Star Wars Matte Paintings by Ralph McQuarrie 

I'm a digital matte painter, to me this is a lot more hardcore than what we're doing now. No undo button, no colour sampling, no photobashing. Couple of months in a basement in front of a piece of glass. Respect to the magic and the magicians.

Impressive. Most impressive.

Incredibe. They look so realistic.

Mind boggling sometimes. Genuinely thought some of these were the physical sets.

McQuairre(?) was extremely talented as was everyone who worked on the Star Wars trilogy! The work they did was ahead of its time!