Conceptional Artwork

[Lord_La_forge]

I know, I had posted it as news earlier, but I thought we HAVE TO open a topic for this. I was searching for pics for our reloaded project, as I found McQuarrie's page. He was responsible for painting conceptional art for the trilogy. So, he was the first one, who visualized GL's world..

 

Some INCREDIBLE pictures from his work:

 

This is one of my favourite. Yoda's first version. He looks a bit silly :

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QAD1AgoTYmearrZsEN!A*bIqBTtOfKweQn6B6cNBQHxy6S!3aa2UVp!Pyqb593e*fTUlwZqixbnJdIuo1HxC2P6AIBMU5V5Yzoz1AgBwWCk/yoda.jpg?dc=4675463121121850807

 

 

But THE MOST INTERESTING picture on his site is this one. Stormies wearing shields. There's one stormie with a lightsaber in the front

Stromtrooper (?) with lightsaber

[ADarkJedi44]

Wow thats some pretty good art work!

[Trejiuvanat]

The concepts for the capital of the Empire were nice too, the depictions of the Palace. Some spaceships too!

Stormies with lightsabers, pretty cool! The things that didn't made it into the movies... Just like Lando being a clone and such.

[Jahled]

Cool link & subject La_Forge dude! There is similar stuff in the Star Wars Archive, a book concerned chiefly with the models and what not used in the movies. The Executor for example originally had a very limited presance in TESB but apparently when the producers saw the ten foot or so long model kind of salivated and wrote it into the movie that bit longer...

[Lord_La_forge]

Yes it is! Isn't it? I didn't know about the Executor thing. Besides, I didn't know anything about SW's conceptional things, GL's original ideas.

Maan, I just love these paintings

 

Another cute thing I found here:

 

Chewbacca v0.1 . Kind of a giant hamster, I would say

Drawing of a wookie

 

And Boba Fett's early versions. Could be from Power Rangers too

Boba Fett's helmet

[Jahled]

OK, just in case you wonder;

 

'The Star Wars Archives' props, costumes,models, and Artwork from Star Wars by Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata, published by Virgin Books here in the UK... with many of the pictures by McQuirrie...

[Lord_La_forge]

hmmm. I wonder, if it's been ever released here too...

You made me curious again, dude.

[Trejiuvanat]

And Boba Fett's early versions. Could be from Power Rangers too

 

Mighty morphin' power Bobas.

[Cain]

OK, just in case you wonder;

 

'The Star Wars Archives' props, costumes,models, and Artwork from Star Wars by Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata, published by Virgin Books here in the UK... with many of the pictures by McQuirrie...

 

 

 

Give us the link pls here

[the_mask]

How about amazon, Cain ?

 

My behind the magic CDs show most (if not all) of the concept images as well. The early shuttle concepts made it into Rebellion's R&D screen and the backgrounds for Coruscant made some troop and event backgrounds (stormies, dark troopers and informants). Jabba's palace was there as well.

There's also a book called "The art of StarWars" with those pictures, but it was pretty expensive, IIRC.

 

I'm just glad, that Yoda didn't stay the blue dwarf, he was earlier. A fresh Kermit-green looks much better on his face and relates better to Frank Oz

[Cain]

How about amazon, Cain ?

 

You know that tehnicaly I'm still a newbie so be more specific also we don't have any SW books here

[Lord_La_forge]

No such works released in our little country.

 

Are there usable CD-Roms with sw art released? You could give some titles, so I can downl... err... buy them on net.

[Trejiuvanat]

Amazon ships worldwide, guys. I know that because I buys books/DVDs that I ususally won't find here through amazon.

Of course there's always the problem of the credit card.

The Behind the Scenes Cd does have some conpects, but the Art of Star Wars would be the one to go after.

[the_mask]

Since you speak German, LaForge and since I didn't find the first one on Amazon.com...

