Check out Star Wars: The Last Jedi concept art by Jake Lunt!
The adorable Porgs from "The Last Jedi" took the Internet by storm. Now one of the talented concept artists working on the film has shared his work on the Porgs and other creatures for the film. He also talked about the design process to StarWars.com.
Jake Lunt Davies is a professional concept artist who's worked on big budget projects like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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"They came before the porgs and again, that was a one-word brief: 'puffin people.'" Lunt told StarWars. "Okay, so it was more than a one-word brief…two words: 'puffin people.' And then we were told that they were going to be sort of nuns. They were not necessarily a holy order, by like nuns they were an all-female community of indigenous aliens that lived this slightly monastic lifestyle.
"They had some role that was important to the Jedi, perhaps. That was kind of it, really. We started to look at aquatic animals. The color ways of puffins combined with aquatic animals, I suppose. And I drew lots of things that were riffing off walruses and seals and whales. I’d done a handful of different drawings, and you can sort of see in about three different drawings, elements that came together. So for instance, in one drawing, Rian [Johnson] liked the fact that they’ve got bird feet. But the rest of it he wasn’t that keen on, it had a mask on or something like that.
"So we combined a few different elements, and what you end up with, and what I liked about the Caretakers, is that you have this very chunky and, again, quite simple shaped upper body, and tiny, little, thin legs. You get this great silhouette of the Caretakers."
Here are some more designs for Canto Bight aliens and other fun stuff
See more of Jake Lunt's portfolio at http://www.jakelunt.com
Click on the links if you want to see more of Jake Lunt's work or Star Wars: The Last Jedi artwork on my blog.
What do you think of the concept art? If you've seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi what do you think of the look?
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The adorable Porgs from "The Last Jedi" took the Internet by storm. Now one of the talented concept artists working on the film has shared his work on the Porgs and other creatures for the film. He also talked about the design process to StarWars.com.
Jake Lunt Davies is a professional concept artist who's worked on big budget projects like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Click on the images to enlarge
The Porgs
"From what I gathered, Rian [Johnson] had gone to shoot this sequence on Skellig Michael, which is the real island location that stands in for Ahch-To, and that island is covered in puffins," Lunt told StarWars. "It’s a wildlife preserve and everywhere you look there are hundreds of birds dotted around the landscape. From what I gathered, Rian, in a positive spin on this, was looking at how can he work with this. You can’t remove them. You physically can’t get rid of them. And digitally removing them is an issue and a lot of work, so let’s just roll with it, play with it. And so I think he thought, 'Well, that’s great, let’s have our own indigenous species.'
"We’d already started work on the Caretakers, which again was a brief from Rian. We’d just been told 'puffin people.' Yeah, there was going to be this race of people and puffins again were a source of inspiration for Rian. The puffins were sort of a big influence on everything, really."
The Caretakers
"They had some role that was important to the Jedi, perhaps. That was kind of it, really. We started to look at aquatic animals. The color ways of puffins combined with aquatic animals, I suppose. And I drew lots of things that were riffing off walruses and seals and whales. I’d done a handful of different drawings, and you can sort of see in about three different drawings, elements that came together. So for instance, in one drawing, Rian [Johnson] liked the fact that they’ve got bird feet. But the rest of it he wasn’t that keen on, it had a mask on or something like that.
"So we combined a few different elements, and what you end up with, and what I liked about the Caretakers, is that you have this very chunky and, again, quite simple shaped upper body, and tiny, little, thin legs. You get this great silhouette of the Caretakers."
Bantha
Here are some more designs for Canto Bight aliens and other fun stuff
See more of Jake Lunt's portfolio at http://www.jakelunt.com
Click on the links if you want to see more of Jake Lunt's work or Star Wars: The Last Jedi artwork on my blog.
What do you think of the concept art? If you've seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi what do you think of the look?
© Copyright 2017 Lucasfilm Ltd., Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. All rights reserved.
Follow @filmsketchr
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