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How ‘Lightyear’ Used Inspiration From NASA to Design Its Retrofuturistic Spaceships

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorPixar’s “Lightyear,” an origin story based on the beloved astronaut Buzz Lightyear from the “Toy Story franchise,” takes the series into new galaxies with a fleet of NASA-inspired spaceships.

Chris Evans voices Buzz, a human astronaut who inspired Andy’s favorite toy in the movie that takes place years before the events of the first “Toy Story.” Opening in theaters on June 17, Buzz travels through time and space as he sets out on his first mission out of Star Command — the peacekeeping organization consisting of Space Rangers.Set art director Greg Peltz spoke with Variety as Pixar unveiled a new trailer for the animated feature, and explained the idea was to draw from the films and retain the work that had been laid out before, but he also wanted create a more defined look for this film. “Ours is very much inspired by the technology and the films of our childhood in the ‘70s and ‘80s,” Peltz says, mentioning “2001: A Space Odyssey” and even “Interstellar” as inspiration.

The idea was that the film would be one Andy had seen as a kid. “It’s like his ‘Star Wars.’ I didn’t get to see it in the theaters, but it was still like a big movie for me when I was growing up because it was so huge,” Peltz says.

He thought it would be “fun to make something that is like a love letter to that era of moviemaking, in that era of technology.”Peltz worked with production designer Tim Evatt and cinematographer Jeremy Lasky as he designed ships and vehicles with distinctive silhouettes that would register as cool and cinematic. “We also wanted to achieve a level of detail that will allow those lighters to realize those images.

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