Arquinsiel posted:

That book is a seriously cool read if you can find it. Just all kinds of batshit illustrations like that and some trying to justify the weirdass animals they invented for the universe.

Robot Style posted:

That book was illustrated and co-written by Terryl Whitlatch, who designed pretty much all the new aliens and creatures in Episode I. It's cool that they got a lot of the artists working on the movies from that period to do other Star Wars stuff that actually showed off their art more - apparently when Doug Chiang was working on the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, he was treating it as a warmup for Episode I, only to find out that Lucas wanted to go in a radically different direction with the movie's aesthetics.

Robot Style posted:

That book was illustrated and co-written by Terryl Whitlatch, who designed pretty much all the new aliens and creatures in Episode I. It's cool that they got a lot of the artists working on the movies from that period to do other Star Wars stuff that actually showed off their art more - apparently when Doug Chiang was working on the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, he was treating it as a warmup for Episode I, only to find out that Lucas wanted to go in a radically different direction with the movie's aesthetics.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

“Stormtrooper Helmet

There are a number of different models of Imperial stormtrooper standard issue helmets, incorporating various specialized components and changing over time with new developments. In this model, enhanced optical equipment creates holographic images of the surrounding terrain, shielding the eye from excessive brightness and offering vision through many barriers such as smoke, darkness, and fire. Optical equipment in trooper helmets can range from simple eye lenses to these elaborate vision processors.”

Vinylshadow posted:

Poor guy designed, what, a hundred different pods before George came in and said "you know the engines aren't actually attached, right?" and he had to do it all over

SlothfulCobra posted:

I like how there's apparently a baby sarlacc budding off of the main body.

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I like how there's explanations for Clone Trooper armor where the initial designs had a lot of horrible ergonomic issues because Kaminoans didn't really know much about human physiology and were just vaguely extrapolating a heavier (but with cheaper materials) model of Jango Fett's armor. And then Commander Rex winds up being a power user and does a chop-shop job on his helmet, keeping the phase 1 visor and welding that into a phase 2 helmet with the added breathing apparatus. (and of course the lil Arc Trooper antenna scope)

Arquinsiel posted:

I think that book actually explains them as being like anglerfish, so that's a male just disintigrating into a set of balls stuck to the side of a female sarlacc.

Also TY for pointing that out about Rex's helmet to me. I totally never noticed it before

Vinylshadow posted:

Ah, May, which heralds the return of Mark's Month of Star Wars

https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1520832298920280064

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I love how Alec Guinness hated working on Star Wars. It defined Obi-Wan in a way that an excited actor probably couldn't.

That said, I would pay 20 bucks to hang out with Mark Hamill.

e: lmfao $20 in 1977 money is almost $96 today.

Moon Slayer posted:

I heard an interview with Carrie Fisher once where she was asked to tell them something she'd never been asked about filming Star Wars before and she replied that Alec Guinnes once payed Mark Hamill $20 to "go away."

St_Ides posted:

If I weren’t so lazy I’d photoshop Hamill and Guinness on to this.

ikanreed posted:

"Who need they midichlussy ate"

banned from Starbucks posted:

It's funny that two guys that can call each other up on the phone feel the need to take out full page adds jerking each other off about how nooe else can make movies as big as them. Being rich rules

SlothfulCobra posted: