Star Wars Ep 09 - Speeder Chase - from sketch to final art
A little window into the design process of one of the speeder vehicles from episode 9. This was to be part of a presentation at this year's IAMAG. Unfortunately the event had to be cancelled. I was given approval to show these images from the latest Star Wars move - The Rise of Skywalker. I will now show them here. I'll start with the design development of the Rey's speeder. More to follow!
These designs are part of collaborative process and many creative people are involved, including other concept artists, modeller builders and of course the production designer.
So, what follows are a selection of images I had intended to present at this year's IAMAG. Approval was granted for me to so.Unfortunately the event was cancelled. So, I'll go thru some of those images here. I'll start by showing the final image.
This was the BW rough sketch done for the previous image.
But here's the start of the design process. Lots of thumbnails - Kev Jenkins, the production designer liked to work this way - quickly communicate basic ideas.
Then work up so of the thumbs into more details drawings. The influence of Joe Johnson's drawings is clear!
We played around with ideas of sails...
We did many many drawings. This is a small selection.
Started to hone in on something we liked.
Created a basic model.
Follows is a selection of options now worked up in colour. The images was painted over a basic model.
Played around with opening the body of the speeder.
Different colour schemes...
Shapes...
many options!
and so on..
and more..
ok that's enough!
Another sketch for the keyframe.
Finally, this is the first version of the keyframe. I changed the emphasis putting Rey's speeder in front in the final image.