Ralph Angus McQuarrie was an American conceptual designer and illustrator, who worked on the concept and design for the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award.
Several of his unused designs from the original trilogy were utilized for the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, including the characters Garazeb Orrelios and Chopper, based on his original designs for Chewbacca and R2-D2, respectively.
McQuarrie died at the age of 82 on March 3, 2012, in his Berkeley, California home, from complications of Parkinson's disease.
Artwork[]
TIE Fighter and X-Wing concept
Early Millennium Falcon concept
Mos Eisley Spaceport concept
Death Star II core concept
Echo Base concept
Death Star trench run concept
Battle of Hoth concept
Snowspeeder and AT-AT concept
Darth Vader VS Luke Skywalker concept
Early concept of the Stormtroopers
Death Star concept
Super Star Destroyer command bridge concept
Emperor Palpatine's throne room concept
Cloud City control room concept
Imperial Star Destroyer command bridge concept
B-Wing fighter concept
A-Wing fighter concept
Leia Organa's costume concept
Dagobah concept
Palpatine concept
Sandcrawler concept
Cloud City dining room concept
Carbon Freezing Chamber concept
Cloud City shaft concept
Yoda's hut concept
Han Solo concept
Early concept artwork of Boba Fett
Tusken Raiders concept art by Ralph McQuarrie
