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Douglas Trumbull and the exquisite Tyrell Building model for Blade Runner (1982).
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Currently in London. Went to The Barbican Estate this morning to find some Andor (2022) locations with the kids.
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Christopher Evan's matte painting of the Death Star trench. It took a month of ten hour days at the
@ILMVFX
matte department to paint it for Return of the Jedi (1983). A thread…
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Tyler Durden by costume designer Michael Kaplan for Fight Club (1999).
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Ralph McQuarrie’s covers for Del Rey Books are not discussed enough. Here are just a few.
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A moment in Andor (2022) that pays homage to the great Syd Mead.
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Pre-production paintings by Richard Vander Wende for Willow (1988).
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It can’t be unseen once you know the A-Wing for Return of the Jedi (1983) was kit-bashed from an F-14 Tomcat model.
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Some of John Bell’s concept design for the modified vehicles of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).
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Robert McCall isn’t usually associated with Star Wars, but it’s possible his 1971 work ‘Arizona Metropolis’ was a reference for Ralph McQuarrie in 1975 when he was working on this concept for the Imperial City of Alderaan.
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Syd Mead’s great concept design drawings for the interior of the spacecraft Leonov of 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).
#SydMead
#ConceptArt
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Before the Imperial Walkers were conceived, Joe Johnston was considering how military tanks might be dressed as Imperial vehicles for The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Syd Mead’s final elevation of the USS Sulaco for Aliens (1986) after a number of previous concepts were rejected by James Cameron for practical filming concerns. 1/3
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ED-209 concept design by Nilo Rodis-Jamero for RoboCop (1987).
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Luv’s Spinner from Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Designed by George Hull and built by Paul Inglis and Logan Sexton.
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Such fine detail on the Tyrell Building’s rooftop Spinner bays for Blade Runner (1982). Beautiful miniature work by Douglas Trumbull's Entertainment Effects Group.
#VFX
#BladeRunner
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Michael Pangrazio's matte painting establishing The Raven bar set among the mountains of Nepal for Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981).
#IndianaJones
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The Mos Espa Grand Arena miniature set by the
@ILMVFX
workshop for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). One of the biggest model sets built for a Star Wars film. Model maker Mike Lynch poses like a giant over the miniature spectators.
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#TheMandalorian
goes for the deep cuts into the Lucasfilm Archive. The tip of Coruscant’s highest peak is straight out of this 1993 Ralph McQuarrie artwork for The Illustrated Star Wars Universe (1995) by Kevin J. Anderson.
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Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams and Darth Vader in Sydney, Australia promoting The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
@MarkHamill
#StarWars
#Sydney
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Matte painting by Chris Evans for Independence Day (1996).
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Robert McCall’s final concept artwork for his 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) poster.
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Poster art for the September 1977 American Marketing Association meeting in San Diego by Robert Watts.
#StarWars
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Visual Effects Art Director Bill George adds battle damage to the USS Enterprise filming miniature at
@ILMVFX
on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
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Jean-Pierre Trevor’s Gotham City matte painting for Batman (1989).
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Ron Cobb’s design drawing of Flatbed for The Abyss (1989). James Cameron described it as an “underwater pickup truck” that would have been beaten up by the rough-neck deep sea oil rig workers.
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That's it. The Rebels are there.
Elstree Studios, Stage 6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1988) was released 35 years ago today.
Background art by Satoshi Kuroda and Hiroshi Ono. Images via
@reallyriekeles
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New Age Film-Maker George Lucas on the cover of
@sfexaminer
’s Sunday Magazine California Living. February 1st, 1970.
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Cockpit background art by Mitsuki Nakamura for Crusher Joe (1983).
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Ralph McQuarrie’s brilliant concept illustration of the Enterprise docking at an asteroid base for the unproduced film Star Trek: Planet of the Titans.
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Early character concept sketches by Mœbius for TRON (1982).
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There was often a Frank Frazetta artwork on the wall. In this case it was ‘Neanderthals' (1966).
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John Knoll, Lincoln Hu and Scott Anderson working on James Cameron’s The Abyss (1989). The
@ILMVFX
team had a total of 900mb of storage for the entire computer graphics department.
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Steve Gawley working on the Death Star Thermal Exhaust Port miniature for Star Wars (1977).
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Fremen private quarters are called yalis. From The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two (Titan Books, 2024).
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There’s a whole sequence of Andor shots easily found when walking around the center only made more fascinating by the way
@ILMVFX
has extended them.
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Roy Rodgers sculpting the prototype Medical Droid 2-1B for The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Rick Sternbach and some of the symbols designed with Lee Cole for the visual vocabulary of Starfleet for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
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R2-D2, Pinewood Studios, London, 2002 by Annie Leibovitz.
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The Imperial-class Star Destroyers in Rogue One are greeblie heaven.
