Star Wars Concept Art: 140 paintings by Ralph McQuarrie

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  • @klaushanftop9228
    @klaushanftop9228 4 роки тому +169

    Ralph McQuarrie invented Star Wars. He was the real genius in the background.

    • @prolamer7
      @prolamer7 4 роки тому +27

      And then there was soundtrack and all those invisible people which made effects and requisites etc... without all of them it didnt worked out another time.

    • @cccormac4963
      @cccormac4963 Рік тому +8

      Along with Lucas.

    • @justcarterr
      @justcarterr Рік тому +2

      @Helzhang Studios yes really

    • @DarthOlum
      @DarthOlum Рік тому +1

      @Helzhangstudiosofficialwhy

    • @DarthOlum
      @DarthOlum Рік тому +2

      @Helzhangstudiosofficial but all the scripts were written by him, of course, some persons helped him, but the original idea was from him. I would say that everyone helped to make the movie.

  • @googley2668
    @googley2668 7 днів тому +5

    All my respect to McQuarrie for giving Star Wars the visuality it has, of course, some of this was altered, but we wouldnt have this without him, i always loved how star wars didnt just feel futurist, it felt other worldly.

  • @Laufield
    @Laufield 3 роки тому +36

    2:45 I can’t believe that art come to life on The Mandalorian season 2

  • @treeoflife7385
    @treeoflife7385 3 роки тому +45

    When I imagine Star Wars in my head, this is how I see it. Something so beautiful about how these are drawn, has that old but futuristic feel to it

    • @rhysspeight7142
      @rhysspeight7142 Місяць тому +1

      they’re so ethereal, like ive been here in a dream. that’s the thing that i thinks missing from star wars now.

  • @manko8852
    @manko8852 6 років тому +42

    Every now and then God returns as a human for just a little while to show off a little.

  • @pete6705
    @pete6705 14 днів тому +5

    McQuarrie on Star Wars-
    I just did my best to depict what I thought the film should look like, I really liked the idea. I didn't think the film would ever get made. My impression was it was too expensive. There wouldn't be enough of an audience. It's just too complicated. But George knew a lot of things that I didn't know.

  • @robinglockner506
    @robinglockner506 6 років тому +45

    Never saw such amazing drawings

  • @Dan.50
    @Dan.50 4 роки тому +31

    The man was a master at his craft.

  • @GoldenFenrir
    @GoldenFenrir 8 днів тому +4

    Why is concept art always ten times more terrifying than the final product

    • @erictrobin
      @erictrobin 8 днів тому +1

      I've been asking myself this question for a long, long time... They are almost always cooler

  • @Thomas_H._Smith
    @Thomas_H._Smith 3 роки тому +18

    0:14 Fun Fact: It was this painting that actually sold Anthony Daniels on Star Wars. He came in to audition for C-3P0, but when he read the script was like "What kind of a story is this" but then he walked into the screentest and saw this painting and thought it was looking at him like "You're the one, come to me." and then he felt like he had to get this part. Then years later he met MacQuarrie and said to him "You! This is all your fault!" and the rest is history.

    • @Thomas_H._Smith
      @Thomas_H._Smith 2 роки тому

      @I'm not ya mate I'm ya father! ua-cam.com/video/Qhg8azR2ww8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/8fCqhpV2SG4/v-deo.html
      You were saying? Who's lying now?

  • @max_mittler
    @max_mittler 2 роки тому +15

    in my opinion he's one of the greatest artists of all time. No joke, up there with michelangelo and dali. Just the amount of emotion and inventiveness is mindbreaking

    • @max_mittler
      @max_mittler 2 роки тому +4

      this is literally an entire galaxy this man visualized and perfectly rendered

  • @nathanilsaenz8178
    @nathanilsaenz8178 2 роки тому +16

    Ralph Mcquarrie's artwork is beyond amazing, I can go as much to say that it is very divine and absolutely beautiful. When I first found out about it years ago, I had to buy any toy I can find that had Ralph Mcquarrie concept art in front of it. I can look at his art over and over again and it never gets old! I remeber playing Jedi fallen order and saw that they made a flame trooper which was a nod to his concept art of the snow troopers. I get so excited any time I see new characters or troopers that draw inspiration from Ralphs concept art. I don't really watch rebels but thought it was very cool how they use the concept art of Chewbacca to make Zeb and also Jedi master Tapal from fallen order and using his stormtrooper concept for the TK troopers in the bad batch. I really look forward to seeing more of his concepts resurrected and used

  • @Khultan
    @Khultan 3 місяці тому +2

    God, what he would have conceived for the sequels is 100% spine tingling.

