The hand-painted background scenes of the original Star Wars trilogy — Jason Kottke

The hand-painted background scenes of the original Star Wars trilogy — Jason Kottke

Back in the 70s and 80s, before photorealistic computer graphics became commonplace, elaborate background sets in movies were hand-painted. Sploid’s Jesus Diaz took at look at the background art featured in the original Star Wars trilogy and the artists who painted them.

These are cool.