For a time we were going to do big cut-away renderings of the actuator system itself in the T-65 complete with servos, hinges, etc. We really draw from all of Star Wars history including the scenes we grew up with to the newest movies and cartoons.Ĭhris Reiff: We talked for a while about how to handle the S-foils illustration in the books. Because Lucasfilm considers the revised version “canon,” I didn’t know whether they’d allow Haynes to use the earlier still frames, but I’m glad that they did, simply because the original version more clearly illustrates the X-wing’s S-foils in operation.Ĭhris Trevas: It was important to us to include classic Star Wars model photos alongside newer digital imagery in page layouts.
At George Lucas’s instruction, Industrial Light & Magic revised the special effects for this scene in Star Wars: Special Edition, and made the X-wings break out of formation while their wings unfolded.
Ryder Windham: To illustrate how an X-wing’s Strike foils, or S-foils, unfold, I selected two sequential still frames from the original theatrical version of Star Wars .
