Via Nme.com:

Two of our most anticipated pop culture releases pencilled in for this winter are Grimes’ new album and the new Star Wars movie, so you can imagine our delight when we were sent this: a love letter to the ground-breaking space-opera saga, penned by the 4AD star. Taken from the new issue of LOVE magazine, it’s a cracker. Check it out below and pick up LOVE here.

“My name is Grimes and I first came to love Star Wars before I could even walk. It’s one of my dad’s favourite film series and we had all the box sets and remastered versions when I was growing up. He made us watch all the making-of documentaries and flagged up the technological innovations, such as they way they smeared peanut butter on lenses to make the cars look like they were floating. We even had super-detailed books about how to draw all the machinery and stuff, which was a huge influence on me as an illustrator.

The originals are some of the only films that are as content-heavy as they are visually innovative. I’m hoping the new films keep to this standard, and the trailers I’ve seen so far suggest that this is the case. I’ve been studying film and colouring a lot lately, and I was completely blown away by their standard of technical achievement – the colour correction really stands out after years of homogenous, washed-out dystopian sci-fi trailers. It might simply be that CGI has reached an insanely realistic level, but I thought there were more costumes and prosthetics than I’ve seen recently. Chewie definitely seems like an actor in a suit, which I find less jarring than a CGI character – but maybe I’m just old [she’s 27 – Ed]. In the current climate, a costumed non-human character is almost seems vintage, which is definitely tripping me out because that was still the standard when I was a kid.

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