The creator behind several iconic Star Wars ships also worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey and assisted in broadcasting the 1969 moon landing
Colin Cantwell, the man who designed the spacecraft in theSierra Dall, Cantwell’s partner of more than two decades, confirmedBorn in San Francisco in 1932, Cantwell attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he got a degree in animation. He also attended Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture.
Cantwell’s love for both architecture and space combined when he began to work on Hollywood films, including Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Cantwell and Kubrick became friends during filming, with Cantwell regularly visiting Kubrick to discuss how the film was going “over turkey sandwiches” at midnight.
. It was Cantwell who created the dramatic space opening that followed the films’s iconic “dawn of man” beginning.George Lucas “I didn’t originally plan for the Death Star to have a trench, but when I was working with the mould, I noticed the two halves had shrunk at the point where they met across the middle,” he told Reddit. “It would have taken a week of work just to fill and sand and re-fill this depression. So, to save me the labor, I went to George and suggested a trench.
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