“New York-based visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino has taken a series of eerie and beautiful photos that capture scenes of abandoned Hollywood film sets. Martino spent over a year traveling throughout the desert towns of Morocco and Tunisia hunting down the old Star Wars sets. ‘No More Stars’ showcases the backdrop of Luke Skywalker’s home on the fictional desert planet Tatooine, its massive structures that now stand like ancient ruins forgotten by time and man.”
“This intriguing image appeared in STAR WARS INSIDER magazine a few years back. I’m assuming it’s from JEDI, and that it’s some kind of early make-up test for Carrie Fisher as Leia rather than a promotional image (during the films late ‘81/early ‘82 pre-production, there were lots of hairstyle artwork ideas for Leia, too- some of which never made it into the film).
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Interview of a lifetime.
(via wookieekisses)
I often hear people say they want less blue screen/green screen/CGI in their Star Wars films. This post isn’t to say that Episode I-III had less screen work or fake environmental shots, but that the Episode IV-VI had tons of the same types of work in them and analogue compositing isn’t anywhere near as good as digital compositing.
