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THBSTAR WARS ORIGINAL PRE-PRODUCTION FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATION BY COLIN CANTWELL
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One of eight pieces of original pre-production art created by Colin Cantwell for George Lucas in imagining the spaceships that might populate the Star Wars (20th Century, 1977) universe, circa 1974/1975. This full-color mixed media (predominantly colored pencil) illustration features an early design of the Imperial Star Destroyer, as seen in the previous lot, though this piece depicts a space battle. The base of the vessel shares the basic shape and design of the final version of the ship, though the control tower is fixed on the opposite end. This version is also more complex, with a second section protruding from the front and short wings on the side and three radar dish-like laser weapons affixed to the ends of those three pieces; two of these weapons are firing, destroying fighter craft. In the foreground is a floating, partially destroyed fighter craft. The design of these ships is similar to the Y-Wing craft, which Cantwell is credited as creating in model prototype form (as with the Imperial Star Destroyer). The smaller fighter craft provide an idea of scale. The backdrop on this piece is space (no planets). From the collection of Cantwell, who was among the first approached by Lucas to work on the original Star Wars film back in 1974. Cantwell was asked to head up ILM, but he did not want to be tied down to a long-term obligation at that time. Cantwell's most notable contribution was working closely with Lucas on the spaceship designs for Star Wars : A New Hope (now known as Episode IV). Cantwell was provided with “Copy #4” of the screenplay, then titled “Adventures of The Starkiller (episode one); The Star Wars.” Cantwell is known as the creator of the first and original prototype models and designs of the X-Wing, Y-Wing, Tie Fighter, Star Destroyer, Death Star, Landspeeder, Sandcrawler, and Millennium Falcon as well as the T-16 Skyhopper that Luke Skywalker is seen playing with in the film. What has just recently been discovered is that in addition to the models, in pre-production discussions, Cantwell created full-color illustrations of some of those same ships prior to creating the models. This mixed media illustration was done predominantly with colored pencil with multilayered sections glued onto illustrative backgrounds, akin to an animation cell. In his youth, Cantwell studied both in arts and sciences and thus worked with UCLA to create the university's animation degree and was their first animation graduate; he also worked and trained with Disney animators. This is one of the eight original illustrations created by Cantwell for Lucas in realizing his vision of Star Wars .
PROVENANCE From the Collection of Colin Cantwell
Approximately 13 by 10 inches
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