Colin Cantwell, stylist behind Famous “Star Wars” concepts, including the Death Star and X-wing, are dead on Saturday in age of 90.
Partner Sierra Dale told The Hollywood Reporter that the artist died in his home home in Colorado. a cause of death Not released.
Cantwell’s contributions to the upcoming Star Wars galaxy included up with concept art for death star space As well as the X-wing, Star Destroyer and TIE combat ships.
“I didn’t originally plan for The Death Star has a ditch but when I was working with Mold, I noticed that the halves had shrunk at the point where they were met Across the middle,” Cantwell wrote in 2014 “Ask Me Anything” Debate for reddit.
It would have taken a week of work just To fill, sand and refill this depression. So, to save me from work, I went to George (Lucas) and suggested making a trench. He liked the idea so much that it became one of Most famous moments in The movie!”
he is also a job on visual effects for The classic 1968 movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” 1979 “Buck Rogers in The Twenty-Fifth Century” and “War Games” in 1983.
Cantwell described his efforts on “2001: A Space Odyssey” also during this Reddit chat, writing It ‘worked closely with (director) Stanley Kubrick and convince him not to do it start The movie with Conference table discussion for 20 minutes.”
before entering movieIndustry, I worked Cantwell with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tell Reddit that a file role with NASA saw it “report public on The first without pilot space flights. “
