Via Independent.co.uk:

Legendary visual effects company ILM has released a whole host of pre-preproduction images for the film

Industrial Light & Magic, or ILM, has revealed a huge amount of concept art created for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Posted on their official site, the pieces reveal points from across the film’s development; from recognisable renditions of Kylo Ren and the desert planet of Jakku, to early pieces which reveal how radically different the film so easily could have been.

“Each artist began to explore his individual response, and collectively, we began to answer, with our words and art,” explains co-production designer Rick Carter. “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.”

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