The Art Of Star Wars: Visions

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Animated Anthology: The shorts of Star Wars: Visions aren't connected in any way narratively, with each one featuring a different cast in a different setting somewhere and somewhen in the Star Wars galaxy. Tajin believes this in "The Elder", telling his apprentice that power is transient and fleeting, but while you have it, you should use it to help those without. This is one of the only vignettes in the series to feature established characters from the Star Wars franchise, which was a surprise. title=>"Ahsoka", :url=>"https://www.starwars.com/news/category/ahsoka"} {:title=>"Disney+", :url=>"https://www.starwars.com/news/category/disney+"} Ahsoka Extras: “Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord”

Thematic Sequel Logo Change: A simple and subtle one. In Season one, the Visions logo before each short was blue, like a Jedi lightsaber. In Season two, the logo is red, Like a Sith's lightsaber. Cast: Crux ( Daveed Diggs), Eureka ( Anika Noni Rose), Livy (Jordyn Curet), Old Prisoner ( Cedric Yarbrough), Commander ( Steven Blum), Stormtroopers ( Matthew Wood) This one was so pleasant to watch. The visuals were sweet and soft like a marshmallow, and it warmed my cold heart. Dawn of Maul by Will Wilson. Oil on Canvas, Mounted on Wood. 23" × 19" [ source?] A baby Maul sits, painted in the style of sacred paintings of the Byzantine Empire. Pictures | Indian studio 88 Pictures have never been the sole creators of a project before, making Star Wars: Visions a first for the animation team, although fans will likely have seen their work elsewhere as they’ve contributed to the likes of Guillermo del Toro’s Tales Of Arcadia franchise which includes Trollhunters, 3Below and Wizards, while they’ve also worked on Spirit Untamed and Fast & Furious Spy Racers as part of Dreamworks.If you ever wondered what Astro-Boy would look like in Star Wars, I have good news for you: it’s this episode and I mean that in the best way possible. Rodrigo Blaas is an Emmy Award®-winning director who has spent more than 20 years in animation. After co-founding Stromboli Animation in 1997, Blaas joined Blue Sky Studios in 2000, working on the feature film Ice Age, before transitioning to Pixar Animation Studios. There, he worked on such projects as Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), and Wall-E (2008) and on the Oscar®-nominated short film La Luna (2011). More recently, Blaas partnered with Guillermo del Toro to develop the award-winning series Trollhunters, served as creative director for Mikros Animation Paris and, in 2021, created El Guiri Studios in Madrid with his partner, Cecile Hokes. He also wrote and directed 2009’s award-winning short film Alma. The Mos Eisley Cantina with George Lucas as the Bartender by Paul G. Oxborough: George Lucas bartends for patrons at the Mos Eisley Cantina.

The Bandits Of Golak by 88 Pictures | Fleeing from their village by train and pursued by ferocious Imperial forces, a boy and his force-sensitive younger sister seek refuge in a vibrant and dangerous dhaba.Season 2 continues the pattern, with roughly half of the shorts being bittersweet, sometimes by being open to interpretation. Brett White of Decider gave a positive review, describing the series as "the most straightforward proof of Star Wars' legacy and enduring relevance. It is repeatedly remarkable to watch animation studios tell Star Wars stories that are freed from the usual Star Wars trappings." White also described each Visions installment as a "self-contained story that still feels wholly part of the franchise and in tune with George Lucas' original, well, vision." White compared Visions Volume 2 favourably to canonical recent Lucasfilm productions Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian Season 3. [47] Star Wars Visions: Limited Edition features more than fifty paintings and illustrations not seen in the trade edition, as well as "behind-the-scenes" shots of artists' working processes, preporatory sketches, and more. Presented in a delux format, with a real-cloth cover and clamshell case, the Limited Edition also comes with five 10 × 12" high-quality archival giclee prints, signed by artists Jamie Wyeth, Alex Ross, Moebius, Donato Giancola, and Daniel Greene. Standard [ ]

Cast: Jay (Japanese: Hiroyuki Yoshino; English: Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Geezer (Japanese: Kōsuke Gotō; English: Bobby Moynihan), Boba Fett (Japanese: Akio Kaneda; English: Temuera Morrison), K-344 (Japanese: Masayo Fujita; English: Shelby Young), Lan (Japanese: Anri Katsu; English: Marc Thompson) In "T0-B1", professor Mitaka tells the titular droid to find a kyber crystal and gives him the broken pieces of a lightsaber. T0-B1's crystal was literally inside of him all along, and he uses it to rebuild the saber and avenge his creator The Pit by D’art Shtajio | A fearless young prisoner, forced to dig for kyber by the Empire, plans a risky escape for he and his people.

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Star Wars: Visions is a unique blend of galactic lore and visual storytelling, an anthology series that invited seven Japanese anime studios to explore their own idea of Star Wars. Tatooine Rhapsody" uses a chibi art style, with both the original characters as well as Boba and the Hutts drawn using small and cute proportions, rather than their original realistic appearances.

A complete departure from the previous episode, its lighthearted narrative and visuals helped make this one feel unique. Lop and Ochō" ends with Ochō leaving her family and joining the Empire, shattering the bond she has with Lop and their father. Lop takes up the ancestral lightsaber and leadership of the Yasaburo clan and resolves to reconcile with her sister one day. Nelson expressed concern about insufficient coordination among the studios to avoid overlapping themes in their stories, observing that a third of Volume 2's stories revolved around young girls finding mentors to teach them how to use the Force. Nelson praised Volume 2 for exploring the political aspects of Star Wars more than Volume 1, citing the theme of indigenous resistance in "In the Stars", forced labor in "The Pit", and resistance in "The Spy Dancer". Nelson also described "Screecher's Reach" as an inverse of Joseph Campbell's " hero's journey" and "I Am Your Mother" as a lighthearted "mother and daughter" story that differed from the higher-stakes drama of the other stories. [50] Accolades [ edit ] Year Alternate Continuity: Even before their release, it was confirmed that these shorts are not necessarily canon for the Disney continuity or Legends. This was done so that each animation studio had more freedom when creating their stories without being hampered by continuity. Nonetheless, the shorts do broadly adhere to existing points in the timeline:

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We realized we wanted these to be as authentic as possible to the studios and creators who are making them, made through their unique process, in a medium they're such experts at. So the idea was, this is their vision riffing off all the elements of the Star Wars galaxy that inspired them — hopefully to make a really incredible anthology series, unlike anything we've seen before in the Star Wars galaxy." ― James Waugh [3]