![]() He fleshed out the sketch using 3D software. “I remember chuckling while drawing, and I was like, ‘Boom, I think I got it,’” says Alzmann. ![]() For his third design, he sketched a Leyendecker-like baby face with big cheeks, tilted almond eyes, an upper lip hanging out over the bottom lip, and almost no chin. Leyendecker’s early to mid-20th century illustrations of cherubic babies. So Alzmann took inspiration from puppets in the 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal, and also from artist J.C. Chiang told Alzmann that Favreau wanted the alien tyke to look like an “’80s wrinkly little puppet,” but also cute, says Alzmann. That team includes show creator Jon Favreau, Lucasfilm Executive Creative Director Dave Filoni, and Lucasfilm Vice President and Executive Creative Director Doug Chiang, Alzmann’s boss.īack in 2017, several artists, including Alzmann, iterated designs for Grogu based on a sketch by Filoni. “With The Mandalorian, more than any project I've ever been a part of, I feel like the whole art department is an important part of the team,” he says. “This is absolutely a dream job,” says Alzmann, currently working on The Mandalorian’s third season, after working on the upcoming special event series Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as The Book of Boba Fett, a Mandalorian spinoff series scheduled to debut this December. Alzmann’s art for those beloved characters became their final designs. Round-bodied droid BB-8, who debuted in 2015’s The Force Awakens. Irresistibly cute and (green) apple-cheeked Baby Yoda, aka Grogu, in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. Mandalorian and The Child (Grogu) concept by Christian Alzmann, from season one of The Mandalorian, 2018.įor more than two decades, since graduating from ArtCenter, Alzmann has worked at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) at Disney’s Lucasfilm, creating concept art for television and films in the Star Wars universe. The Force has been with Alzmann ever since. He thew himself into art, and most of what he drew and painted, including his own paper action figures, was Star Wars related. ![]() Then, when he was 8, his TV director dad-who worked on The Waltons-died of cancer. “But after seeing the movie, I wanted to bring the poster home with me.” Alzmann went to school and finger painted Darth Vader from memory, impressing his fellow kindergartners. “I walked into the theater and looked up at the movie poster, and thought, as a 5-year-old, ‘This kind of looks stupid,” Alzmann says via Zoom, laughing, in his home office in San Rafael. The movie was George Lucas’s Star Wars, and Alzmann’s life changed forever. FROM BABY YODA TO BB-8, ALUMNUS CHRISTIAN ALZMANN’S DESIGNS FILL THE STAR WARS UNIVERSEĪ long time ago, in a galaxy not far from ArtCenter, Lucasfilm Concept Design Supervisor Christian Alzmann (BFA 98 Illustration) saw a film with his family on a rainy day in Los Angeles. ![]()
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