officially introduce a special Star Wars-themed Boeing 737-800 aircraft into service featuring a Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker livery and onboard experience. The design is like nothing you’ve ever seen before on a plane. A blanket of stars covers the entire aircraft, providing the backdrop for X-wing and TIE fighter spacecraft, which were redesigned for the new film. Doug Chiang, Vice President and Executive Creative Director for Lucasfilm, worked with his in-house designers to dream up the concept and was instrumental in the execution.
Working with this medium for the first time, Chiang looked for interesting ways to make the design pop. “We leveraged the curve of the fuselage to give the impression of three-dimensionality,” he says. By placing the main X-wing and TIE fighter on the broadest area of the aircraft, it gave the impression that the spaceships were spatially coming out toward the viewer. Two smaller spaceships were placed on the upper and lower edges of the fuselage to reinforce this perspective. The resulting illusion is one of false dimension, like a classical trompe l’oeil painting where the imagery seems to jump out of the canvas.
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