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Scanlan told Entertainment Weekly in November 2015 that the robot\'s design came from an original sketch by Abrams, saying "It was a very simple sketch, beautiful in its simplicity of a ball with this little dome on top." Of BB-8\'s design "with differently shaped panels on each side to help the viewer’s eye track movement", Scanlan said "If you had parallel patterns that ran around the circumference, they would be less informative as to the direction BB-8 was traveling than a slightly more chaotic pattern."\n', '

Abrams also named the robot, telling Entertainment Weekly in August 2015, "I named him BB-8 because it was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the two B\'s." The name was conceived early on in the film\'s production and was one of the few to remain unchanged.\n', '

In August 2013, The Force Awakens cinematographer Danie…