Lucasfilm has announced that prequel-trilogy artists Doug Chiang and Iain McCraig will be returning to work on Star Wars: Episode VII.
This makes me very happy, as it means we'll be seeing some strong aesthetic continuity between Episode VII and those films that came before. Chiang and McCraig certainly produced some novel designs for Episode I, but they showed great skill in morphing these into shapes we were more familiar with as the Prequel Trilogy went on (see, specifically, the ARC-170 and Venator-class Star Destroyer). Hopefully Chiang and McCain will be able to do this again as they blend the characters and vehicles of the Original Trilogy with those of the upcoming episodes.
