Long before CGI dominated, the original Star Wars brought its galaxies to life with massive hand-painted matte backdrops. 🎨🚀✨ Artists painstakingly created entire planets, hangars, and skylines on huge canvases, which were then seamlessly combined with live-action footage to make the universe feel vast and real. Some of the saga’s most iconic locations weren’t digital at all—they were paintings quietly framing the actors, a testament to how far pure artistry could take filmmaking before techno