Las nuevas generaciones no aman Star Wars, o no han tenido la oportunidad de caer rendidos ante la franquicia, pero los directores, científicos, pilotos y astronautas que engendró la primera trilogía son el fiel testigo del poder de la relativamente sencilla y poco original historia que un tal George Lucas contó.
Es el caso de este impresionante trabajo de Paul Michael Johnson mejor conocido como MightyOtaking en DeviantArt y como OtaKing77077 en Youtube.
Él tiene la edad para apenas haberse perdido la primera trilogía en pleno en cine, haber gozado la época dorada de juegos de PC de Lucasarts y formarse una no del todo satisfactoria opinión de la segunda trilogía.
Combinando su afición por Star Wars, las horas jugando Tie Fighter, su aprecio por la estética de la animación japonesa y dedicando a ello cuatro años, él ha creado este corto animado "Tie Fighter" que responde a la pregunta de :
¿Y qué tal que durante los 80s en Japón hubiese existido una serie animada que siguiera los eventos de combatientes del lado del imperio?
Esta es su respuesta
Bárbaro Mr. Johnson, bárbaro
What if there was an Empire-focussed short Star Wars animation, drawn with the crazy detail and shading of classic 80s anime that's all but vanished from Japan nowadays?
Well, I tried my best. Apologies in advance for not living up to Venus Wars standards.
Drawn and animated by yours truly over 4 years' worth of weekends, with music by the living guitar solo Zak Rahman and sound design by up and coming audio technician Joseph Leyva. Fans of Lucasarts' seminal 1994 TIE Fighter game may notice a few familiar sights and sounds. That “incoming missile” noise gives me horrible flashbacks to this day...Official poster art: http://mightyotaking.deviantart.com/a...
“Interdictor,” the music track: https://soundcloud.com/zakrahman/tie-...
Story/character info pdf file: http://www.mediafire.com/view/cpnc1oj...Special thanks to the good folk at Lucasfilm for encouraging people to get creative and make these kind of projects. It's thanks to their extremely fan-friendly nature that we can enjoy IMPS: The Relentless, TROOPS, etc.
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