Cantwell got his most famous mission after working on two other sci-fi films, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The man who designed Star Wars craft including the Death Star, TIE fighter, the Star Destroyer and X-wing has died aged 90.Colin Cantwell came up with the prototypes for the original Star Wars films - with other artists developing the iconic designs further.
He got the job after working on other sci-fi classics, namely Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.The Death Star's famous design pictured at an event in Japan in 2016. Pic: AP Born in 1932 in San Francisco, he studied animation at the University of California in LA and also attended Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned School of Architecture.
In the 1960s, he created educational programmes for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, so people could better understand space flights.
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