Summary
Lorne Peterson describes model making for the Star Wars films through thirty years of work. The account explains how scenes and models were made, using ordinary materials alongside newer technical tools. Photographs from the Lucasfilm archive accompany the production stories. Peterson worked on the original ILM team and later supervised models. Lucas contributes a preface, Rick McCallum a foreword and Phil Tippett an afterword.
Why read it Our view
Use the model-shop accounts to study how a team turns drawings into objects that work on camera. The examples of reused parts and mixed techniques are relevant to founders making prototypes under practical constraints.
Written about
- George LucasCompany founder; preface contributorPeterson’s account of the model shop at Lucas’s company, with a Lucas preface. The normal 2006 hardcover is cataloged; the expensive limited set is not another work.Source