Ralph McQuarrie's storyboard paintings for the Star Wars Trilogy

via Drawn! and Flickr:

Details: Stormtroopers with lightsabers, and shields?


Chewie?

Proto B-wings attacking the proto Death Star.


Lucas went to Norway to shoot the scenes based on Hoth. He should have waitied for sunlight like this!

'Stand by, Ion control.. Fire!'
The first transport is away!


Just one more pass!