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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Early Star Wars Storyboards

Posted by Charley Parker at 11:00 pm

Early Star Wars Storyboards
Nearly all movies these days, an certainly all movies that involve animation or special effects, are plotted out visually beforehand using storyboards; a comic strip like series of drawings, often done simply in markers, showing the basic on screen composition and sequences of action.

There is a nice Flickr set of early storyboards from the original Star Wars movie, early enough that the design of the “pirate ship” in some sequences is very different from the eventual design of the Millenium Falcon.

The art credit for most of these is apparently Joe Johnston.

[Via Kottke]

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  1. Comment by Dawid Michalczyk
    Sunday, November 9, 2008 @ 6:52 am

    Thanks for the link. These concepts are fun to see, especially if one is familiar with the more polished ones found in the Star Wars art books.

  2. Comment by Nazia
    Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 12:28 am

    This fun is very well. The artist drawing is very beautiful.

  3. Comment by Parka
    Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 11:54 pm

    The Flickr page has been made private already.

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