I found an old art book while I was looking in my shelves for some ideas for my daily art. It’s a Japanese collection of Ralph McQuarrie’s concept for Star Wars.

Towards the end of the book, there’s this amazing painting, simple and striking, amongs ideas for Coruscant and the Emperor’s Throne Room.

Flattened out, but with glare, here’s that incredible, minimal vision.

I built a really simple model in Blender, which took a few hours. I used a crude posed human model that my friend Dave Tyner made for me, and just rotated and scaled three different ways.

I used OmniVerse to mock this up - the orange glow all comes from path-traced fog. The sky is just a dome light, stopped down.

This only took about six hours, end to end, which is sorta amazing. After framing the main image, it was super fun to try different angles.

Zoomed out, it’s pretty funny - almost 2001-ish.

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