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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

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Concept art for the original trilogy

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Quote by Gail Simone

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Cut to the left, I’ll take the leader. 

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          The   S T A R   W A R S   Concept Art   of   I A N   M c C A I G                                            t h e    c h a r a c t e r s

young Obi Wan Kenobi  (”Revenge of the Sith”)

Qui Gon  Jinn   (”The Phantom Menace”)

Anakin  Skywalker  (”Revenge of the Sith”)

Padme  Amadala  Naberrie  (”The Phantom Menace,”  “Revenge of the Sith”)

Jedi  Grand  Master  Yoda

10 year old  Han  Solo  and  (above him)  with childhood friends, Lando and Chewbacca the Wookiee   (”Revenge of the Sith” – concept, design, and early script draft appearance only)

Padme in sexy night gown  (”Attack of the Clones”)

Governor Moff Tarkin   (”Revenge of the Sith”)

Jar Jar  Binks   (”The Phantom Menace”)

Jedi Council Master  Ki Adi  Mundi   (Episodes I – I I I)

Sith Lord  Darth  Maul   (”The Phantom Menace”)

Rebel Leader and Princess of Alderaan,  Leia Organa enslaved by Jabba the Hut  (”Return of the Jedi”)

unnamed “Sith Witch”  (designed for “Menace” but replaced at design stage by male hunter-killer Maul;  image elements reused in “The Cones Wars”animated)

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Gwendoline Christie by John Akehurst for Vanity Fair ( x )

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#notallsith

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Lmao

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This party’s over.