UPDATE! Pic of the Day: The Creatures from Star Wars: The Force Awakens! Interview with Neal Scanlan.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens chief of creature and droid effects Neal Scanlan poses with the creatures from the movie.
Lots of familiar faces including Rey’s head!?! đ
I can’t help but think of this image from the Original Trilogy:
Thanks to StarWarsJunk for spotting the image.
UPDATE!
You can check BBC’s Brenda Emmanus interview with Neal Scanlan HERE.
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best part about that pic is how many new creatures there are. love that they are expanding the universe more, i mean its a huge galaxy after all!
why is there a dummy head of Daisy Ridley in that pic ?
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Maybe a reedition of that scene at the Dagobah cave?
Rey fights Kylo and sees her face under his mask?
I’m hoping not, but I see no other usage for a severed head of Rey.
I want one but not saying why
I can’t wait to see that creepy alien in the blue shirt in the center of the picture.
Lol yes.
Rey head is creepy as fuck
They did promise plenty of surprises. Severing Rey’s head would certainly qualify.
Noice.
Is that a Lasat (Zeb’s species) to the right of Ackbar?!
I was gonna say it looks a lot like them.
Zeb is the last of his species
or almost the last…
that’s a Hassk I believe
Very funny.
what’s funny?
Could be. It looks like an old one though so maybe…? Naaahhhh
That actually appears to be based on, if not exactly like, one of Ralph McQuarrie’s original designs for Chewbacca…which is easily the inspiration for Zeb.
I never tire of seeing these old and unused concepts from McQuarrie and Lucas pop up in The Clone Wars, Rebels, and now a few instances in TFA.
i do know sometimes they use dummy’s of actors in scenes where another actor needs to carry this actors ( so was Sigourney Weaver mostly walking around with a Newt dummy in Aliens) Maybe its for the scene when Kylo Ren abducts Rey ?
Hayden carried a dummy of Ewan at the during the ship escape scene at the beginning of ROTS.
Yeah, and ewan carried a dummy called hayden for the rest of the movie!!!
Oh snap…
Poor 3PO always gets left out.
“How typical”
I spy Ackbar…
Is that Momaw Nadon on Neal Scalan’s right side!?!?
No. It’s a little hard to tell because it’s a profile shot, but it’s a new creature from Maz Kanata’s castle. He’s on the left side of the picture below.
Look at R2 then move your eyes along to left of pic. looks like Rey’s face!
very back next to chewbacca…is that plageuis…i mean snoke đ
Anyone notice the Maz model between the big sitting guy’s legs (the one Neal is beside)?
Anyone else think Maz’s goggles look like Anakin’s from the pod race? She has his pod race flag… Why not the goggles?
Maybe light side users worship relics of Anakin Skywalker like his goggles and lightsaber while dark side users worship relics of Vader (melted helmet).
Yes she seems more blusih though. Perhaps the concepts aren’t wrong perhaps she changes color.
My favorite is the large hammer-head dude to the left-center bent over Neal, rocking a tattered robe.
In front of the big creature in the middle’s left leg (our right), there seems to be yoda species bust
I found out on closer inspection he has a blie beard and in the vanity fair
My only, very minor complaint about the creature shot is that aside from Ackbar ad Nien Nunb, we don’t see returning background aliens. I would have liked a background alien or two from the PT or OT for fluidity purposes.
Still, nice to see real puppets nonetheless.
I was waiting for a comment like yours, but if it was all rehashed aliens someone would have commented why don’t we have any new ones, and would have claimed just fanservice of the OT. I guess it depends on which planets we go to and the moment in time that we are there.
Like I said, they just can’t win. In every SW movie there are aliens we didn’t see in some of the other movies.
It could be more than two without getting anywhere near ‘all’.
Not talking about rehashed. I want mostly new ones as much of the rest feels derivative. But I was just hoping for one or two familiar background ones just for the sake of feeling continuity. At the moment, I’m beginning to feel that TFA happens in a different saga from the prequels. One of the few constants between the PT and OT were some of the familiar background aliens.
Could do with a few jawas. I love those little bastards!!!
These aren’t ALL the creatures they made, so there’s still a chance of seeing some oldies. 7 days! đ
Same, they could use huge variety of already existing aliens and add just few new ones in new Trilogy, I’ve don’t like this kind of ignorance, same with Prequels complete absence!…
The furry black monster looks like the aliens from Attack The Block
The furry black monster looks like the aliens from Attack The Block.
Maz drawing in back and also a sculpt of her with bluer skin under the Fat type Bossk guys legs..also looks like a Yoda creatures head. Wonder if there’s half a Snoke or concept art of him in here…hope not the Yoda species one.
Saw on the closeup the one I thought was a Yoda species is in the vanity fair pic too….has the blue beard so I was wrong.
Looks like Chewie lost his shoes (lower left in front). đ
I’m convinced now with the Rey head that Greg Nicotero is somehow involved with this film.
Why?
Upon re looking at the photo too…I notice that woman has long hair not pulled back like Rey and it appears to be on the same set of shoulders as the gorilla head. Two headed creature maybe?
I LOVE this photo and could look at all these fantastic creatures for hours.
I think It’s save to say STAR WARS is back with a bang!
There’s a lasat like Zeb from Rebels đ since the show started I was wondering how would that old McQuarrie design translate to reality. Really like it.
It’s actually a new creature to Star Wars called a Hassk. The species was first introduced in the Crimson Corsair short story I think. There is a TFA action figure for a Hassk Thug (below). You can tell this is the same species as the head in the photo above.
They’re ugly. Large hair gremlins.
I like.
My favorite TFA alien so far.
This image was featured in a brief but interesting BBC interview with Neal Scanlan, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35066263
Thankyou for that link..lovely interview
that 1 photo (top) looks more star wars than the combined run time of the PT
Oh snap.
Nope.
PT has great looking creatures.
These are just meh..
i concur. these new creatures feel too much Del Toro-esque to me.. they’d fit Hellboy, but SW? i dunno..
Yes, it has great looking animated cartoo–I mean, um, creatures.
Possible tie-in with the Star Wars Uprising Game. The creature in the bottom left sitting on the floor was just introduced to the game with this weeks update. He’s referred to as a “Data Broker” and you trade items to him for info and gear.
he looks like the same species as Ello Asty.
http://s2.n4g.com/news/1834819_0.jpg
Data Broker is in the middle
These creatures are kinda boring looking. They all the same skin tone. The OT had better looking ones. Rodians and duros are the coolest
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Curious to see what they do for the next too and if they do any alien scenes for the spinoffs.
Seeing that Rey head, I’m wondering how it’s going to be used. Perhaps Rey’s face could be damaged while fighting Kylo Ren… hmmmm. Would be a shame though, she’s flawless.