopp1 "I feel like the new future of Star Wars is that kind of passing of the torch, rather than one person defining it all. It’s this thing that lots of artists can play with and bring their voice to. Like, we see different versions of that world. I think that’s more exciting."
James Cameron: "I studied physics and astronomy in college and I kind of appreciated how difficult it would be and how a lot of spacecraft designs in movies were pretty whimsical. So I came up with this idea for a starship that had the engine..."
"...engine section far away because of the radiation and so on. I could just go down that nerdy rabbit hole of figuring out the tech, and I think I’ve maintained that as a motif throughout my science fiction body of work..."
ISV Venture Star in Avatar (2009):
James Cameron: "We had all these movies that showed rocket ships and they were all pointy and they had fins at the bottom. That’s how they landed and went to other planets."
Lately I've been chatting with a couple of artists that are no longer on social media -and are sometimes hesitant to answer my questions- as they've suffered the wrath and relentlessness of fans from different IPs, about... fictional ship designs.
Fictional. Ships. It's so dumb.
I know that a very small part of the fandoms are rude people but it's a shame. Whether we like a design or not, it's still a work. For entertainment.
It's so stupid lol
I block disrespectful people here, it's a shame I can't do that elsewhere.
I remember those disrespectful people I used to tell to please stay polite like we were IRL. They replied that "this is not how the internet works".
Internet, we do what we want with it. Well if you want to be an asshole you can but what a waste of time and energy lol
The Last Jedi (2017) was released 4 years ago today.
I love this film, really needless to tell me again that you don't like it, on the other hand our respective opinions don't prevent us from enjoying together the sublime concept art by James Clyne
You can't be disappointed by Lucasfilm design team work.
[Thread] Foundation (AppleTV +): Season 1 review (spoiler-free)
I had the opportunity to see the season ahead. Now I can't wait for the second season to be greenlighted, and I'm ready for the hoped-for 8-season cycle.
Did you like the first 2 episodes? You will like the rest.
Did you find that the first two episodes strayed too far from the books? We will have to accept that this is not Foundation, the book. This is Foundation, the TV series.
(All the pics here are from the first 2 episodes, but some wonderful -2839- shots await you in the future.)
I'm really glad I didn't reread Foundation before the series. Now, after the season, is the right time.
Because the interviews didn't lie: it's a remix drawing on the whole of Foundation (and more). If the book was a puzzle, it was broken apart to create a new shape.