This Big Heads was an interview with Glyn Dillon. I realised I was familiar with his work as some of it had actually leaked beofre the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was odd now listening to this artist who had helped to redesign the Storm Troopers for the new film in the franchise and indeed create the chracter Kylo Ren.
As my dissertation centred around the marketting and merchandising of Star Wars, I was incredibly interested to hear Glyn talk about the development process to create characters.
His career was peculiar, and it seemed like a good example of connections leading to employment.
Glyn mentioned that the design of Kylo Ren was a difficult task, as they were pushing for something unique, with a strong silhouette. Inspiration came from old concept art from the unreleased and now infamous Jodorowsky's Dune.
The development for the unrealsed Dune was incredible important to post 70s science fiction as many of the artists and designers who worked on the project ended up working on classics suchs as Alien, Star Wars and Terminator.
Glyn's talk was really interesting, and it made me realise that perhaps it is possible to work in concept art industry without a expert understanding of 3D modellingm, or even drawing extremly realistically. Glyn was slected for the role because of his strong character work, and an ability to work quickly.
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