Droids Layout Backgrounds


Here is a rough animation pose from the first show called "The White Witch" which was a racing speeder owned by Thall.

In this scene, R2 is hanging upside down from a magnetic platform. The gizmo sticking out is a welding torch. He's working on the speeder in Thall's garage.

In order to speed up production, the layout artists were divided into two categories: Senior Layout Artist and Assistant Layout Artist. The Senior artist was the one with more experience or drawing ability as far as roughing out the scenes. The Assistant was the artist better at the clean up of the drawings.

Each Senior artist had an Assistant. The Senior artist would draw the layouts at 6 field size in rough and then give them to the Assistant, who would enlarge the drawings and clean them up at their full size.

This was a diagonal pan background shot showing the speeders entering the tubes at the beginning of the race. The pan started on the right side and ended at the left. The drawing here the rough sketch that I did which was then cleaned up by my assistant. (You can still see all the perspective lines that I drew in to help me with the ellipses. This layout is labeled D-3-268.


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Here are two rough layouts from the show called "A Race To The Finish".

The top layout was the start line for the racers. It was a pan background which started on the left side and ended a the right.

The bottom layout was one of the viewing rooms where 3PO and watched the race.