That's not just direction, but design.Īnd it's not just the legacy ships that stand out, even new creations benefit from this approach. The stakes are laid out in an instant, and you understand it all. We see a pilot we recognize, and then the scope of the war. What may have been a confusing soup in a film with weaker design becomes a clear, exciting battle. It takes a moment for your eye to pick out the Tie Fighters, which are a circle in the middle of two straight lines, and the X-Wings, which are cross-shaped. This pays off in many of the scenes from The Force Awakens.Ĭheck out this battle, with swarms of Resistance and First Order ships flying at each other. So many of the best-known ships and droids of Star Wars are made from basic shapes laid out in a way that can be recognized and understood from any angle. If it were designed for a movie today, it would be pointy shapes and busy, busy busy. The Death Star is a planet, but it’s a circle with a little circle inset with a line going through it. They’re designed after letters of the alphabet. It you look at the Star Wars films, I feel like a lot of the ships are simple.
"With Star Wars especially, good design means reducing everything to core iconic shapes," Christian Alzmann, ILM's senior art director said in an interview with CGSociety. Even the movie's action scenes are easy to understand, despite the many moving parts. Kylo Ren's lightsaber is instantly recognizable.
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