  • @admiralyisoonshin3360
    @admiralyisoonshin3360 6 років тому +11

    How fantastic! Ralph Mcqurrie is a genius!!

  • @ChupeTTe
    @ChupeTTe 4 роки тому +61

    I love how thin and vibrant the lightsabers are, seems much more elegant than those thick clubs from the Prequels and the Sequels.

    • @fivemagics18
      @fivemagics18 4 роки тому +17

      And they hate on rebels lightsaber ironic

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 4 роки тому +7

      @@fivemagics18
      I dont hate on those things, its one of the few things i appreciate about this show.
      Mulm

    • @mattmortar1325
      @mattmortar1325 4 роки тому +1

      They look better still than in motion

    • @JoefromNJ1
      @JoefromNJ1 3 роки тому +5

      luke's saber got really thick in rotj. dont read too much into that

    • @ross3986
      @ross3986 2 роки тому +3

      The light sabers in rebels looked awful and honestly, the show to me doesn’t really capture the beauty of Ralph's amazing art in my opinion, the animation just felt cheap and slow.

  • @gandhithegreat328
    @gandhithegreat328 4 роки тому +47

    1:13 You see that Disney? That's called a "Y-Wing." It's a fast-moving bomber not based off our real-world WWII bombers because slow-moving bombers in Starwars are suicidal

    • @gandhithegreat328
      @gandhithegreat328 4 роки тому +3

      Gregory Dahl Yea it’s slower than fighters but my point is Lucas recognized slow moving bombers in Star Wars, like what we saw in Last Jedi, would be suicide missions.
      You need a bomber that can get to the target, release the pay load, and get the heck out of there as quickly as possible and that’s where the Y-wing came in and what the Resistance should have used in the Last Jedi instead of those slow moving suicide capsules

  • @rambonambo3510
    @rambonambo3510 7 років тому +53

    They should have used "The Emperor's Throne Room Planet" in the Movies would have been cool.

    • @darinstaley1993
      @darinstaley1993 7 років тому +10

      I guess that is where the idea of Mustafar came from

    • @theartjedi
      @theartjedi 4 роки тому +10

      I’m from the future. They’re using the Ralph’s stone emperor’s throne in the rise of skywalker!

    • @darinstaley1993
      @darinstaley1993 3 роки тому +2

      @@theartjedi That's what I was thinking

    • @theartjedi
      @theartjedi 3 роки тому +1

      Darin Staley yeah, so glad they’re still being influenced by him! Really cool to see that rebel’s biggest inspiration was Ralph as well as that final scene in the clone wars

    • @alguien896
      @alguien896 17 днів тому

      U right

  • @thestarkknightreturns
    @thestarkknightreturns 3 роки тому +6

    A lot of unused concept art created by this genius was carried out into more recent Star War projects, such as Clone Wars, Rebels, Rogue One, the Sequel Trilogy and The Mandalorian.

  • @antr7493
    @antr7493 27 днів тому +1

    It's nice a lot of this art was used in Clone Wars and Rebels

  • @ghostman5620
    @ghostman5620 2 місяці тому +2

    The Vader's TIE at 1:03 looks very brothers Hildebrandt.

  • @marceloschumann4202
    @marceloschumann4202 7 років тому +9

    Just absolutely completely entirely fantastic

  • @rustygazes256
    @rustygazes256 2 роки тому +3

    Why don't most people give him credit. He almost singlehandedly created the star wars universe. Genius pure Genius.

  • @matt8399
    @matt8399 20 днів тому

    I want a whole remake trilogy based on or even a direct copy of the concept art and concept scripts.
    Shot on the same cameas they used for the OG trilogy but with modern day special effects.
    Ralph Mcquarrie's STAR WARS
    It would be BEAUTIFUL.

  • @tapinewoods3937
    @tapinewoods3937 Рік тому +2

    Really impressive artworks by ralph McQuarrie, I would have loved getting an artwork with his signature.

  • @nealeharris840
    @nealeharris840 Рік тому +1

    Awesome... thank you so much 👍🏼

  • @vikhdez9306
    @vikhdez9306 Рік тому +3

    George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie and John Williams, the fathers of Star Wars.

  • @brennan8930
    @brennan8930 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks so much, I love Ralph Mcquarrie art

  • @leonhunter1839
    @leonhunter1839 Рік тому +1

    This video made my day…
    No A.I
    Great music.

  • @thesmilingman7576
    @thesmilingman7576 Рік тому +1

    0:57 I think this inspired Luke's battle against Lord Vader in the Empire Strikes back

  • @Fmakegeo6
    @Fmakegeo6 6 років тому +19

    The way this aesthetically looks better than the films is as if it almost begs for a remake..... Completely different than the films and at a much higher artistic fidelity...

