Concept Art

Use this thread to post various concept art that you may have come across.

I for one am eager to see what kinds of things our universe may have had in it..

 

A lot of EU material actually comes from discarded, unused movie concept art. The Corellian gunship, Saato, Juggernaut tank etc are good examples of them.

 

Saato? From Karate Kid 2? "You see your father . . . then you see me!"

Not once could my bros and I keep a straight face when hearing that. Not once. It's disgusting.

 

I remember seeing some early designs for the Jedi interceptor from RotS..

 

Some of Marka Ragnos from one of those Katarn games:

[image=http://www.autodestruct.com/images/academy_ragnos.jpg]


A Whole lot of AOTC and ROTS concept art at Ryan Church's Site


There's a lot of places, a lot of art...

 

Some cool Ralph McQuarrie stuff

[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/SW/images/popups/Hope%2002.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/SW/images/popups/Hope%2005.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/SW/images/popups/Hope%2006.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/SW/images/popups/Hope%2017.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/SW/images/popups/Hope%2018.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/empire/images/popups/Empire%2012%20Big.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/empire/images/popups/Empire%2013%20Big.jpg]
[image=http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/galleries/jedi/images/popups/Jedi%2009.jpg]

 

Didn't the "Sith Witch" Maul concept turn into what Nightsisters look like?

 

Yup, turned into Mighella:

[image=http://www.dmeb2.org/pictures/preproduction/sithwitch1_lg.jpg]

 

Some concept art by Greg Knight from "Republic Commando", which I personally find awsome.

[image=http://mojoart.mixnmojo.com/original-art/republic-commando/concept-art/11.jpg]
[image=http://mojoart.mixnmojo.com/original-art/republic-commando/concept-art/15.jpg]

The rest is here:
Mojo Art

 

And don't forget Ventress was based on a tossed out idea for a female Sith in AOTC.

I always found the most interesting "what could have been" idea to be Kenner's rejected plans for the new Clone Wars or whatever it was to be called. IIRC, the villan they had designed was used as a guard in SOTE.

 

Yoda went through a lot of different looks before settling on what we saw in ESB. My two favorites were the little fat one that looked like a Gnome or a back-to-nature Santa Clause, and the one that's got a pretty similar (albeit younger) head on an average-height, effemenite, humanoid body. Too lazy to look for any scans right now.

Anyone got any art for the KOTOR era? I bet there's some cool stuff there.

 

The "Making of Revenge of the Sith" book has a picture, that I've always thought looks cool, of "evil" Ithorians working as mercenaries for the CIS. In addition, the book includes pictures of the various concepts for what General Grievous might look like. These pictures ranged from the final version to other concepts including a demonic-looking alien, a hovering droid, and a child genius.

Also, in the same book, there's a picture of a Jedi Knight leaping over the head of a larger companion. When I first saw this picture, I thought, "Woah...that kicks you-know-what!!!"

 

Reviewing the the concept art that are posted on the OS... I'd say those and the multitudes of other ones kept in the storage somewhere is a wealth of EU... I wonder if Abel, other authors and other artists are allowed a peek into those for ideas. Also I wonder why they need to reuse rpg art and other art when LFL probably has a whole vault full of great art.