Droids Layout Backgrounds



This is a view from inside the racing tube at the same point on the track as the previous layout. I think there were a couple of speeders that zipped through the scene and away from the camera.

This is from scene D-3-277.
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.


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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.