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Robert McNees Jun 13, 2023

Artist Ralph McQuarrie was born #OTD in 1929. He is probably best known as the primary concept artist for the Star Wars movies, but he also did work for Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and E.T., and he won an Academy Award for his work on Cocoon.

Image: Ralph McQuarrie

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Ted Spence

@mcnees most astonishing visual artist I’ve ever seen. Not only could he imagine something, but he could imagine it in a way that suggested a complex set of interdependencies that made it feel realistic. Truly the person that the word verisimilitude was invented for.