Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie - scene and painting comparisons

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  • čas přidán 15. 04. 2016
  • My tribute to the great Ralph McQuarrie, the artist who was responsible to bring George Lucas ideas to reality.
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  • @hanniffydinn6019
    @hanniffydinn6019 Před 7 lety +111

    Pure genius Ralph is who created the Star Wars visual universe.

  • @matthewstringer5675
    @matthewstringer5675 Před 7 lety +131

    I love how close they made the films to Ralph's original paintings

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety +27

      even the new ones and the cartoons
      they are always looking for unused ralph mcquarrie paintings and sketchs

    • @matthewstringer5675
      @matthewstringer5675 Před 7 lety +4

      Dimitri Bitu I can see why the guys creative vision is incredible

    • @aylix2137
      @aylix2137 Před 7 lety +1

      Matthew Stringer Likely one of the larger reasons they were so successful.

    • @amin_taheri
      @amin_taheri Před 4 lety +2

      They recently used his original design of emperor's throne in ep. 9

    • @chocotrueno3602
      @chocotrueno3602 Před 3 lety

      And the spider in season 2 episode 2 of the mandalorian

  • @chesterfield7089
    @chesterfield7089 Před 7 lety +34

    Ralph deserves any amount of money for creating this magnificent universe he has made for us to enjoy. Not only our life time but for our children and children's children to enjoy. God rest his soul.

  • @lukas562
    @lukas562 Před 7 lety +50

    brilliant artist, rest in peace, ralph

  • @andyarg.1152
    @andyarg.1152 Před 5 lety +6

    Love 80’s movies..never again these masterpieces..

  • @MegaRudeBoy69
    @MegaRudeBoy69 Před 6 lety +12

    Considering the creative process, it's amazing how much was kept 1:1, but you can see how they changed stuff, as the franchise went on.

  • @max_mittler
    @max_mittler Před 2 lety +1

    One of the greatest visionaries in sci fi history. I just know george's original descriptions were probably amazing but he could never have predicted just how perfect and awesome Ralphs images would be.

  • @noahlawson8405
    @noahlawson8405 Před 5 lety +5

    The concept art at 9:24 was used in the Star Wars Holiday Special for some exterior shots.

  • @darkempire37
    @darkempire37 Před 7 lety +15

    love this comparison , one little nitpick though , the sketch of the second death star around the 7:26 mark was by production designer Joe Johnston , all the other stuff is Mcquarrie though . amazing work .thank you for making and sharing this .

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety +7

      oh shit, thanks for pointing out!
      thanks! :)

  • @ellecue
    @ellecue Před 7 lety +10

    I just go the comprehensive art books, Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, and this video is a nice complement. It was nice to hear the artist's voice. Thanks for making this.

  • @svijj_
    @svijj_ Před 5 lety +8

    Did I only noticed, that Resistance X-wings are based of what X-wings were suposed to look in the first place?

  • @cooper4590
    @cooper4590 Před 6 lety +14

    I like how the new trilogy’s xwings have engine intakes very similar to the original artworks, maybe a subtle tribute?

    • @FKMDC
      @FKMDC Před 4 lety +4

      Even the Millenium Falcon design in Solo is simillar to the original work

  • @JafuetTheSame
    @JafuetTheSame Před 7 lety +54

    i believe he is responsible for succes of star wars more than anyone else

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety +21

      in my opinion
      1 George Lucas
      2 Ralph McQuarrie
      3 Dennis Muren/ Joe Johnston/ Gary Kurtz
      3 Ben Burtt
      4 John Williams

    • @Airehcaz
      @Airehcaz Před 6 lety +17

      In my opinion, the film would have been a miserable failure without the amazing editors that turned Star Wars from a mess to a masterpiece.
      George Lucas’s rough cut was a jumbled mess of (really cool) ideas, thank goodness they good editors! The music score helped too of course ^_^

    • @Grivian
      @Grivian Před 2 lety +5

      @@Airehcaz George Lucas was supervising every part of the movie. The terrible first cut wasn't done by Lucas, it was done by his first editor who Lucas fired when he didn't want to edit it in a way that Lucas wanted. The editing that his wife and the others did were based on the requests from Lucas. Any creative changes that they wanted to do had to go through Lucas. Also John Williams made an absolutely fantastic job with the music, yet he had many meetings with Lucas to go through what the vision of the music was.

    • @Hal--bk3oc
      @Hal--bk3oc Před rokem +2

      @@dimitreze No...how could you put Williams last, especially after the producers?

  • @RebelBuilder
    @RebelBuilder Před 8 lety +9

    Great video! It's amazing how close the movies turned out.

  • @chrisval04
    @chrisval04 Před 8 lety +10

    Ralph/George: The great symbiosis!

  • @swagathon6967
    @swagathon6967 Před 2 lety

    Looking at Ralph’s work I feel that what truly shines through is the essence of Star Wars . The surreal futuristic landscapes looking mystical and never before seen makes this seem so much more like a galaxy far far away

  • @Cityaperture
    @Cityaperture Před 7 lety +3

    I'm sharing this with everyone I know, I love Ralph McQuarrie's work and you did an awesome job editing this together.

