Star Wars ILM Concept Art

[zerotc 1,011]

Hey, I just stumbled across some really cool Star Wars concept art at https://ilmchallenge.artstation.com/ via Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/the-best-star-wars-art-on-the-planet-1786644742).

 

Apparently, thousands of artists submitted their work in a competition sponsored by Industrial Light and Magic (founded by George Lucas).

 

Some of them are great wallpaper material!

Edited September 15, 2016 by zerotc

[Transmogrifier 1,277]

these are really, thanks for the link!

[jme 264]

Wow, yeah.  Some amaaazing stuff there.

 

Thanks!

[Spaceman91 805]

Curse all of those massively talented people *shakes fist in random direction*. I wish I could draw half as good as that, thanks for the link.

[Conandoodle 1,817]

Some of these are incredible!!!

 

I particularly liked this one, made me giggle a bit and reminded me of the the time mum caught me having a Star Wars fighter battle with the two nuts from a walnut.

[zerotc 1,011]

I think my favourite series is this one:

 

[patox 2,011]

Seeing all this awesomeness from artists around the world is even more reason why New Era ships are so lame.

 

Seriously, all these great designs are out there, and JJ gives us split-wing X-Wings, a Chubby Star Destroyer, repainted TIEs and a Bat Wing.

[patox 2,011]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RedWolfwere 4]

Thanks for sharing those! Really magnificent!

[Kdubb 6,642]

Sometimes I wonder why any Star Wars product that requires art direction even has artists that are being paid. For every project ever, Disney should just say "Hey, want to design a new blah blah blah for star wars? Send it here!", and it will be 1000x better than what they end up with on their own. This stuff is incredible.

[General Zodd 456]

Seeing all this awesomeness from artists around the world is even more reason why New Era ships are so lame.

 

Seriously, all these great designs are out there, and JJ gives us split-wing X-Wings, a Chubby Star Destroyer, repainted TIEs and a Bat Wing.

You do realise that the split wing X-Wing is directly taken from Ralph McQuarrie's original concept sketches, right? Just like Chopper and Zeb from Rebels? That wasn't some new designer you can brush off, that was from the original master himself!

[costi 1,109]

Yup, Zeb is basically the first design of Chewbacca.

[patox 2,011]

Garazeb and shorty TIEs from Rebels, originally designed by McQuarrie, live in the era that they were intended be in. But split-wing X-wings were not introduced in that era.

 

They pop up 34 years later.

 

I found those pics from the ILM artist challenge to showcase how it would be more satisfying to see new ships in Ep 7, instead of the repaints we get. But wow, C3P0 has a red arm. Now that's totally cool

[IronOx 168]

Did you notice that 'Danji' appeared in several of the submissions. One of the artists had on on a Deviantart page that designing a new race was part of the challenge. In most of the runners up, there was a picture of Mon Motha or Leia meeting the new race. The first place winner is also a similar picture. Could it be that the "Star Wars stories" spin off series will focus on the galactic civil war, a war that spans the stars?

[Transmogrifier 1,277]

The "Briefs" tab gives a bit more info on what the assignments for each piece were

 

https://ilmchallenge.artstation.com/briefs/

 

Coming up with concepts for a new "Danji" faction with relevant ship designs and also a character covered several of the assignment prompts.

[AugustineS 304]

 

Seeing all this awesomeness from artists around the world is even more reason why New Era ships are so lame.

 

Seriously, all these great designs are out there, and JJ gives us split-wing X-Wings, a Chubby Star Destroyer, repainted TIEs and a Bat Wing.

You do realise that the split wing X-Wing is directly taken from Ralph McQuarrie's original concept sketches, right? Just like Chopper and Zeb from Rebels? That wasn't some new designer you can brush off, that was from the original master himself!

 

 

 

Seeing all this awesomeness from artists around the world is even more reason why New Era ships are so lame.

 

Seriously, all these great designs are out there, and JJ gives us split-wing X-Wings, a Chubby Star Destroyer, repainted TIEs and a Bat Wing.

You do realise that the split wing X-Wing is directly taken from Ralph McQuarrie's original concept sketches, right? Just like Chopper and Zeb from Rebels? That wasn't some new designer you can brush off, that was from the original master himself!

 

I keep getting bothered by the constant reuse of early concepts. There was, at the time, apparently good reason to discard them in favour of the versions that were used. Recycling them is missing the point.

[costi 1,109]

Did you notice that 'Danji' appeared in several of the submissions. One of the artists had on on a Deviantart page that designing a new race was part of the challenge. In most of the runners up, there was a picture of Mon Motha or Leia meeting the new race. The first place winner is also a similar picture. Could it be that the "Star Wars stories" spin off series will focus on the galactic civil war, a war that spans the stars?

I wouldn't expect too much from it - it was simply the assignment they were given, nothing more.

[sf1raptor 493]

Dang! These are awesome!