 

Behind the magic: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TP5Z/qid=1078927347/sr=2-3/ref=sr_aps_prod_3_3/028-1075321-7772562

 

and the "art of" books: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books-de-intl-us&field-keywords=art%20of%20star-wars&bq=1/ref=sr_aps_all/028-1075321-7772562

[Texas_Fett]

And Boba Fett's early versions. Could be from Power Rangers too

 

Mighty morphin' power Bobas.

Yeah, laugh it up, y'all. Us Mandalorians will have our revenge.

 

BTW, you have no idea how long it took to convince GL and Mr. McQuarrie to abandon that concept...of course, they didn't go for the Stetson hat and southern drawl, either. You see, the line should have been: "Now hold up thar, Vader...'e ain't worth squat to me if he ain't kickin'".

[Lord_La_forge]

Whatever you say, my mandalorian friend from Texas

 

Thanks Mask! But I can need that few euros for other things. I think I rather search somebody who has it, and borrow it for a while. I wont give out money for that (yet).

[Jahled]

Sadly, it gives me great displeasure to announce I am unable to url link a book on my bookcase to the site, though can only hope such feats of wonder can be achieved with the next 'Windows.'

 

Who knows; and who can say my PC won't be able to wake Trej up in Costa Rica with a cup of tea? Time marches on. Most of us nod as if we're aware of what the hell is going on....

[Trejiuvanat]

Who knows; and who can say my PC won't be able to wake Trej up in Costa Rica with a cup of tea? Time marches on. Most of us nod as if we're aware of what the hell is going on....

 

Trej slowly wakes up to the new sound event of Windows R2. With squinted eyes he stares at the blank screen.

"Jahled? Earl Grey, please."

All of a sudden the CD Drive open and impossibly a cup of tea appears on it. Iulan whistles and takes a sip of the tea. Not Earl Grey, Jahleds post-modern Windows still resents problem with the svchost....

[the_mask]

the tray on the drive closes again, just to open once more as a new cup materializes on it. In it is a strange fluid. Trej shrugs and mutters, that he didn't order green leaf tea either, but takes a sip nevertheless...

 

 

and can't hold himself to drink out the last drop of it, as he expectantly looks at the tray for more of the same.

 

...on the other side of the planet a furry paw just finished typing 'slurm' on Jahled's pc and an evil snicker can be heard in the background. Beware the Z....

[Cain]

Since you speak German, LaForge and since I didn't find the first one on Amazon.com...

 

Behind the magic: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TP5Z/qid=1078927347/sr=2-3/ref=sr_aps_prod_3_3/028-1075321-7772562

 

and the "art of" books: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books-de-intl-us&field-keywords=art%20of%20star-wars&bq=1/ref=sr_aps_all/028-1075321-7772562

 

 

 

Hey I don't speak german !?! nothing for me ? btw Mask did you recive all the rebel ships from Protectorate II ? How are they ?...I sended an email !?

[the_mask]

LaForge was after these books and I found the link on the German Amazon site, but since he knows that language it didn't matter. That's all about it

 

The ones before Hoth ? I looked at them yesterday, they are pretty good.

[Texas_Fett]

the tray on the drive closes again, just to open once more as a new cup materializes on it. In it is a strange fluid. Trej shrugs and mutters, that he didn't order green leaf tea either, but takes a sip nevertheless...

 

 

and can't hold himself to drink out the last drop of it, as he expectantly looks at the tray for more of the same.

 

...on the other side of the planet a furry paw just finished typing 'slurm' on Jahled's pc and an evil snicker can be heard in the background. Beware the Z....

 

Lo, I have ecountered...THE ZOOT AND HIS STORMTROOPERS!!

http://www.rathergood.com/laibach/ Be afraid...very afraid.

[the_mask]

Oh my god, now he's trying to imitate "Ramstein" ?

 

That feline's getting badder by the minute.

[Texas_Fett]

We may have inadvertantly stumbled upon a clue as to ZOOT's location and support structure, though. You'll notice that the video is based in the UK...

[Jahled]

 

That's very Woo.. Tex! Very Woo Yay!!!

 

We must be on our guard for goose stepping felines...