Holy crap.

While working today, I’ve been peripherally watching a series of DVDs hosted by Iain McCaig, who did some outstanding design work on the Star Wars prequels (basically, anything you might have liked about those movies) and they’ve been really inspirational.

It’s strictly from the perspective of storytelling, so all of the design work he walks you through (which is literally just recorded, practically unedited footage of Iain drawing or painting) is given with the objective of telling a good story and designing your characters and environments to serve that story, first and foremost.

Man, I’ve almost stopped the DVD several times to write down quotes for the blog, but I think I’m just going to absorb it all first.

Apparently having the name McCaig means you kick ass as an illustrator.