Who built/sculpted the Falcon?

[ALongTimeAgo]

Sorry for this stupid question, but I cannot find my copy of Rinzler's "Making of ANH" and I need to know who built or sculpted the Falcon.

I am mostly interested in who sculpted the studio Falcon and not the full size one...unless they are the same person. I think it was Dykstra, but I am not sure.

Thanks!

 

[ChaseKiefer]

multiple people were involved with the making of the falcon.

The only person I know of is Lorne Peterson. He did the entire back section of detail.

 

[ALongTimeAgo]

multiple people were involved with the making of the falcon.

The only person I know of is Lorne Peterson. He did the entire back section of detail.

Who supervised the making of the Falcon? Was is Dykstra?

 

[dellamorte]

Actually I think Joe Johnston did a lot of work on it too. I'm sure all those model shop guys had a hand in it.

Who supervised the making of the Falcon? Was is Dykstra?

 

[GKvfx]

While most of the smaller models had an individual or a couple of individuals working on them, the Falcon was a last minute addition/change and required almost the entire model shop to work on the one ship. Joe Johnston's role as VFX Art Director would be to make sure all the various styles of the model makers worked in unison to present what needed to be a singular design.

(The model shop was divvied up into various disciplines - engineering, electronics, structure, detail, and painting. Joe did a lot of the final painting, Dave Jones did a lot of the fine detail work and some of the painting, Steve Gawley did a lot of drawings, Grant McCune was primarily the structures guy, etc. There was a lot of crossover and other guys pitched in where needed and all worked on some of the big stuff like the trench and Falcon. Dykstra was the overall VFX Supervisor for the show.)

Gene