“We had the actual Falcon models that we were able to photograph,” says ILM VFX supervisor Patrick Tubach. The textures also added to the authenticity of the Millennium Falcon. For example, when the Millennium Falcon swings into action, the actors were in its cockpit, mounted on a motion base, and then the visual effects team added the rest of the craft and battle digitally in the computer. This reproduction was used for all the scenes that involved the actors.
“It’s almost a 100 percent faithful reproduction of the original,” he says. “The cockpit for the Millennium Falcon was made bigger for Empire Strikes Back, and there’s an original blueprint at ILM,” creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan explains, adding that the production “copied that implicitly.” The inside of the Millennium Falcon also had pieces from an old Citroen car, and they couldn’t find the pieces anymore, so they contacted the Citroen motor company to get them. That’s because the visual effects team behind the film took great pains to bring back the spacecraft in all its original battered glory. When Harrison Ford’s Han Solo is reunited with his iconic Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, that look of recognition with which he greets his trusty ship is probably shared by a lot of the movie’s fans.
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