Via Moviepilot.com:
Even several months after the box office destroying release of Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens we’re still finding out bits and pieces about the film, from possible deleted scenes featured on the upcoming April 5 DVD release to snippets looking forward to Star Wars: Episode VIII.
Industrial Light & Magic, the George Lucas founded visual effects company who have been the powerhouse behind the Star Wars films, recently released a bunch of new concept art images from The Force Awakens off the back of the visual book, The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The collection of gorgeous images encompasses bits and pieces spanning the entirety of the film, from an alternate look at Luke (Skywalker) to a captured figure (an early take on Poe Dameron perhaps?) in what appears to be Jedi robes in the vein of Obi-Wan.
Rick Carter, co-production designer, Star Wars: The Force Awakens commented on the creation process, explaining that the early designs were intended to reflect the storytelling concepts rather than function as explict representations of what the final design would be:
“Each artist began to explore his individual response, and collectively, we began to answer, with our words and art. Out of our brainstorming sessions emerged visual imagery of where we might want to go and what it would look like when we got there. We were not merely illustrating scenes that already existed: we were initiating storytelling concepts through the visual images themselves.”
Whilst we do get to see various figures from The Force Awakens in the concept art there’s one who stands above and beyond (and not just cause he’s hella tall) we speak of course of Kylo Ren (portrayed in the film by Adam Driver).
The early concept art shows us an interesting take on the former Ben Solo, one which more closely alines his character conceptually with that of his grandfather – Darth Vader.
Check out the early helmet designs which blend elements of Vader with those of Darth Revan.
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