“Creature Concept Designer Jake Lunt Davies discusses BB-9E, the devious counterpart to Poe Dameron’s droid pal BB-8, and reveals a very special Easter egg.
‘This is not wholly my design, but a combination of some of my design and Luke Fisher’s, who did K-2SO. Both Luke and I were drawing ideas for BB-9E, the evil [First Order] droid. I think we both went, ‘It’s got to be black, hasn’t it?’ [Laughs] So both of our droids were pretty black. Mine were much more shiny and had this gloss, which carried over to the final design,” stated Davies.
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