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Scott Zirkel

Making stuff up since 1977

Empire Strikes Back 3D sketchcards by Scott Zirkel

Topps 2010

I drew 106 sketch cards for Topps' 2010 widevision Empire Strikes Back 3D set, released for the film's 30th anniversary. Each hobby box contained a single 1-of-1 sketch card, so each one of these went to a different collector.

Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Luke on Bespin's antenna platform, Leia on a tauntaun, Han Solo in carbonite framing, and IG-88, Vader, and Boba Fett in the bounty hunter line-up.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: a hidden ground crew on Hoth, Luke and Leia with C-3PO and 2-1B, Han and Luke at the medbay, and Han hugging Leia.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Han and Leia close, Luke deflecting bolts from R2 with R2 sparking, Yoda inspecting the lightsaber, and a chibi Vader confronting young Luke.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Chewie waving on Hoth with a probe droid, Yoda hoisting Luke upside-down by the foot, Luke training in the Dagobah swamp, and Luke unconscious as a wampa attacks.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Dagobah swamp with Luke and R2-D2, Chewie, Han and Leia in the cockpit, Han frozen in carbonite, and Lando in Cloud City with Lobot.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: rebel pilots in Hoth briefing, Han Solo frozen in carbonite full-card, Vader fighting Yoda with a red lightsaber, and a chibi Luke escaping the wampa cave.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: C-3PO in the Cloud City cell, Luke and Leia at Bespin window, Han, Leia, R2 and C-3PO watching Falcon depart, and Luke in tauntaun sleeping bag.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: a Hoth turret being struck, an unconscious Han slumping in snow, hooded Vader portrait, and rainy Bespin with R2-D2.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: chibi Yoda showing his cane to a chibi Luke in the swamp, Yoda riding piggyback on Luke through the swamp, Falcon flying past the Exogorth's space-slug teeth, and silhouette of the space slug.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: chibi Luke gripping the underside of Cloud City, distant Star Destroyers and Falcon, Chewie hanging upside-down with broken restraints, and Lando handing the carbonite slab to Boba Fett.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Luke and Vader at the Cloud City carbon-freezing chamber, Chewie and Leia with Han, Chewie wrestling C-3PO's broken pieces, and Leia riding a tauntaun.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Han telling Leia he loves her, an open-mouthed wampa, a chibi Luke and chibi wampa in the cave, and an old Luke finding Han's frozen tauntaun.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: the bounty hunter line-up of Boba Fett, Bossk, Dengar, IG-88 and Zuckuss, a Tusken-Raider-style bounty hunter portrait, Boba Fett full body, and Han Solo shackled.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Bossk reptilian portrait, Han with a stormtrooper helmet, Boba Fett rocketing aerially, and Vader fighting Luke in shadow.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Bossk close-up, a wampa on Hoth, Han on a tauntaun riding through snow, and a young Luke pilot portrait.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: angry Yoda close-up, Obi-Wan ghost beside Yoda, a hooded Force-vision figure with goblin-Yoda, and Luke's X-wing arriving at Dagobah's swamp at night.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: a downed AT-AT with rebel running past, Han in pain bleeding from face, hooded Han and Leia talking, and Princess Leia speaking to camera.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Princess Leia angry with monitor reflections, chibi Chewie/Leia/Han huddled in fear, the wampa dragging Luke through snow, and Leia in a flowing dress.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: hooded Han Solo speaking, Chewie defending C-3PO from Ugnaughts, hooded Vader passing manacled Han to Boba Fett, and Han caught in the carbonite trap.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: an inverted Luke training mid-handstand, a hooded Yoda close-up at night, a hooded Luke at night, and rebel personnel watching the Falcon escape.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: a cloaked Vader stormtrooper portrait, a wampa-arm severed and bloody on the snow, Luke severing the wampa's arm in the cave, and C-3PO and Chewie dripping carbonite.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Han Solo with blaster on Cloud City, bald Bespin Wing Guard portrait, Luke aiming a blaster at his X-wing, and an Imperial probe droid full body.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Luke shocked at his severed hand, Vader's reflection in the carbon-freezing chamber, Vader and Luke close in shadow, and Boba Fett unconscious in the carbonite jet.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Bespin's Cloud City exterior, Princess Leia in rebel uniform, Yoda mid-Force-lift of Luke's X-wing, and Lando and Vader silhouetted on Cloud City.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: Princess Leia firing a blaster, Han frozen in carbonite slumped, Vader's TIE Advanced cockpit interior, and C-3PO with Lando.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 4 stacked landscape cards: two stormtroopers, a tiny Vader and Boba Fett with the carbonite slab on Cloud City, an empty Hoth landscape with a probe droid, and R2-D2 stuck in Dagobah swamp.Empire Strikes Back 3D panoramic sketchcards — 2 stacked landscape cards: an upside-down dead tauntaun in Vader's TIE cockpit, and a TIE fighter cockpit POV.