The Overlooked Visual Design of The Phantom Menace
- Andy McIlvain
- 4 days ago
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Updated: 3 days ago
Video from Midnight Spectacle
The Overlooked Visual Design of The Phantom Menace
"Phantom Menace: A Visual Deep-Dive into Star Wars’ Most Colorful Movie
Why does Episode I look so unlike every other Star Wars? George Lucas traded the Original Trilogy’s greys for bold color, Art Nouveau Naboo, lavish costume work, and wildly original creature/vehicle design. This video essay breaks down the production art, interviews, and concept work (Doug Chiang, Iain McCaig, Terryl Whitlatch) to explain how Naboo’s chrome N-1 starfighters, Otoh Gunga’s glowing city, Amidala’s runway-level wardrobes, the pod-racers, and Darth Maul’s mythic iconography were conceived, and why those choices still matter for Star Wars’ visual language." from the video introduction
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