Category: Star Wars

How to make $100,000 as a Video Game Artist or 102 Art, Life and Games Lessons from a Former Star Wars Artist – by Mirena Rhee. The book is now on Amazon

***Lucasfilm Lessons ( And Silicon Valley in general ), **Pick Me Up and Don't Ever Put Me Down, My Books, Star Wars, The Lucasfilm Files

 

 

Why 102? – the book is not 101, and there are infinite numbers between 101 and 102…

 

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YP26D6J
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Little girls dream of dolls, I dreamed of spaceships and aliens. I was a natural fit. I became a Star Wars artist.

The book is meant for all the underdogs, for all the weird kids and the misfits. The young and not so young adults who read strange books and ask odd questions. And who feel there’s nothing going for them, and that there’s no hope. They feel stuck and they feel rejected. But they have dreams and imagination.

I’m here to tell you there’s not only hope, but even your wildest dreams will become true and a lot more.

This book is meant to entertain and inspire. This book is for dreamers and misfits who like to do great things, and who want to live 500 years. This book is also for people who live in their heads, in science fiction books, in comets and black holes and video games.

This book will inspire you to do something in the world that not anyone else can do.

It is the anti 4-hours workweek book. It is very popular these days, and there are people proud of it, that they work 4-hour work weeks. Every cow chews for more than 4 hours a week. A woodpecker probably works more than 4 hours a week. Are you a woodpecker? Grown men want to sit by the pool. Toads sit by the pool. We are not toads. I don’t want to be a toad. I want to be the first performance artist on Mars. I have 50,000 years worth of projects in my notebooks.

By the time you finish the book – start thinking of the next 50,000 years of projects of your own. The video games, the paintings, the drawings, the art, the illustrations, the rockets you are gonna blow up in your backyard, the rovers on Jupiter that you wanna build, the space time you are gonna fold, who knows. Come up with your own job that you want to do in the world, don’t wait for someone.

I wrote the book to inspire anti-beach dreams, why would someone dream of a beach. You just get a.. ticket? Burn on your passions instead, on dreams, to create, to do. To learn and to inspire others in turn.

This is also the anti-life-hacking and anti-hackpreneur lifestyle book – man that looks bad even as a word. All the preneurs out there want to be by a beach. I was getting sick of seeing grown men sitting by pools, and sandy shores. Sand dunes are by the beach. I don’t want to be a sand dune. I wanted to give kids and young adults something else to aspire to rather than scheduling flights all over the place. Anyone can go anywhere these days – buying a plane ticket is not a profession. I want to inspire kids and young adults to come up with something of their own that they can do, and to dream of their life’s work, of great and amazing things to do rather than a lounge chair.

Starships

3D, 3D Models, Film, Sci-Fi, Space, Star Wars

The making of Starship – Live! 24/7 SpaceX Boca Chica Complex

and Starships of the mind too.
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…Love spaceships and still spend a lot of time thinking of ships, 3d modeling them, very partial about the Mars rovers. Still think Rama would be a great movie and one of the adventures that kept me on the edge of my seat every time I re-read the books. The creative space starships occupy is a strange one, lots of creative people have taken on spaceships themes, like Asimov, George, Kubrick, Clarke, on the other hand also out there real scientists who build nasa rovers.
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It seems it is bizarre I spent most of my life being terrified of flying. Actually there was a space of about three years when i could not get on a plane and a wing tip would throw me into a tailspin but we don’t wanna talk about this do we.

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The Heart of Gold is still my favorite.
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There was a strange tree in a hard science fiction novel where the tree had to be stoked with fires to fly through a universe very dense and with strange gravity. The novel was called Raft. Once i made a pen and ink drawing about it i think.
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Rama has been dominating my imagination for the longest time. Also the Raman Node from the later Rama books, the later books were filled with incredible ships of various sizes and purpose taking deep voyages and carrying many species to unknown destinations. It blows my mind until this day when i need to be shopping, probably, by what I think advertisers think of me, for handbags.
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The moment where Rama meets the Node and many exciting things happen and we meet Raman intelligence. It too blows my mind.

“..The Rama spacecraft rendezvous with another Node, an enormous tetrahedron near the star Tau Ceti, designed to research any intelligent life capable of spaceflight. ..”
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With Star Destroyers coming close second for intimidation factor and making us prickly with anticipation when entering the big screen and gliding over our heads.

 

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Star Destroyers size comparison
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Super Star Destroyer Executor complete scene. It is as badass as they come.

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Starships Size comparison
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Rama from Rendezvous with Rama would have been a good addition ( 50-kilometre /31 mile cylindrical alien starship ). Also one of my favorite ships ever. Wish Ridley would have undertaken Rendezvous with Rama and the Rama franchise.

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Chart of all the spaceships to scale
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Chart of all the spaceships to scale

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Star Wars Spaceship Sounds

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A Bit More from Jodorowsky’s Dune Starships
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Jodorowsky's Dune Ship Concept art

 

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Jodorowsky's Dune Ship Concept art

 

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Jodorowsky's Dune Spacecraft Concept Art

 

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Okay – more Star Wars:
Behind the Scenes of Star Wars: The Original Trilogy ILM Special Effects Makers.
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and the goodies with the man.
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Here are my favorite Star Wars spaceships. I made them.

A bunch of the here, Awing, BlockadeRunner, Bwing, Dropship, ImperialShuttle, RebelTransport, Geonosian battlecruiser, SnowSpeeder, TieBomber, TieSaber, Xwing:

X-Wing:

 

Snowspeeder. Remember when Luke brought down an Imperial armada.. with a cable?

 

 

Blue A-wing:

Red A-wing:

A bunch of the here, including an AT-AT.AT-AT is not a ship but I love it nevertheless, I am kind of obsessed with it:

Millennium Falcon:

Imperial Shuttle:

B-wing: