Grogu is Wearing Boba Fett’s Helmet in The Mandalorian Concept Art..

I just got my art of the mandalorian book in the mail today which is a really nice book, I highly recommend checking it out, there’s tons of early sketches here as the show was in its earliest production and you really get a feel for how detailed and creative Jon favreau is with how he wanted everything to look and feel. Today’s episode is going to take a piece from the book and discuss one sketch I found particularly interesting. Now if you didn’t see the name of the channel already, then let me just say this is nothing but a theory and should remain as such. That said, this one really has me thinking and it makes me uneasy. During the team’s original conception of creating Baby Yoda, which they in fact refer to in the book as baby Yoda until his name was later revealed just recently, we can see all the different ideas and sketches they had when trying to create Jon’s vision of what he wanted the child to look like. The creation of this iconic being that took the world by storm is really more complicated than you might think, and it made me really appreciate just how much effort, detail and revisions went into it by Favreau and the entire art team. The first sketch was just a shot in the dark, and it was essentially what they write as a human child with makeup. They speak of the process regarding how difficult it was to actually get it right, as Jon didn’t want it to be too cute, but also not not cute at the same time. They also tried to make Grogu look like Yoda, while not looking too much like Yoda. Another issue they encountered was that he had to look somewhat old, yet be a baby. So once they drew the facial ratios for a child, they then went in and put the details Jon wanted in there.

Finding that perfect balance was tough and it took a lot of time and trial and error, but in the end, they got it perfect. Gizmo from the Gremlins was even mentioned as a reference in Grogu’s physical creation.

There are several pages going into detail about the nuances of getting Grogu right, however among all the sketches, I landed on this. This photo right here got be pretty worried, that maybe the theory I presented about Boba Fett dying, could come true. Why is he wearing Boba’s helmet? Look, it could just be a fun sketch to see the proportions of the child to the size of a helmet we all have known so well for 40 years. Or, it could be something more, something that involves the child being saved by Boba in a sacrificial effort that costs him his life. I say this not because it’s what I want, but it’s what I have a feeling might happen, especially after seeing this, and I hope I’m wrong.

Boba’s death could push Mando to learn more about the true mandalorians and perhaps splinter off his dogmatic views instilled by deathwatch. I think with Boba’s death, since he was the heir to the throne of the true mandalorians, with his father being jango and jango’s mentor being master me reel, the former ruler of the mandalorians before the civil war, Din might see just how ridiculous his sect of Mandalorian is.

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