Kudos to Makingstarwars.net for posting some fantastic (and so far, unseen) aerial photos of the movie set for The Force Awakens.
Here are the aerial photos:
Yesterday, a couple websites, TheForce.net and Makingstarwars.net, have revealed new leaked concept art images for The Force Awakens, along with early sketches of BB-8, two new aliens, another new X-Wing pilot, and a new kind of Tie Fighter never before seen.
Concept art images of BB-8, New X-Wing pilot, and the two new aliens:
These concept art images of BB-8 and new aliens are really cool works of art, but what is surprising is the sketch of the new X-Wing pilot. Why? He looks to be a new type of alien that I have never seen before. Plus this is the first time I have ever seen an alien as an X-Wing pilot.
Also here the new alien drawn as a rebel technician and as a speeder bike thug:
Next here are some revealed concept art sketches of a new style of Tie fighter:
The sketches of this Tie fighter were inspired by a MB&F Music Machine 3, a luxury music box, built by a Swiss company. For more about the music box, check it out here. I think it would be a great design upgrade for the new movie.
On Starwars7news.com, the site features two Star Wars fans and members of the R2-D2 Builders Club who’ve turned their hobby into jobs with Lucasfilm. Oliver Steeples and Lee Towersey, now members of the Creature Effects team for The Force Awakens, will also use their robot-building for the new Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One movie.
Here’s an article on the two from Entertainment Weekly.
Many Star Wars fans have build their own R2-D2s, but only two turned the hobby into a job on TFA. In 2013 Oliver Steeples attended SWCE, where he met Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and “cheekly” told her that he was available if she ever needed an R2-D2. Six months later Steeples got the call from LFL, and he drafted his friend Lee Towersey, whom he knew through the R2-builders community, to help him out. “I still have to pinch myself,” says Towersey, who says he is currently working on Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One.
Although the article confirms Oliver and Lee are working on the new Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, there’s no word if R2-D2 is or isn’t going to appear in that movie. I would also like to give Oliver and Lee some credit on the work they do because they’re not only responsible for the making of R2-D2 (my favorite blue colored droid), but also several other new kinds of astromech droids (except for BB-8 who is currently being worked on by another team) that I have never seen before.
Sample of some of the new droids:
Boulder, Colorado toy company Sphero helped inspire the tech behind BB-8, a new droid that will appear in The Force Awakens. BB-8 may give R2-D2 and C-3PO a run for their money when it comes to most popular droid.
In case you forgot, here is a look at BB-8:
Sphero is a Boulder-based tech company that has been making smartphone controlled spherical toy balls (Sphero) for the last four years. You can buy Sphero ($155.18) now on Walmart.
So how did Sphero hook up with Disney to work on the Star Wars film? Sphero was part of the Disney Accelerator program, a “highly selective, immersive mentorship and investment program for technology-enabled startups in the media and entertainment space.” At the same time Sphero was in the program, Disney was finishing production on the Force Awakens.
While the company hasn’t officially announced a Star Wars tie-in, media reports hint that a BB-8 made by Sphero will be on store shelves by Christmas:
Source: CBS Denver.
The goal that Sphero has for the apple-sized BB-8s is to make sure that Star Wars fans will be able to take their very own little piece of the Force Awakens universe that they can carry with them. Stay tuned for more details!
Here’s a look at Artoo and BB-8 on stage:
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