This is a continuation of my original blog for the Star Wars event I visited on March 5th 2018 at the Museum of Fine Art in St. Petersburg FL.
ALEX TAYOULARIS
Droids Concept Storyboard
1975
Graphite pencil and ink on tracing paper
DROID DESIGN
[painted onto the wall]
Combining concept with function challenged the creative team when it came to droid costumes. For C-3PO, artists started with a plaster cast of the actor's body, experimented with clay details to make him look more like a robot, and then finalized the costume. A remote-controlled R2-D2 glided on wheels, while an actor operated another model from the inside-useful for when R2 had to "scuffle," not roll. Filmmakers for the new trilogy built on earlier work, developing droids like BB-8 with new technology.
R2-D2 Parts
1977
Metal, plastic, and mixed media
The Star Wars creative team incorporated several bits and pieces- many of them found objects- into R2-D2's costume. Glass bulbs became photoreceptors, vents became signalers, and metal scraps became data probes. George Lucas wanted the blue are that folded over the front to resemble "a knife and fork."
"I can't exaggerate how bad [wearing][ the costume was. It was like being stuck in a stethoscope-every noise as I walked along wound up in my ears." -ANTHONY DANIELS, ACTOR
"There had to be some sort of indication of life going on behind the eyes."
-NORMAN REYNOLDS, ART DIRECTOR
"To Facilitate bending over, [C-3PO] would have connecting wires between the solid components."
-NORMAN REYNOLDS, ART DIRECTOR
"The knees were always trouble. I used to lubricate them with WD-40 to get them to move."
-BRIAN ARCHER, ART DEPARTMENT
Keep a look out I will be posting more in this series soon!
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