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety

      I love his work too! I made this with such love and care.
      Thanks for sharing with your friends. :)

  • @wabisabi3343
    @wabisabi3343 Před 6 lety +16

    0:12 Oh my god, I can't believe that I JUST realized that's C1-10P aka Chopper from rebels!

  • @SgtZaqq
    @SgtZaqq Před 7 lety +14

    Awesome video, thanks! And the music from KOTOR was a surprise :)

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety +8

      yeah, I couldn't use the music from the movies so I thought to use something similar ;)

  • @illusions97
    @illusions97 Před 8 lety +2

    This is an absolutely beautiful video. Thank you, sir, for posting it!

  • @olivier3847
    @olivier3847 Před 7 lety +27

    is there any artwork of mcquarrie before star wars?

  • @arturdomanski7102
    @arturdomanski7102 Před 6 lety +2

    I never realized importance of Ralph McQuarrie on the look of SW.

  • @thespacecatjenkins8539
    @thespacecatjenkins8539 Před 4 lety +4

    9:16 AND NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE SAND PEOPLE DO SIGN LANGUAGE IN THE MANDALORIAN

  • @minicle426
    @minicle426 Před 2 lety +1

    The music goes well with the images.

  • @solanoscrossoverproduction3930

    Catchy beat at the end

  • @zoobee
    @zoobee Před 8 lety

    Amazing, thank you for this great tribute to a great artist

  • @russellkellett9535
    @russellkellett9535 Před rokem +1

    Worlds greatest artist

  • @ellhil12
    @ellhil12 Před 8 lety +3

    I loved this video and learned so much about the concept art for these timeless films!!! My fave concept art was at 4:59 and 7:20. Great video!!!

  • @rageoftheredphoenix
    @rageoftheredphoenix Před 6 lety

    Great art work /conceptual work. I need to learn from him for my story.

  • @emendez3809
    @emendez3809 Před 5 lety

    The Master and the Apprentice = Ralph McQuarrie and George Lucas... Thank you to both of them for giving us Star Wars.

  • @FKMDC
    @FKMDC Před 4 lety +1

    Star Wars Rebels is Ralph Mcquarrie's work brought to life. Just look at the designs

  • @neil6958
    @neil6958 Před 8 lety

    Wow - Just fantastic!

  • @OracleTheRonin
    @OracleTheRonin Před 2 lety

    'They were just sketches' wow! talk about humble

  • @ShotDrawnCut
    @ShotDrawnCut Před 4 lety

    Excellent vid!

  • @Vilen30
    @Vilen30 Před 6 lety +1

    This trailer show us that concept work shoud be finished before production is running

  • @max_mittler
    @max_mittler Před 2 lety

    Ralph, John Williams, and George Lucas are all the godfathers of sci-fi cinema in my mind

  • @yegenek
    @yegenek Před 7 lety +6

    He was the real genius behind Star Wars.

  • @TheCombatartist
    @TheCombatartist Před 3 lety

    First and foremost he was a wounded war Veteran. Thank you Ralph, slow salute. Rest.

  • @Dan.50
    @Dan.50 Před 4 lety +1

    The OT was lightening in a bottle. All the stars lined up.

  • @MrNeuroamante
    @MrNeuroamante Před 6 lety

    I loved

  • @jediking12
    @jediking12 Před 8 lety +13

    Nice comparisons and commentary.

  • @kuikai100
    @kuikai100 Před 3 lety

    เยี่ยมมากคับ

  • @Tackz777
    @Tackz777 Před 3 lety +2

    Ralph McQuarrie & John Williams are as much Star Wars as Lucas. Disney doesn't exist.

  • @dbenz16
    @dbenz16 Před 3 lety

    George may have created Star Wars.
    But Ralph brought Star Wars to life.

  • @mortlow6688
    @mortlow6688 Před 2 lety

    5:09 I like the white Boba Fett....

  • @smittenthekitteninmittens2679

    genius

  • @Justabadplayer12
    @Justabadplayer12 Před 2 lety +1

    whos here because of the latest bad batch episode

  • @vgovger4373
    @vgovger4373 Před 5 lety +4

    The lighting is better in the paintings.

  • @JediKnight207
    @JediKnight207 Před 6 lety

    Am I the only one who prefer the special edition over the original?

  • @poppetrurazvan3900
    @poppetrurazvan3900 Před 3 lety

    😁

  • @skynet5305
    @skynet5305 Před 4 lety

    John Williams is the man and ralph mcquarrie.

  • @jensBendig
    @jensBendig Před 4 lety +2

    The paintings have a better light than the moving pictures, don't they?

  • @daveunbelievable6313
    @daveunbelievable6313 Před 2 lety

    if anything he's a co creator

  • @ReesesCupsable
    @ReesesCupsable Před 4 lety

    Ralph McQuarrie created the entire Star Wars Universe! One man!

