My perspective on how the cave should be shot hadn’t changed from my early storyboards.

I shot second unit on every single episode in Season 1. I ended up shooting the scene where he goes down to the cave. “ At one point there was a big old tree right above the entrance to the mudhorn cave. The next image showcases a different design of the mudhorn cave, and the main difference is the presence of a big, old tree above its entrance.Ĭreator Dave Filoni shared a fascinating story of how the mudhorn cave sequence came to be: I would still love to see some of the layering, the guerrilla fighter idea.”įrom Brian Matyas, Abrams Books/Lucasfilm

“I might try and reintroduce these decommissioned stormtrooper designs in some way for Season 2. Next on the list is another early design of Mando's ship, and it somehow resembles the finished version of the Razor Crest. Is this the Slave I’s brother vehicle? Is this another Mandalorian vehicle? But, by then, I knew I couldn’t do those big weird shapes because that’s not very A-10.' It’s got to look at least as distinctive and odd as the Slave I. It ends up looking like a toy if you’re not careful. It’s so conventional: wings, fuselage, and engine. And that’s the difficult thing about using the A-10. The Warthog almost looks like a Star Wars vehicle, if you painted the right color, because it doesn’t have anything compound about it. I got to sit in the cockpit and everything. When I was a kid, I would steer the family vacation to the Tucson air show, the main A-10 pilot training base. “Jon ’s design brief was the A-10 Thunderbolt ‘Warthog,’ which I know extremely well. Instead, visual artist Ryan Church bared that the original plan was to feature theĪs the main ship of Mando, but it was ultimately replaced due to the The next image reveals that the Razor Crest was not the initial ship of Mando. There’s something about gold and silver together, even with jewelry, that doesn’t quite work for me.'įrom Brian Matyas and Doug Chiang, Abrams Books/Lucasfilm “I was still changing up some of the armor, like the chest pieces being more classic Mandalorian and then playing with a different color for the T-visor, which I’m actually glad they didn’t go with. The second image shows another draft of Mando's armor, and Matyas mentioned that he will still beĪt that specific point during pre-production: So, I wanted to push it: ‘Can this metal be a dull brass matte sort of sheen? Something a little bit darker?'įrom Brian Matyas, Abrams Books/Lucasfilm “I played within the armor color spectrum because, at least at this point, Jango Fett is the only canonical live-action example of unpainted beskar steel.

Slave 1 concept art