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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Jan 1

Here’s his interview with the Original Prop Blog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5b...

Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Jan 1

According to Cantwell, he asked if there was a waiting list and Wright replied, “Not for you.” However, after Wright’s death in 1959, Cantwell made the decision not to attend. Cantwell went on to work for NASA and on 2001: A Space Odyssey before designing for Star Wars…

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Jan 1

Cantwell’s first dream was to study architecture with Wright so personally presented his work at Taliesin. Wright was impressed enough with his work to invite him to join the Taliesin Fellowship. Pictured here is one of Cantwell’s architectural conceptual models…

One of Cantwell’s conceptual architectural models.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Jan 1

Colin Cantwell, concept designer of so many iconic Star Wars vehicles initially wanted to be an architect. He was accepted to study at Taliesin and Taliesin West by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright…

Cantwell discusses his prototype Y-Wing design with George Lucas

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 30

Production Designer Rick Carter on using collage; “It's all just about the process of visualizing. It's not so much a recreation, but a meditation on how I'm feeling at that moment and then what does that lead to…”

Some of his early work for Back to the Future Part II (1989).

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 27

Fricke says, "I look at the theater as a temple. The audience sits in the dark with their senses alert and their defenses down. It is the perfect opportunity to bypass the viewers' personalities and address a life-affirming message to their inner beings."

Article from @AmericanCine: https://theasc.com/articles/baraka-a-world-beyond-words

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 27

Baraka (1992). Directed/Cinematography by Ron Fricke. Roger Ebert wrote, “If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can carry only one film on board, that film might be Baraka."

Review by @ebertchicago: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-baraka-1993

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 24

Matte paintings by Rocco Gioffre for Gremlins (1984).

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 24

This was something I’d been thinking about recently- I think it’s Williams using the two note call children universally use to sing out to their parents (Mom-my). There was a documentary on this I saw years ago- trying to find it.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 22

Ralph McQuarrie's 1994 Lucasfilm Christmas Card of Jawas enjoying some holiday gift giving.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 20

Early Babu Frik concept art by Luke Fisher for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 19

Krypto the Superdog’s first appearance in March, 1955.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 19

Pre-production resin prototype Jetsam Fix-It model by the Industrial Light & Magic workshop for Batteries Not Included (1987).

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 18

Happy Birthday, Steven Spielberg!

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Episode 3 of Skeleton Crew.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 17

It was wild to recognize Jupiter’s cloud patterns in Andor.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 17

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Layout design of a view of Yubaba’s Bathhouse for Spirited Away [千と千尋の神隠し] (2001).

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Here’s a John Neill illustration from 1907 for reference.

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Designing Film @designingfilm.bsky.social · Dec 17

Tik-Tok from Return to Oz (1985). Three versions were built of the rotund, wind-up robot for the film by Lyle Conway. Production designer Norman Reynolds based the design on John Neill’s original illustrations for Ozma of Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum.