Tag: worldbuilding

kyraneko:

bunjywunjy:

isnerdy:

memcjo:

wearethesparkk:

cassandor:

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

Earth is effing amazing!

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

Also if you don’t want people in the Age of the Internet to point to your Cool Alien Landscape and announce exactly where on Earth it came from, you can also use computers and put some of these together.

Like, say you’re reworking Kamino, you can take that pink lake up there, Lake Retba, and put the Tepui, Venezuela, cloud island in the middle of it. Boom, instant superb alien landscape.

Or you can take the

Tsingy du Bemaraha sharp rocks from Madagascar and adjust things a little so now all those rocks are buildings, and then replace the trees with buildings made from the Tianzi Mountains

rock formations just above it in the post, to be the older buildings that haven’t yet been built over into the newer and more modern skyscrapers: Hello, Coruscant.

The cave system can be the hollowed-out inside of an asteroid, covered by a force field, and behind that force field you can put the amazing skyscape behind the Bolivia Salt Flats, or the rings of Saturn.

Hell, the Bolivia Salt Flats would make a really great mindscape for dead Jedi to hang out in and grant visions to alive Jedi.