Star Wars Influences #2
Rebel Force Radio: Star Wars Podcast
Rebel Force Radio
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🗓️ 20 November 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Star Wars Influences featuring Star Wars concept artist Paul Bateman. This episode, we take a closer look at Paul's new feature for Star Wars Insider Magazine, "McQuarrie Revisited", we discuss the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, and Dark Horse comics mini-series The Star Wars, based on George Lucas's original rough draft. From there, Paul digs deep into the influence of comic book artwork on Star Wars, including the work of Valarian artist Jean-Claude Mezieres and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Rebel Force Radio presents Star Wars Influences. |
| 0:06.0 | You've taken your first step into a larger world. |
| 0:09.0 | Alright, and welcome back to Star Wars Influences. |
| 0:12.0 | Rebel Force Radio's monthly look at everything that inspired and contributed to the vision of Star Wars, |
| 0:20.0 | as we saw it on the Silver Screen, and beyond. |
| 0:23.0 | Joining me, as always, is Star Wars Concept Artist, |
| 0:27.0 | was extraordinary to quote Star Wars Insider magazine. |
| 0:32.0 | Paul Bateman from London. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:37.0 | I think that was talking about Ralph as the Star Wars Concept Artist extraordinaire. |
| 0:40.0 | I think he was the extraordinary one. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh yeah, okay. Well, it's for people. |
| 0:47.0 | So everyone understands what we're talking about here. |
| 0:50.0 | Star Wars Insider issue 145 Darth Vader on the front cover. |
| 0:54.0 | And if you open a page 40, you will find a really nice spread called Macquarie Revisited. |
| 1:02.0 | Star Wars Insider introduces a brand new feature, |
| 1:05.0 | which takes a fresh look at some of concept artist extraordinaire. |
| 1:09.0 | There it is. |
| 1:10.0 | Ralph Macquarie's unfinished Star Wars pieces. |
| 1:13.0 | Ralph's friend and colleague, art director and concept designer, Paul Bateman, |
| 1:18.0 | explains all and introduces the first work of art. |
| 1:23.0 | Let me tell you, Paul, this is a really great piece. |
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