Heir to the Empire animation Chapter 18

[somebuddyX]

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Darth Angelus has been releasing this over the past two years. Maybe some of you have seen them. With Chapter 18 he's really upped his game with the rendering software quality and I just wanted to share.

NOTE: I searched for a few minutes for an existing "HTTE" thread or a "Star Wars fan films" thread but didn't see one, but if there is one maybe this could just get added to that.

 

[publiusr]

I had no idea

 

[fireproof78]

NOTE: I searched for a few minutes for an existing "HTTE" thread or a "Star Wars fan films" thread but didn't see one, but if there is one maybe this could just get added to that.

Never seen this before. What is this?

 

[somebuddyX]

Never seen this before. What is this?

So Heir to the Empire was a novel by Timothy Zahn from 1991, the first in what was later called The Thrawn Trilogy, that helped kickstart the Star Wars Expanded Universe of books and games and comics. Back then the series kind of served the same function as what the current shows and the Sequel Trilogy did, picking up five years after Return of the Jedi and exploring how the original trilogy characters functioned in a world where the Rebellion had transformed into the fledgling New Republic, and the Empire, though diminished, was being led by master tactician Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Anyway Darth Angelus has been animating the chapters over the last few years and I've been enjoying seeing what he does and the dude is such a nice guy, but I was just really impressed with what he was able to do with the latest chapter. It's him using mocap and animating himself and voicing it with a bunch of friend.
Anyway, if you or anyone else is interested he'd put all the chapters that he'd animated so far into one long video, which is just under two hours.

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[Gaith]

I love the Thrawn Trilogy as much as anyone, but I'm not sure even a professionally animated word-for-word translation to the screen would hold my interest, whereas a live-action one (or even a hybrid of live action dialogue with entirely animated action) probably would. Animation has its strengths, to be sure, the but kind of dialogue-driven complex character work Zahn excels at is not one of them. So, much respect to this guy for the work he's putting in, but even as a major Thrawn Trilogy fan, it's not for me.