Disney+ and Lucasfilm have introduced Star Wars: Visions Quantity 2, the animated anthology collection – “It’s Star Wars such as you’ve by no means seen earlier than. No, actually.” The brand new set of movies picks up the place the favored Emmy Award-nominated Star Wars: Visions Quantity 1 left off, promising to “proceed to push the boundaries of Star Wars storytelling.” That includes 9 new shorts from 9 studios, the movies harness animation types from varied artists, cultures, and nations, providing a brand new perspective on the storied mythos of Star Wars, hitting the streamer Might 4.
A global roster of animation studios contributed to Quantity 2, together with El Guiri (Spain); Cartoon Saloon (Eire); Punkrobot (Chile); Aardman (United Kingdom); Studio Mir (South Korea); Studio La Cachette (France); 88 Footage (India); D’artwork Shtajio (Japan); and Triggerfish (South Africa). D’Artwork Shtajio’s brief was created in collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd. (United States).
“The response to the primary quantity of Star Wars: Visions blew us away,” shared James Waugh, Star Wars: Visions government producer and Senior Vice President Franchise Content material & Technique at Lucasfilm. “We have been delighted that this undertaking impressed and resonated with so many individuals. We all the time noticed Star Wars: Visions as a framework for celebratory expressions of the franchise from a number of the finest creators working in the present day. Animation is in a world renaissance, and we’re always staggered by the quantity of creativity pushing the medium ahead. With Quantity 1, the imaginative minds of Japan’s anime business have been on full show. With Quantity 2, we expanded our canvas to take audiences on a world tour of a number of the most gifted creators from around the globe. We’re so proud to have the ability to reveal the line-up of studios we’ve assembled. Each brief is unimaginable, stuffed with coronary heart, scope, creativeness, and the values that make tales distinctly Star Wars — all whereas opening up daring new methods of seeing what a ‘Star Wars’ story will be.”
Waugh government produces Star Wars: Visions Quantity 2 together with Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes.
Right here’s a rundown of the shorts and filmmakers:
Title: “Sith” – Studio: El Guiri
Rodrigo Blaas – author/director
The Emmy Award-winning director is a 20+ yr veteran of animation. After co-founding Stromboli Animation in 1997, Blaas joined Blue Sky Studios in 2000, the place he labored on the animated characteristic movie Ice Age. He subsequently transitioned to Pixar Animation Studios, the place he labored on a number of hit animated options, together with Discovering Nemo (2003); The Incredibles (2004); Ratatouille (2007); and Wall-E (2008) and on the Oscar-nominated brief movie La Luna (2011). He lately partnered with Guillermo del Toro to develop the award-winning collection Trollhunters, serving as artistic director for Mikros Animation Paris. In 2021, he created El Guiri Studios in Madrid along with his accomplice, Cecile Hokes. He additionally wrote and directed the 2009 award-winning brief movie Alma.
Title: “Screecher’s Attain” – Studio: Cartoon Saloon
Paul Younger – Director
The Cartoon Saloon co-founder and IFTA winner and Oscar, Emmy, and BAFTA nominee produced the animated options My Father’s Dragon; WolfWalkers; The Secret of Kells; Track of the Sea; and The Breadwinner in addition to award-winning TV collection together with “Puffin Rock, Dorg Van Dango, and Viking Skool.
Title: “Within the Stars” – Studio: Punkrobot
Gabriel Osorio – author/director
The Oscar-winning director, and founding father of Punkrobot Studio, studied Nice Arts at Universidad de Chile and later specialised in 3D animation. Since 2008, he has directed tasks for kids’s tv, together with Flipos, Muelin y Perlita, and Soccer Women. In 2016, his brief movie Bear Story turned the primary Latin American undertaking to win an Oscar within the animated brief class.
Title: “I Am Your Mom” – Studio: Aardman
Magdalena Osinska – director
The award-winning director started her tenure at Aardman eight years in the past. She has directed stop-motion, CGI, 2D, and live-action commercials, together with Wallace & Gromit’s The Nice Couch Caper and Share the Orange. As well as, Osinska directed the event of the kids’s collection Joyets. Her directorial credit embody Spirits of the Piano and Zbigniev’s Cabinet. She graduated from the Nationwide Movie and Tv College in Beaconsfield, UK, the Polish Movie College in Lodz, and Artwork Faculty in Warsaw. Osinska is presently creating the characteristic movie Jasia, based mostly on her grandmother’s reminiscences of WWII Poland.
Title: “Journey to the Darkish Head” – Studio: Studio Mir
Hyeong Geun Park – director
After becoming a member of the Korean animation business in 2017, Park directed animation for dozens of cinematic recreation trailers. He has since expanded into animated collection, engaged on tasks together with Dota: Dragon’s Blood: E-book 3 (2022) and Lookism (2022). Journey to the Darkish Head is the primary title he government produced from begin to end.
Title: “The Spy Dancer” – Studio: Studio La Cachette
Julien Chheng – author/director
The CEO and co-founder of Emmy Award-winning French animation Studio La Cachette, he was skilled in visible improvement at Disney and labored as a personality animator on 2D animated options The Rabbi’s Cat, Mune, and Academy Award-nominated Ernest and Celestine. In 2021, he gained an Emmy Award as animation government producer of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, for which he additionally served as animation supervisor. In 2022, Chheng directed, with Jean-Christophe Roger, the Cesar-nominated characteristic Ernest and Celestine: A Journey to Gibberitia.
Title: “The Bandits of Golak” – Studio: 88 Footage
Ishan Shukla – director
Starting his profession as a CG artist in Singapore, he spent greater than a decade spearheading tasks starting from TV commercials to collection and music movies. Lengthy listed for the Academy Awards, Shukla’s 2016 animated brief Schirkoa acquired a number of awards and performed at 120 worldwide festivals, together with SIGGRAPH Asia, the place it was named Finest in Present. He has since arrange his personal studio to work on adult-oriented animated characteristic movies, together with a feature-length model of Schirkoa, set to hit festivals in Summer season 2023.
Title: “The Pit” – Studios: D’artwork Shtajio and Lucasfilm Ltd.
LeAndre Thomas – author/director/government producer
Justin Ridge – co-producer
Oakland-based Thomas’ most up-to-date movie gained Finest Director on the Pasadena Worldwide Movie Competition. Along with his unbiased movies, Thomas is part of the franchise studio workforce at Lucasfilm Ltd., the place he has labored for greater than 11 years. His latest credit embody Mild & Magic, The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi.
Ridge government produced the Emmy-nominated collection Star Wars Resistance. His credit additionally embody Star Wars Rebels; Storks; The Cleveland Present; Star Wars: The Clone Wars; and Avatar: The Final Airbender.
Title: “Aau’s Track” – Studio: Triggerfish
Nadia Darries and Daniel Clarke – writers/administrators
Director, animator, and co-founder of Goon Valley Animation, Darries hails from the Cape Flats in South Africa. Since 2015 she has labored on high-end animated movie and movement design as an animator, undertaking supervisor, artistic director, and director. At Triggerfish Animation Studios, she has labored on the award-winning BBC movies Stick Man, Revolting Rhymes, and Freeway Rat.
Clarke is a Cape City-based director and artist working in animation, movie, and illustration. He began his animation profession in 2008 at Triggerfish Animation Studios, serving as manufacturing designer, artwork director, and director on the characteristic movie Khumba, BBC’s Stick Man, and The Snail and the Whale. In 2018, together with James Clarke and Daniel Snaddon, he accomplished the graphic novel “Kariba.”
Star Wars: Visions Quantity 2 streams solely on Disney+ starting Might 4, 2023.
Supply: Disney+
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
