WOW hows that for fan-art, eh? George should just pack it in.

These look great. But I do think the Fanboys would have complained if Lucas had tried something like this.

apparently in steampunk, boobs are 74% bigger.

"why George Lucas spent millions on The Clone Wars animated series and not something more artistic like this"

Because, even though Clone Wars was a bad animated movie (meaning that the animation itself was terrible) to animate high-res models such as those ones take a lot of more time and money. And honestly only a few companies would be able to pull it off and make it look good. For instance, look at Beowolf and FF The Spirit Within, very good looking models and texture, but terrible animation, specially Beowolf considering the technology available at the time.

In conclusion, I believe that one of those few companies that could pull it off is Pixar, but they are not interested as to right now to make anything realistic, in the sense of models and texture. Their animation is the most realistic there is. But I hope one day they'll make one realistic looking movie.

I think the real reason that no Star Wars animation would use something "more artistic, like this" is because this is just different for the sake of being different. It's just re-imagining established and popular aesthetics as part of a popular internet trend (I like Steampunk fine, for the record). The Thunderbirds look chosen for the Clone Wars series was actually quite a bold (and, yes, "artistic") idea based on the fact that all conventional wisdom suggested it be animated like TMNT or Bee Movie or Madagascar or something. Not only that, but the Clone Wars animation has a real referential quality in that the show itself is written/based on the principals of science-ficiton television serials, so why not blend the classic puppet/model look from those serials with what is possible, now?

Plus, while it's nice artwork and all, any extended movie or television series where it takes 42 seconds of hand-cranking to start up a lightsaber or entire scenes of co-pilots shoveling coal to power their spaceship would get old really fast. And those sorts of things would have to be involved because if you didn't alter the mechanics/logistics of the films after radically altering the look and superficial science of the films, then what's the point of making everything different in the first place?

Also worth mentioning: Star Wars is special because audiences of all ages find things (big and little) to which they can connect, even thought the portrayed universe is completely foreign to ours. "Steampunking" Star Wars would just be flipping it around and making Star Wars into a historical, more grounded adventure (I'm having horrible visions of Wild Wild West) but with a few really wacky outlandish ideas like lightsabers thrown in.

Since when did space fantasy like "Star Wars" approach even "superficial" science? (Just to split hairs for fun.)
Your point is well taken. Steampunk is best left limited to visual, not animated art. Except maybe the occasional videogame, like American McGee's "Alice", which will, I think, be a shi@#y movie regardless of casting or release proximity to Burton's also most likely mediocre adaptation.

I liked Steamboy...the animation worked fine then.
I like steampunk, so just the fact that it is also starwars is cool.

AREE YOU KIDDING ME? IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE BOBAFETT? PULEASE! COMN, THE REAL BOBAFET DESTROYS THAT THING, LOOKS LIKE THATDUMB CHARACTER DOUG JONES PLAYS IN HELLBOY. I LIKE YOUR POINT ON LUCAS THOUGH, HIS MIND HAS BEEN DRAINED AND HE IS NOW A CHILD.

^ Settle down Gajonka. It's all art anyway.

I went to the sight and saw more ship that they have there. It's worth a look very industrial and mechanical.

they also have an incredible Admiral Ackbar

Steampunk is always fun.

Steampunk needs to die. Soon.

The leather trade does well out of steampunk.

That is a bonny set o' tets!