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

@mcnees I met him once in Berkeley when I worked at a bank there. Really nice guy that didn’t seem worried when I completely geeked out at him.