  • @Petrovelly
    @Petrovelly 3 роки тому +3

    5:05 - planet from lightspeed skipping sequence in The Rise of Skywalker.

  • @bigpun7916
    @bigpun7916 4 роки тому

    That sand crawler painting looked amazing !!! It's all truly awesome ! I love concept art!!!

  • @KGrooveBlanka
    @KGrooveBlanka 6 років тому +20

    1:46 Snoke?

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 3 роки тому +2

      More like guild navigator from Dune
      Star Wars heavily relies on Dune. The Spice is in Dune.
      Star Wars was more driven by aristrocratic affairs then the Jedi, the same is for the Dune Saga. The noble houses are the key in Dune.
      The Jedi in the original draft have more in common with the Beni Gesseret.

  • @rambonambo3510
    @rambonambo3510 7 років тому +11

    5:13 So are the Death Troopers design based on these 2 in this concept art, and maybe the breaded man behind them is maybe supposed to be Director Krennic.

    • @Anacronian
      @Anacronian 6 років тому +2

      Nope those are from Ralph's designs for the original Battlestar Galactica.

  • @elwarden1
    @elwarden1 10 місяців тому

    What beautiful art, so inspired

  • @cyrusjameskhan
    @cyrusjameskhan 7 років тому

    So amazing... I just love looking at these and dream... :)

  • @josehenriqueerthal8038
    @josehenriqueerthal8038 6 років тому

    Boa edição. A arte de Ralph McQuarrie é realmente lindíssima.

  • @ZeradoxGaming1812
    @ZeradoxGaming1812 15 днів тому +1

    1:30 It looks like the capital city of lothal!

  • @kasierketer426
    @kasierketer426 4 роки тому +1

    This video scares me I don't know if it's the music or the drawings but still this is amazing.

  • @ericmonaco4509
    @ericmonaco4509 2 роки тому +1

    I see that Filoni took inspirations from these to make Rebels ex:Zeb was the original Chewbacca and he designed Vader's mask similar to his original concept

  • @ThatKidBobo
    @ThatKidBobo 3 місяці тому

    You can very easily see Morrowind's influence from Star Wars in this artwork. Also, very interesting is that most city art was fully realized in the Prequel Trilogy instead of the Original Trilogy due to technology limitations.

  • @darkempire37
    @darkempire37 7 років тому

    wonderful !

  • @kevinsupreme_ph36yearsago59
    @kevinsupreme_ph36yearsago59 2 роки тому +1

    I think star wars as an animated movie instead of a live action one would work pretty well since animation is limitless & considering the filmmaking technology of 1977 couldn't achieve some of the elements of these matte paintings, where nowadays digital compositing softwares & cgi can achieve it almost perfectly.

  • @milo8425
    @milo8425 Місяць тому

    Oh, so that's where Star Wars came from

  • @wanderingowl6345
    @wanderingowl6345 7 років тому +1

    Love the video- looks like you've got some Battlestar Galactica in the there as well.

    • @robinglockner506
      @robinglockner506 6 років тому +1

      I heard they used Star wars concept arts for Battlestar Galactica

  • @legoclonetrooper
    @legoclonetrooper 3 роки тому +2

    2:22 They took the whole concept from the snowtrooper and made it a flame trooper

  • @sandal_thong8631
    @sandal_thong8631 2 роки тому

    Before VCRs I collected Topps Empire Strikes Back cards. I wondered why someone went to the trouble of making a painting of what appeared on the screen. I just wanted the cards with screen shots!

  • @thesmilingman7576
    @thesmilingman7576 Рік тому

    Lucas provided the genetics and Ralph made the skin

  • @melvinch
    @melvinch 2 роки тому +1

    His concept art has a well-grounded reality which many others could never replicate. I'm looking at you Doug Chiang.

  • @ChupeTTe
    @ChupeTTe 2 роки тому +3

    I knew George Lucas took much from Dune
    But at 1:46 there is a figure which looks like a guild navigator. Was it planned by Lucas to include them too?

    • @Quirderph
      @Quirderph 2 роки тому +1

      I mean, Luke apparently grew up thinking that Anakin was "a navigator on a spice freighter."

  • @prdoyle
    @prdoyle 5 років тому +6

    Ach, not enough time on each one!

    • @erictrobin
      @erictrobin 5 років тому +1

      Indeed. Use the pause!

