This is the second video in this series, now taking a look at The Phantom Menace! ⏱Chapters 0:05 - The Trade Federation 1:16 - Naboo 02:47 - Tatooine 04:51 - Coruscant 05:59 - The Battle of Naboo #starwars #thephantommenace #conceptart
I think I had never seen the early designs for the Neimoidians. They basically looked like the living-creature version of the battle droids. It's quite interesting to see that the very specific and iconic design of the battle droids was originally meant to be reflect the appeance of their creators, which I guess is a very logical thing to do. Funny how Neimoidians ended up looking almost like that alien from the cantina scene in ANH... I actually thought it was the same species for the longest time until one day I found out it's a different species called Duro. I also kind of see this early Neimoidian design being later repurposed, with some modifications, for the Geonosians.
Imagine being able to see these long before the movie came out, only able to fantasise about what the resulting movie would be like. It was great being a child when TPM came out. It was a really exciting time and that excitement lingered for long time and penetrated deeply.
Any hate for episode 1-3 is so undeserved. Especially if you consider anything else than Andor from Disney as Star Wars. I don't consider any Disney Production as Star Wars, like I don't consider any Lord of the Rings Productions of Amazon as such. The designs are so good and epic. Disney could never do this, and even if they could, they would dump them into the wastepaper pucket. The special effects are still so good! Especially of episode 1 - but 2 and 3 are still very well made. Only some clonetrooper shots miss global illumination and look very computer game like. Probably they had to rush this and had too many companies and one was not up to quality... but overal episode 1-3 still look very good today! I clearly prefer the aesthetics over Avatar, where everything looks very CG. I love the good mix with practical effects. Like in Lord of the rings. Star Wars 1-3 and Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the must stunning movies of my childhood. Maybe Matrix 1, too.
The jedi looking like they are wearing precursors to Lukes RotJ robes makes way more sense than the robes we got. Jedi look way more "jedi knight" in all black. Battle droids that look like proto storm troopers... The nemodian looking droids are wild too. Lucas desperately needed real challenging collaborators and not producer/yes man Rick McCallum....
One of the concept designs for Darth Maul looks like a nightsister. And the concept design of Nute Gunray looks similar to the Geonosians from Attack of the Clones.
Exactly. Obi wan wore those clothes in the OT because he was living on tatooine. They're desert clothes not jedi clothes. George lucas misunderstood the design.
@sebastienr7852 lucas misunderstood scenes in the OT like greedo shooting at the same time as Han, the addition of the Jabba scene but jedi do look cool with those robes. Can't imagine them dressing any other way except for those characters that don't. Luke literally dresses the same way just in all black in ROTJ. He's a jedi.
@@sebastienr7852 Yeah, it would been an excellent contrast from Obi wan wearing this and maybe wearing full Jedi armour late in the clone wars(A star wars version of Samurai armour, maybe even sorta close to Vaders armour) to him wearing hermit clothes. You'd be wondering who "Ben kenobi" was, and be even more suprised at the reveal. Perfect visual representation of Kenobi long and varied life
I would take any of the concept battle droid versions than the end result. They look like if you just give them the slightest push they'll just crumble. Not very intimidating
But they also have a lifeless skeletal look to them that I think works (and matched the original niemodian, later the Geonosian, concept art). Which also makes them bug-like, fitting as they infest the flourishing Naboo.
That's the point, though? They're not meant to be intimidating; they were never meant to be intimidating. Just like how the Neimoidians were never meant to be intimidating. It was the Sith we were supposed to be scared of. Everyone else were mere pawns.