Featured in a Roundup of Star Wars Blogs

Cool, cool. Stinson's All Things Star Wars was featured in a roundup of Top Star Wars blogs on Moseisleyspaceport.org . Nice to be on the map! They've said some very nice things about me, and I really appreciate it.

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Docking Bay 94 (WIP) part 2

Falcon Hatch

this ILM concept image for TFA got me thinking. I cut up the model of the TFA Falcon I've built, just to see how the interior and exterior might interact with a door like that. Hmm, kind of interesting...

Docking Bay 94 (WIP)

what a piece of junk!

This was all built in sketchup from blueprints and photogrammetry of the original sets and props.

Docking Bay 94 has become one of my holy-grails of accuracy. I'm getting there...with a few liberties. The far wall of the docking bay was flat in the filming set, both due to the limited space of the soundstage, and for budget. However that wall was subtly painted as a scenery flat to give the suggestion of a fully round bay. The set piece of the Falcon itself was also only about 3/4 complete, truncated pretty much right against that flat back wall. In order to have a fully complete Falcon, as was later created for Empire, I've had to fill in the far wall as though it were complete. Usually I like to recreate the movie sets, rather than the universe, but sometimes I sacrificed my slavish reproduction of the sets and props, and dip a toe into the realm of fantasy...

ANH Falcon Cockpit (part 2)

getting those lights to glow in the corridor was trickier than I thought it would be. It seems the crew may have shone some dim spot lights on them from the floor to get the glowing effect. Maybe... seems cumbersome but it's the only way I could achieve similar results with a physically based based render engine.

ANH Falcon Cockpit (WIP)

few more panels, and rendered a bit brighter...

B-wing

here's a theoretical full-scale B-Wing based on unproduced blueprints from Return of the Jedi.

It would be about 53' from cockpit to wing-tip, and a little over 8' from deck to the top of the engine block.

Here's the blueprints of the b-wing cockpit. Seems to be labeled Awing for some reason, but that's clearly incorrect. The rest of the body I designed from a photogrametric study of the studio filming model of the B-wing.