  • @rageoftheredphoenix
    @rageoftheredphoenix Před 6 lety

    2015 the force awakens and not 2016

  • @neo7058
    @neo7058 Před 7 lety

    I uploaded a McQuarrie tribute today, look it up if you are interested.

  • @sandal_thong8631
    @sandal_thong8631 Před 2 lety

    I didn't really understand the importance of his art, seeing them on my Topps Empire Strikes Back cards. Why do I want someone's drawings of film scenes? Not realizing they came before the movie as conceptual art. Also, this featurette is much better than the 40-minute one talking about how great he was in life.

  • @humphrey_bear_MDC
    @humphrey_bear_MDC Před rokem

    Who is doing great star wars art now?

  • @MrJohnnysynth
    @MrJohnnysynth Před 8 lety

    In no way does it diminish the awesomeness of Ralph's work but the Empire and Jedi paintings were produced AFTER those respective films. That's why the "New Hope" paintings look primitive compared to their movie counterparts and the others so closely match.

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 8 lety +1

      +Johnny synth Actually, he started doing some paintings for the first draft of the Return of the Jedi script and was fired later. That's why we have the Jakku and Coruscant paintings. Some of these early paintings do not appear in this video since they aren't in any movie. Like this one: recklessishe.tumblr.com/post/106726257784/rotj-habitation-spheres-two-death-stars
      But yes, he did some paintings for books later and maybe I got some them wrong and put it in the video, but is due the lack of information. I was trying to avoid post movies painting, sketchs and matte pantings, but I probably missed some. ;)

    • @MrJohnnysynth
      @MrJohnnysynth Před 8 lety +1

      +Dimitri Bitu At least for JEDI, this caption tells the truth. thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/Magazines/starlog/75/075-035-035.jpg

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 8 lety

      +Johnny synth oh yeah, I got some of them wrong :/
      can you send me the link for the whole magazine? I want to check the others paintings that missed

    • @MrJohnnysynth
      @MrJohnnysynth Před 8 lety +1

      Dimitri Bitu thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/post/2013/05/21/Ralph-McQuarrie

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 8 lety +1

      Johnny synth thanks a lot bro! the website I send you earlier is very cool, check it out later ;)

  • @CondeCalifornia
    @CondeCalifornia Před 7 lety

    mmm wait a minute.. mcquarrie did not work in the prequel... let alone episode 7 (he died in 2012) so.... there
    but nice video nonetheless

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety +5

      but the artists used some of his unused paintings as direct inspirations to some designs
      clone wars, rebels and rogue one also have some ralph mcquarrie designs ;)

    • @CondeCalifornia
      @CondeCalifornia Před 7 lety

      that is not my understanding.. actually lucas tried to hire him for the prequel and he responded that he didnt feel he had eny more contribution in him.. some designer guy from ILM did it instead... I know that some unused work was uses in the animated series, but no the prequel... anyway, good job!

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 7 lety +5

      If you watch the making of the prequels you will watch Doug Chiang talking about using unused Ralph McQuarrie's paintings.
      You will also see in this docs czcams.com/video/HlcjTqxzWEk/video.html
      Or you can see in this very video where winged creatures in episode 2 came straight from unsused Cloud City art.
      Or you can look this site and see some unused drawings that made in the prequels and the new movies. I chose to put only paintings in the video but he did so much more. recklessishe.tumblr.com/ ;)

    • @CondeCalifornia
      @CondeCalifornia Před 7 lety

      ok thanks!

  • @Ladondorf
    @Ladondorf Před 8 lety +1

    I don't think Ralph worked on the prequels.

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 8 lety +3

      yeah, but a lot of his previous work was used in the prequels.
      also force awakens, star wars clone wars, rebels and rogue one ;)

    • @Ladondorf
      @Ladondorf Před 8 lety +1

      I knew they recycled his stuff for TFA but I had no idea about the prequels.

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 8 lety +4

      They recycled a lot of little drawings too but I chose to put only the paintings. ;)

  • @francisco4benites
    @francisco4benites Před 4 lety

    why did lucas mostly just flip the pics like it kinda sucks cuz the shots he drew are better angles and so when they are flipped they look off to the pictures before

  • @trillioncrowns
    @trillioncrowns Před 3 lety

    Wow wow and i thought George Lucas created star wars

  • @keanan1892
    @keanan1892 Před 2 lety

    9:23 "revenge of the sith" more like the christmas special

  • @Cinestudi0
    @Cinestudi0 Před 2 lety

    This dude got stolen of a couple of billions

  • @mranere
    @mranere Před 6 lety +1

    So Lucas just copied this guys art, literally, and took all the credit?

    • @dimitreze
      @dimitreze  Před 6 lety +7

      +Mykl R he hired him, pay him and had his name in the credits

    • @mranere
      @mranere Před 6 lety

      Oh, cook then.