  • @ruhfuhfuh3032
    @ruhfuhfuh3032 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for this upload, this is fantastic.
    So did this come entirely from Ralph or was it a joint thing between him and Lucas and whoever else and they sat down together? Was some of it Lucas saying "Hey can you draw this for me?". I'm not a huge Star Wars guy but I do love the old movies and this is very fascinating to me. Although my favorite Lucas film is still THX (If you can find the original. He didn't quite destroy the original with that one but he almost did)
    Also what do you guys think of that original Yoda concept? Is it good that they made the changes they did? I'm torn, I kind of would have liked to see the one in that picture haha

  • @taintliquor00
    @taintliquor00 Рік тому

    i love how chopper was supposed to be r2 lol

  • @victormanuel369
    @victormanuel369 6 років тому +2

    Huge painter

  • @stevenknight8156
    @stevenknight8156 2 роки тому

    If disney ever reboots star wars or creates an alternative version of it they should use all of the unused designs from the new hope concept art

  • @Endureth
    @Endureth 17 днів тому +1

    2:34 That's the slug that ate R2 and spit him out?

    • @erictrobin
      @erictrobin 17 днів тому

      44 years later, and there are still things to discover

  • @thesmilingman7576
    @thesmilingman7576 Рік тому

    4:29 would have been nice to see the Jedi temple/Imperial Palace again in the original trilogy

  • @tweeleaf
    @tweeleaf 2 роки тому

    i honestly like the way lightsabers gradually get weaker as they head farther from the hilt. like an actual plasma blade. i also wished they kept the darth vader design.

  • @thesmilingman7576
    @thesmilingman7576 Рік тому

    2:05 I thought this one was for Attack of the Clones (could bebwrong though)

  • @glukko8245
    @glukko8245 Рік тому

    This feels uncanny. Specially episode 1

  • @zibbybone
    @zibbybone 6 років тому

    4:34 Count Baltar brought to Imperious Leader by Cylon Centrurians

  • @russellkellett9535
    @russellkellett9535 Рік тому +1

    They should make these animation come alive sure they can do it with today's technology

    • @thesmilingman7576
      @thesmilingman7576 Рік тому

      Have you heard of Star Wars Rebels it takes inspiration from alot of a New Hope's concept art

    • @minicle426
      @minicle426 12 днів тому

      Someone has actually animated a trailer based on this concept art.

  • @sidpirate8570
    @sidpirate8570 5 років тому

    Thanks Ralph McQuarrie!
    I would like to mention a science fiction country idea I have for HEAVEN... THE TRIANGLE in North America...
    It follows Star Wars, Star Trek and other science fiction movies...
    Thanks again! For MY MUSIC and artwork please visit THIS SID PIRATE website...

  • @zico739
    @zico739 2 роки тому

    The original Coruscant was pretty utopian-ish when you ignore the gothic Imperial Palace.

  • @sargondp69
    @sargondp69 4 роки тому +2

    0.5 X Speed (only is 0.25 X is choppy; I managed 0.4 X ok). Open another window at normal speed for music. Great upload but McQuarrie images are too much to take in so quickly slowing down the images would be nice.

  • @willybold1963
    @willybold1963 4 роки тому +3

    4:59 That's not concept art! That's a screenshot of Star Wars Holiday Special-1978 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👿

    • @the-voyager
      @the-voyager 4 роки тому +2

      They used that art as the background

    • @willybold1963
      @willybold1963 4 роки тому +1

      @@the-voyager Ohh Okay!

  • @leonhunter1839
    @leonhunter1839 Рік тому +1

    4:55
    WFT???????????

  • @lucasb.6932
    @lucasb.6932 4 роки тому

    anyone else here because of the Luke and Vader concept art mods?

  • @Thomas-jq2iv
    @Thomas-jq2iv 3 роки тому

    Guys... you know ralph is from the Simpsons so you can, t praise him or he, ll go bonkers

  • @camilawechter3622
    @camilawechter3622 7 років тому +1

    So exactly what did George Lucas do?

    • @robinglockner506
      @robinglockner506 6 років тому +8

      He had the wohle idea and has written the story.

    • @pete6705
      @pete6705 14 днів тому

      This was a crazy ambitious project, especially for the 70s. Even McQuarrie thought it was too complicated to ever get green-lit. But Lucas found a way to bring it all to life perfectly.

  • @stephengarcia5915
    @stephengarcia5915 5 років тому +1

    Half the magic of Star Wars is McQuarrie's art if not more.
    Break away from this vision and it's no longer Star Wars.

  • @shannonmonroe5873
    @shannonmonroe5873 2 місяці тому

    Awesome, when Star Wars was Star Wars. No woke agenda just pure content and story line. Sad what it has turned into…