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>\nIt’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
I finally had a moment yesterday to create a small update for Project 14. Today’s Project 14 item is courtesy of a Return of the Jedi portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie. I vaguely remember buying this at a bookstore named B. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-14"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}