Sometimes you just gotta follow your heart

 I saw this record cover ages ago and added it to a screensaver slideshow, so every once in a while it pops on screen and I think "those guys are so funky lookin, I gotta model them one day". Well that day is to-day. Still needs work, but I'm pretty happy with R2-Apollo-11 and DisCo-3PO

The Star Wars (1955)

Recently I've been poking at a fun mash-up side project.

So it's well documented that George Lucas had originally wanted to recreate Flash Gordon, but couldn't obtain the rights and so made Star Wars instead. My project imagines that Star Wars was actually a vintage show, which would have aired sometime in the 50s alongside Flash Gordon, and that it was this show that Lucas obtained the rights to and rebooted in 1977.

Here are a few of the props I've designed so far...

The Falcon



Star Destroyer

A Stormtrooper Bucket

and finally, R2-D2

New parts

Taking the Falcon for a Spin

The Droids of A New Hope

A work in progress that I'll be updating periodically.

All droids are in order of appearance (left to right, if multiple droids have their first appearance in the same shot).

all of these were made in sketchup.

more to come...

Linear Falcon Interior

This drawing was done by Production Designer John Barry, as a proposed interior to the Millennium Falcon (then known as the "Pirate Ship")

Here's my take on that. 

Farewell to a nice weekend