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#RogueOne
#VisualEffects
@ILMVFX
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The Barbican is being used again as a location for the second season of Andor. It’s an astounding work of architecture in its own right and a perfect place to imagine as part of Coruscant.
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Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and built between 1965 and 1976, much of the detailing feels so familiar in a Star Wars sort of way…
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Death Star display graphics by Larry Cuba for Star Wars (1977).
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Assistant Art Director John Fenner’s design drawings for the Ark of the Covenant of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
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Concept art by Tony Smith for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
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Model maker Greg Moran working on the Batwing miniature for Batman (1989).
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Early A-Wing development sketches by the one and only Ralph McQuarrie for Return of the Jedi (1983).
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Some images of the wonderfully detailed Narcissus escape shuttle miniature built at Bray Studios for Alien (1979).
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Joe Johnston’s concept painting for the Flying Wing sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
#IndianaJones
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Three million light years from home. Ralph McQuarrie’s pre-production painting of the Spaceship for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
#RalphMcQuarrie
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Spacesuit and thruster pack design by Jack Johnson for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
#StarTrek
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The AT-AT Team. From left, Joe Johnston, Phil Tippett, Tom St. Amand, Nilo Rodis-Jamero, Jon Berg, and Doug Beswick. The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Ralph McQuarrie’s illustration of the Speeder bike pursuit of Return of the Jedi (1983). Working from photography of the scene, this was his favorite created for his Return of the Jedi Portfolio (Ballantine Books, 1983).
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Cloud Car concept by Joe Johnston for The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Randal M. Dutra, Senior Animator at
@Tippett_Studio
animating stop-motion puppets for a library of visual references to establish a “Dinosaur Movement Bible” for Jurassic Park (1993). Dutra spent three months animating the puppets made by Stan Winston’s workshop.
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Sylvain Despretz’s (
@The_Metaprogram
) design for “a docking station for spaceships in an early draft of The Fifth Element (1997). It was the underbelly of a small hollow planet for a concept called "The Centuries". That concept was entirely discarded, never to be seen again.”
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If you’re very quiet, patient and earn their trust, baby Sandcrawlers will let you get up close to them.
@ILMVFX
#StarWars
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Scratch built prototype for Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer, The Executor. Built by Lorne Peterson as a proof-of-concept for George Lucas’ approval during pre-production on The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Bill George had etched brass stencils left over from Blade Runner (1982) and Evans used them to create the repetitive surface patterns on the Death Star surface.
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Ron Cobb’s concept design for Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Early drafts saw Toht with a mechanical arm that hid a machine gun/flame thrower. Cobb referenced Christopher Lee here, who had played a German officer in Spielberg’s 1941.
#IndianaJones
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Star Wars Easter eggs: The DRIVE SAFELY decal on the rear of the original 5 foot Millennium Falcon model. The
@ILMVFX
crew clearly had fun with other decals as well. The original Falcon model is such a beautifully detailed object.
#VFX
#VFXarchaeology
#StarWars
#LightAndMagic
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Echo Base production painting by Ralph McQuarrie for The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Ken Adam’s masterful design for the War Room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) is one of the icons of cinema. Spielberg called it the best set that’s ever been designed. It’s become the platonic form of secret meeting rooms ever since.
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Not complete without an Easter egg, Evans placed a tribute to San Francisco with the inclusion of the Transamerica Pyramid and other buildings.
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The Trimaxion Drone Ship miniature for Flight of the Navigator (1986) with stair components for replacement animation. Designed by Edward Eyth, William Creber, Daniel Gluck and built by Jim Casey. Photos via Propstore.
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The matte painting was done on a four-by eight sheet of Masonite, using acrylic paint and markers. Evans used an architect's ruling pen inherited from his great-grandfather to paint long, thin lines.
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The T-Rex attack. Concept art by John Bell for Jurassic Park (1993).
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“Split up and head back to the surface. And see if you can get a few of those TIE Fighters to follow you!”
Happy 40th anniversary, Return of the Jedi (1983)!
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Late 1981 plans and elevations by Gavin Bocquet for the full size Speeder Bikes of Return of the Jedi (1983). Interesting note for “Provision for top hanging to overhead flying tracks”
#StarWars
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Some fictional Police Vehicles. A thread…
Police Charger concept design by Deak Ferrand for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
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VR phone glasses. Concept design drawing by Doug Chiang for Back to the Future Part II (1989).
#BTTF2
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Matte painting by the legendary Matthew Yuricich for Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959).
#MattePainting
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Early concept art for Willow (1988) by the one and only Mœbius.
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Mount Seleya matte painting study by Chris Evans for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
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Doug Chiang’s Pantone color study over his revised design drawing 0963 of the Neimoidian’s shuttle for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).
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Zam Wesell’s Airspeeder of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002). Some of the conceptual design by Doug Chiang and Jay Shuster (
@_Jay_Shuster_
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