The advance copies look fantastic! I am so happy how the book turned out. Each theatrical Star Wars film gets at least 2 mazes, plus one Mandalorian and Black Spire Outpost on the inside cover.
This detail is from the Naboo maze, based fairly closely on the capital city.
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Happy Star Wars Day!
Well, was yesterday and I posted this Hoth maze from the book all over my social media.
Below is the sketch for the maze. You can see it is very similar! Phil Szostak, content and asset specialist at Lucasfilm, asked me to rotate the Millennium Falcon and add additional snowspeeders.
The yellow lines are the gutter. Though the book can open flat and my publisher is has excellent precision, I wanted to be sure there were no bridges or vertical paths in this area.
All the mazes in the book had to be canon or canon adjacent. I made adjustments to create a fun maze in my style, but it was important to feel like the recognizable Star Wars from the films.
I used tons of research! Screen grabs from the film, 3d model references, images from the Battlefront video game, Wookieepedia, and the DK Star Wars Locations books. The Hans Jenssen cross-section of Echo Base is amazing! His illustration includes much more than I needed and a lot of information not in the film. It was especially helpful because relationships between the scenes is never shown in the movie. Jenssen’s illustration is the best, canon-approved overview I found.
These people are drawn 600dpi, so are very small on the page! They look jagged because soft, anti-alias lines are not so friendly for print. Also much easier to work with my preferred flat colors
While doing research, I found this cool picture of director Irvin Kershner on a tauntaun