Artist Nathan Stromberg has been commissioned to create an art installation that on a wall near the main entrance of Lucasfilms headquarters at LDAC within the Presidio in San Francisco, and here Lucasfilm take a closer look at the path Stromberg took to creating this impressive 5′ x 7′ collage of Artoo and Threepio.
Stromberg’s Lucasfilm commission uses a mix of different materials, including Star Wars posters, magazines, and book illustrations (a number of which came from another of Stromberg’s attic finds: a box containing his childhood books and PrestoMagic sets). “The Lucasfilm team was very open in terms of what I’d like to do,” he says. “I knew that I wanted an original trilogy version of something, since I’d had those early books, and given my age, it has the most meaning to me. Lucasfilm then suggested some ideas. It seemed like doing a life-size R2-D2 and C-3PO was the way to go.” The demanding scale would result in Stromberg’s biggest collage to date, standing nearly five feet wide and seven feet tall.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart.
He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host (the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015), the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
Artist Nathan Stromberg has been commissioned to create an art installation that on a wall near the main entrance of Lucasfilms headquarters at LDAC within the Presidio in San Francisco, and here Lucasfilm take a closer look at the path Stromberg took to creating this impressive 5′ x 7′ collage of Artoo and Threepio.
Stromberg’s Lucasfilm commission uses a mix of different materials, including Star Wars posters, magazines, and book illustrations (a number of which came from another of Stromberg’s attic finds: a box containing his childhood books and PrestoMagic sets). “The Lucasfilm team was very open in terms of what I’d like to do,” he says. “I knew that I wanted an original trilogy version of something, since I’d had those early books, and given my age, it has the most meaning to me. Lucasfilm then suggested some ideas. It seemed like doing a life-size R2-D2 and C-3PO was the way to go.” The demanding scale would result in Stromberg’s biggest collage to date, standing nearly five feet wide and seven feet tall.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart.
He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host (the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015), the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Stromberg’s Lucasfilm commission uses a mix of different materials, including Star Wars posters, magazines, and book illustrations (a number of which came from another of Stromberg’s attic finds: a box containing his childhood books and PrestoMagic sets). “The Lucasfilm team was very open in terms of what I’d like to do,” he says. “I knew that I wanted an original trilogy version of something, since I’d had those early books, and given my age, it has the most meaning to me. Lucasfilm then suggested some ideas. It seemed like doing a life-size R2-D2 and C-3PO was the way to go.” The demanding scale would result in Stromberg’s biggest collage to date, standing nearly five feet wide and seven feet tall.
