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Star Wars Fan Trailer Featuring Ralph McQuarrie’s Original Concept Art

Star Wars Fan Trailer Featuring Ralph McQuarrie's Original Concept Art
The importance of Ralph McQuarrie’s original concept art for Star Wars can not be understated. It still influences the designs and creatures we see in the films, in comics, and on TV. His legacy lives on. This fan film is a lovingly made trailer that brings McQuarrie’s art to life to show us a Star Wars we never got to see. It is so well done and beautiful. It’s nice to see that people still appreciate McQuarrie’s work after all of these years.

Scifi Staff by — December 14, 2017 in Animation/Fun Videos 0
Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available

Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available
At last we can pre-order the Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue. Without Ralph McQuarrie’s conceptual drawings and paintings, Star Wars would have been a completely different experience. His vision helped to shape the world that George Lucas had created. This awesome Stormtrooper was inspired by Ralph McQuarrie’s pre-production artwork for Star Wars: A New Hope.

This 1:5th scale soldier of the Empire looks amazing. He has several display options: carrying a shield in one hand while wielding a lightsaber or blaster in the other, and he also has distinctive helmets and armor that more closely resembled fighter pilot gear than the final costumes seen in the film. McQuarrie’s Stormtrooper design comes to life at last in statue form.

Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available

Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available

Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available

Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available

Ralph McQuarrie Stormtrooper Statue Now Available

Scifi Staff by — September 7, 2015 in Toys/Collectibles 0
Ralph McQuarrie Concept Art For The Original Star Wars Trilogy

I absolutely love Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art from Star Wars and thanks to redditor Join_You_In_The_Sun I am in heaven looking at 100 images of Ralph McQuarrie’s art from the original trilogy.

Below are some of my favorites. I just can’t get enough of his vision of the Star Wars universe. Almost every single painting is epic and they really visually steered Star Wars into what it became on screen. Love these!

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ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

ralph mcquarrie star wars art

via reddit

Scifi Staff by — January 16, 2015 in Art 0
Concept Art For The Forbidden Planet Remake That Never Happened

You may not be aware, but back in 1995, Irvin Kershner tried to make a remake of Forbidden Planet. Sadly, the project never happened, but Ralph McQuarrie, John Eaves, Mark McCreery, Syd Mead, and Stan Winston were already doing some work on it. We can take a look at McQuarrie and Mead’s work here.

The McQuarrie concept art has immense sets where the humans are like ants and the Mead art shows off the technology that we would have seen. From what we can see here, this would have been quite the epic. We can only dream about how amazing this stuff would have looked on screen.

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

forbidden planet concept art

via io9

Scifi Staff by — August 20, 2014 in Art 0
Battlestar Galactica 35th Anniversary Art Portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie

Fans of Battlestar Galactica will want to own this Battlestar Galactica 35th Anniversary Art Portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie book. Inside you will be thrilled to find 24 of Ralph’s Original concept paintings of: A fleet of Battlestars, The Cylon assult on Caprica, Baltar brought before the Imperious Leader, The bridge of the Galactica, The Tylioum mines of the insect-like Ovions and many more.

I could get absorbed in this for hours. As with Star Wars, Ralph McQuarrie was instrumental in shaping Battlestar Galactica. Most know that he was involved with Star Wars, but many don’t realize the influence he had with Battlestar.

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Scifi Staff by — August 19, 2014 in Books 0