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.
@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.
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.
I like that a lot of the art that didn’t make it into the OT were still used eventually even if it was over 40-50 years later. Like that bug-looking cylindrical pods on grassy plains being used for Lothal in Rebels or that the original designs for Courasant influencing the design of some worlds from 2007 SW:CW like the capital city on Mandalore. It just seems like Sci-Fi art from the 70’s/80’s were just so otherworldly and I think that’s something we’ve lost currently in the genre.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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...
THIS is what some of the re-boots should be like...as a matter of fact...I would go for and be up for an animated film and or film series of this before live action ones were done.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
The fact that the look of the animated series Star Wars Rebels being inspired by this art just makes it satisfying
Ralph McQuarrie invented Star Wars. He was the real genius in the background.
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.
Along with Lucas.
@Helzhang Studios yes really
@Helzhangstudiosofficialwhy
@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.
2:45 I can’t believe that art come to life on The Mandalorian season 2
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.
I like that a lot of the art that didn’t make it into the OT were still used eventually even if it was over 40-50 years later. Like that bug-looking cylindrical pods on grassy plains being used for Lothal in Rebels or that the original designs for Courasant influencing the design of some worlds from 2007 SW:CW like the capital city on Mandalore.
It just seems like Sci-Fi art from the 70’s/80’s were just so otherworldly and I think that’s something we’ve lost currently in the genre.
Why is concept art always ten times more terrifying than the final product
I've been asking myself this question for a long, long time... They are almost always cooler
Because concept art is raw and unrefined
@@Plato-y8t And you don't have budget or tech restraints for concept art.
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
they’re so ethereal, like ive been here in a dream. that’s the thing that i thinks missing from star wars now.
4:03 Those mounds look like on Lothal in "Rebels", including the hidden Jedi Temple there.
definitely
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.
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Every now and then God returns as a human for just a little while to show off a little.
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
this is literally an entire galaxy this man visualized and perfectly rendered
I love how thin and vibrant the lightsabers are, seems much more elegant than those thick clubs from the Prequels and the Sequels.
And they hate on rebels lightsaber ironic
@@fivemagics18
I dont hate on those things, its one of the few things i appreciate about this show.
Mulm
They look better still than in motion
luke's saber got really thick in rotj. dont read too much into that
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.
Never saw such amazing drawings
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.
The man was a master at his craft.
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
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
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
I slowed this down to half speed, now I can truly enjoy the depth of his amazing art work
How fantastic! Ralph Mcqurrie is a genius!!
They should have used "The Emperor's Throne Room Planet" in the Movies would have been cool.
I guess that is where the idea of Mustafar came from
I’m from the future. They’re using the Ralph’s stone emperor’s throne in the rise of skywalker!
@@theartjedi That's what I was thinking
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
U right
Why don't most people give him credit. He almost singlehandedly created the star wars universe. Genius pure Genius.
It's nice a lot of this art was used in Clone Wars and Rebels
Really impressive artworks by ralph McQuarrie, I would have loved getting an artwork with his signature.
God, what he would have conceived for the sequels is 100% spine tingling.
Just absolutely completely entirely fantastic
This video made my day…
No A.I
Great music.
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.
The Vader's TIE at 1:03 looks very brothers Hildebrandt.
George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie and John Williams, the fathers of Star Wars.
5:05 - planet from lightspeed skipping sequence in The Rise of Skywalker.
Awesome... thank you so much 👍🏼
I have the RMQ two part book with all his artwork and I heavily recommend it to anyone interested in his work and Star Wars as a whole
ISBN?
Thanks so much, I love Ralph Mcquarrie art
What beautiful art, so inspired
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.
Nope those are from Ralph's designs for the original Battlestar Galactica.
That sand crawler painting looked amazing !!! It's all truly awesome ! I love concept art!!!
0:57 I think this inspired Luke's battle against Lord Vader in the Empire Strikes back
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...
THIS is what some of the re-boots should be like...as a matter of fact...I would go for and be up for an animated film and or film series of this before live action ones were done.
He and Lucas worked together to make something beautiful
Boa edição. A arte de Ralph McQuarrie é realmente lindíssima.
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.
So amazing... I just love looking at these and dream... :)
1:30 It looks like the capital city of lothal!
His concept art has a well-grounded reality which many others could never replicate. I'm looking at you Doug Chiang.
This video scares me I don't know if it's the music or the drawings but still this is amazing.
Love the video- looks like you've got some Battlestar Galactica in the there as well.
I heard they used Star wars concept arts for Battlestar Galactica
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.
2:22 They took the whole concept from the snowtrooper and made it a flame trooper
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
2:34 That's the slug that ate R2 and spit him out?
44 years later, and there are still things to discover
Doesn't it also look like that underwater creature on Rodia in "the Clone Wars" episode 'Bombad Jedi'?
1:46 Snoke?
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.
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.
4:29 would have been nice to see the Jedi temple/Imperial Palace again in the original trilogy
4:13 imperial construction module concept on the left
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?
I mean, Luke apparently grew up thinking that Anakin was "a navigator on a spice freighter."
wonderful !
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!
Huge painter
2:05 I thought this one was for Attack of the Clones (could bebwrong though)
4:34 Count Baltar brought to Imperious Leader by Cylon Centrurians
Oh, so that's where Star Wars came from
This feels uncanny. Specially episode 1
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
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
They should make these animation come alive sure they can do it with today's technology
Have you heard of Star Wars Rebels it takes inspiration from alot of a New Hope's concept art
Someone has actually animated a trailer based on this concept art.
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.
Lucas provided the genetics and Ralph made the skin
4:59 That's not concept art! That's a screenshot of Star Wars Holiday Special-1978 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👿
They used that art as the background
@@the-voyager Ohh Okay!
Ach, not enough time on each one!
Indeed. Use the pause!
i love how chopper was supposed to be r2 lol
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...
4:55…
WFT???????????
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.
The original Coruscant was pretty utopian-ish when you ignore the gothic Imperial Palace.
2:44 krykna concept
anyone else here because of the Luke and Vader concept art mods?
Guys... you know ralph is from the Simpsons so you can, t praise him or he, ll go bonkers
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.
Awesome, when Star Wars was Star Wars. No woke agenda just pure content and story line. Sad what it has turned into…
shut up
So exactly what did George Lucas do?
He had the wohle idea and has written the story.
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.