As early as the early 1970s, concept art became an important part of the development of the Star Wars series of films. The film’s conceptual design directors Ryan Church and Eric Timmens began to lead the art department to the design of the film as early as Lucas’s script was not completed, and every detail in the film All were put into practice, and the concepts of all vehicles, scenes, equipment and clothing appeared in the film were perfected one by one in a year.
General Grievous’s design is one of the most difficult problems, because Lucas found the art department before he knew what Grievous was. The designers only knew that they wanted to combine aliens and robots. And it looks scary. Later, Lucas adopted the design of Chinese-American concept designer Fu Jianhua, so Grievous turned into a biological robot.
The art department also helps production designers and costume designers to complete the design. Among them, production designer Gavin Bauquet is responsible for the design and construction of 72 main sets. They must not only be seamlessly integrated with the digital special effects completed by Industrial Light and Magic a few months later, but also with the previous Star Wars movies. Something related. For example, to reproduce the main passage on the Shinshi spacecraft blocked by the rebellion in "New Hope", it must be rebuilt bit by bit according to the remaining design drawings because it must be strictly consistent with the previously demolished setting. Costume designer Tereza Biga not only wants to reproduce the clothes worn by Darth Vader in 1977, but also to deal with the heavy mission of 500 sets of clothes in the film, and do her best to explore unique fabrics to create The overall style of the film coincides with the exotic style.
In order to give full play to the decisive battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan and other fighting scenes, the martial arts instructors Nick Girard and George Lucas divided the abilities of the Jedi Knights into levels 1 to 10. Among them, Obi-Wan It was level 8, while Anakin was level 9. Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin, and Ivan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan, began rehearsals and training immediately after arriving in Sydney. Christensen’s training program was particularly difficult.
