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Ahsoka at the Dathomiri Nightsister temple on Arcana.

Credit: Matt Allsopp, Matt Allsopp, Jama Jurabaev, Matt Allsopp

Iain McCaig concept art for Queen Amidala. THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999).

Can’t believe that film will be twenty years old soon.

Character Design: Finding the Look of Ahsoka Tano

Ahsoka first appeared in a 2005 sketch by Dave Filoni. In that pencil sketch, she was just a shy Togruta girl peeking out from beneath her oversized Jedi hood.

Audiences wouldn’t meet the character for another THREE YEARS, and over that time she tried on different costumes and facial markings and had her named changed from Ashla, before the team arrived at the version that made it to Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie.

Believe it or not, her final look was greatly influenced by San in Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke.

An early maquette had more angular features, but George Lucas voiced some concerns over her larger alien head, suggesting softening her features to make her more relatable. This gave us the final – and much loved – Ahsoka Tano!

Clone Armor Concept Art

From The Clone Wars Episode Guides

The amazing concept art of Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars

Artbook: Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie

Art by Ralph McQuarrie for the second Death Star. RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983).

Originally, the Rebel attack that’s the climax of the film was going to be on Had Abaddon, capital of the Empire. Hence those McQuarrie paintings of Coruscant I posted yesterday. If you read the story conferences for ROTJ, you can see it was a close call actually—the plan to use Had Abaddon comes back almost as often as it’s discarded—but eventually, to the others’ dismay, Lucas chose to go with a second Death Star. One of those What Ifs.

ROTJ was the first Star Wars film I saw, so for me it wasn’t a second Death Star: it was a rather eerie zombie construction that looked like the ghost of a dead moon. I thought it was a fascinating sight anyway.

Lothal Temple atrium interior illustration by Andre Kirk

Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars concepts

The Revwien were a species of sentient plantlike beings native to Revyia in the Outer Rim. Their unique biology and culture made them one of the most unusual species in the galaxy. Force-sensitive Revwien had a rich philosophy called Tyia based on harmonious connection to living things.

Source - The Art of Episode IV: A New Hope (Art: Ron Cobb; 1979)

First Appearance - Droids 6: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book I (1987)

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