[D] Best humanoid robot at Maker Faire Tokyo 2019? from r/robotics
Star Killer in the Wampa cave
ever before seen footage from #StarWars #theForce Unleashed.
I am currently finishing writing my #book
How to make
$100,000 as a
#VideoGame #Artist or
101 Art, Life and #Games
Lessons from a Former
Star Wars
Artist
and found Star Killer in the Wampa cave footage. Enjoy!
Starships
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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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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Star Wars Spaceship Sounds
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A Bit More from Jodorowsky’s Dune Starships
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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:
How Star Wars Almost Didn’t Happen “Nobody’s ever going to let anybody just make a movie. You have to go out and do it!”
No one is ever going to let you do anything. Don’t ask.
https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/05/how-star-wars-almost-didnt-happen/
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Lucas especially clashed with the film’s cinematographer, Gilbert Taylor (Dr. Strangelove, The Omen), who thought the movie was a joke, and George wanted him fired, but Lucas’ longtime producer, Gary Kurtz, didn’t want to let him go because he was afraid the entire camera crew would leave with him.
Even with an army of great FX artists working on Star Wars, like John Dykstra (Battlestar Galactica) and Dennis Muren (E.T., Terminator 2), Lucas still couldn’t get what he saw in his head and told people he was only getting 40% of his vision. (Lucas had wanted Douglas Trumbull, the FX wizard behind 2001 and Silent Running, to do Star Wars, but he turned it down.)
Then try to imagine showing Star Wars to the Fox executives with less than half the FX finished. Jay Cocks, who was at the screening, recalled the rough cut had temporary footage from World War II movies, and Lucas tried to explain, “Okay, these are World War II fighters, but you’re supposed to think they’re spaceships!”
“This was not a successful screening,” Cocks recalled. “It was a real challenge to the viewer. Two people liked it: Me and Steven Spielberg. Brian DePalma kept giving George terrible grief about the tractor beam!” Yet the next day DePalma and Cocks helped Lucas rewrite the prolog at the beginning of the film. Cocks told him, “George, you gotta make people understand that this is a fairy tale.” (A source close to Lucas would also claim that Cocks came up with the legendary tagline, “A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” but Cocks doesn’t recall this.)
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Lucas felt Spielberg’s sci-fi epic, Close Encounters, which was shooting at the same time as Star Wars, would be a much bigger hit, and he felt terribly dejected that so little on Star Wars was going his way. In fact, the whole Star Wars experience was so demoralizing for Lucas, he swore he’d never direct again, and he didn’t for 20 years.
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also amazing article on the Star Wars posters, so much loving nostalgia.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/star-wars-the-posters-14ad09654325/
The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes
https://www.fastcompany.com/1826869/lost-steve-jobs-tapes
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Of the three companies Jobs helped create, Pixar was the purest corporate and organizational expression of his nature. If NeXT was a travail of spite and malice, Pixar was a labor of love.
The Pixar story began even before Jobs left Apple. In early 1985, Apple fellow Alan Kay called his attention to the computer Graphics Group (GG) skunk works in San Rafael, California, an ill-fitting piece of the filmmaking production puzzle George Lucas had assembled for his Skywalker Ranch studios. It was little more than a team of 25 engineers–including a young “user interface designer” named John Lasseter–who desperately wanted to continue to work together even though Lucas, then embroiled in the costly aftermath of a divorce, was looking
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Amazing read – if you ever want to get anything done well – read on Steve. We are so lucky to have lived in this visionary product creator’s time on earth. To hold his ideas in the shape of devices in our hands. I can’t imagine having to labour on the wooden barrel of windows all my life if Steve hadn’t come up with the mac.
Star Wars: A New Hope Bloopers
Would you, Sir, like me to hold you in the air..
The Man who literally built Star Wars, and the Light Saber
The Man Who Literally Built ‘Star Wars’
Set decorator Roger Christian tells us what it was like making George Lucas’s dreams out of scrap metal in this esquire article.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28570/star-wars-roger-christian/
How an Antique Camera Flash Became the Most Iconic Star Wars Prop
https://petapixel.com/2017/02/14/antique-camera-flash-became-iconic-star-wars-prop/
