I finally had a moment yesterday to create a small update for Project 14.<\/p>\n
Today’s Project 14 item is courtesy of a Return of the Jedi portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie.<\/p>\n
I vaguely remember buying this at a bookstore named B. Dalton in a Dallas mall back when the movie Return of the Jedi<\/a> first came out in 1983. B. Dalton is long gone, absorbed by Barnes and Noble<\/a> quite some time ago. No caption sheet was in the portfolio and print number 18 was missing. But for two bucks, this was pure gold for a former Star Wars fan. I never tried to take the B. Dalton clearance sticker off the cover, and the prints never left the tattered portfolio except on rare occasions. A short time later, I put things like this in storage, and never pulled them out until now. What you see is exactly how it was 26 years ago.<\/p>\n It’s been 26 years since Return of the Jedi came out? Geeeeez.<\/p>\n Anyhow, if you follow the prints by number, it tells the whole story of the movie like a very high end storyboard would. The prints are good quality, and all of them are about 11 x 17 in size. I scanned them at 5088 \u00d7 3296 but scaled them down for posting to Flickr. The art itself is very, very impressive. Ralph McQuarrie gives these images a vibrancy even a live film cell lacks. Lucas was very lucky to have all of this as a reference.<\/p>\n Right now I’m putting this portfolio aside for Ebay. When I have enough things from Project 14, I’ll have a massive sale and see what comes of it.<\/p>\n Below is a slideshow of the prints. Click to play, or double click on an image to enlarge it.<\/p>\n