Author Amy Ratcliffe shares some images from the upcoming book The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, coming from Abrams Books on April 27th.
The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge includes everything from photographs, to rough layouts and sketches, to character designs, to gorgeously detailed full-color concept art. The same team that works on Star Wars movies at Lucasfilm and ILM joined forces with Imagineering to, well, imagine the immersive theme park land at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. They went big with their ideas, throwing a ton of possibilities at the wall. Concept art is all about exploration. About shaking off convention and constraints and seeing what happens. So, in that spirit, let’s take a look at one idea for Savi’s Workshop, the experience in Galaxy’s Edge where guests build lightsabers.
Abrams Books/Eduardo Pena
This idea illustrated by concept artist Eduardo Pena puts Huyang from Star Wars: The Clone Wars in the experience. In a particularly memorable arc of the animated series, Huyang led younglings in the practice of building a lightsaber.
Abrams Books/Andrew Domachowski
Let’s travel to the shop beside Savi’s: Droid Depot, run by an unseen proprietor named Mubo. An Utai who recently appeared in the Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge VR experience, Mubo is the boss at Droid Depot. You don’t see him in the parks, but Imagineering and Lucasfilm still explored what he might look like. ILM senior concept artist Andrew Domachowski created this illustration of Mubo.
Abrams Books/Dave Filoni
Then onto another of Black Spire Outpost’s colorful characters: Hondo Ohnaka. He’s running a respectable business now and stars as a central character in the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction. None other than Dave Filoni created the above art imagining what an older Hondo might look like after his decades and decades as a pirate.
Abrams Books/Erik Tiemens
Last but not least, an exploration of a souk toy shop by Lucasfilm concept design supervisor Erik Tiemens—whose work you’ll see frequently throughout the book. This is one idea for a toy shop in Black Spire’s busy market. I so enjoyed seeing these rougher sketches. And Tiemens completed many of them over the years of development for Galaxy’s Edge.
We look forward to reading the book when it is available on April 27th, pre-order now from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
