Those designers who go through mythical Hollywood movies, many times they go unnoticed or, at the time, we do not realize the importance of drawing those science fiction films that have managed to imagine those interstellar trips, future missions to Mars or that probes can be sent to Europa, to study those closely. geysers that expel water hundreds of kilometers high.
Colin Cantwell is one of them, and if I say he was the designer of the Death Star, X-wing, Tie Fighter, or the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, surely now your name and surname will sound different when you read it again at the beginning of this post. And not only has he stayed there, but he collaborated in a 2001 Space Odyssey, where he worked closely with the great Stanley Kubrick and convinced him not to start the film with a discussion at a conference table.
Colin Cantwell today has 84 years and in those years he has managed to work together with NASA to inform the public of the first space flights, inventor of the first real color monitor for Hewlett Packard and specialist in the design of the most iconic Star Wars ships.
Among them are the X-wing, Tie Fighter, the Imperial-class Star Destroyer or the Rebel cruisers. Some ships that are part of pop culture and that have served as a source of inspiration for many others. Hence, he worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Un inventor, author and maxi-nerd, as he calls himself, who has a great passion for quantum physics and is convinced that sooner than we think, we will be exploring the ends of the universe, just as those designed ships could do; for now in our imagination and those Star Wars movies.
We leave you with some entries related to Star Wars how is it about the ships illustrated in great detail, the interesting concept art of Star Wars y this post remembering the illustrator of his mythical posters.