STAR WARS FAN FILM AWARDS

Via Starwars.com:

WATCH AND CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE FAN-MADE FILMS!

It’s time to choose the Audience Choice Award winner of the Star Wars Fan Film Awards, and you’re our only hope!

Available now on StarWars.com are the top 25 entries of the Star Wars Fan Film Awards — comedies, action/adventures, and more creative works — as decided by the official judges, and we want to know which you think is strongest with the Force. Vote for your favorites, and the film with the most votes will be named the Audience Choice Award winner!

Voting is open globally until June 19, 11:59 p.m. PT, and there is a limit of one vote per person per day per Audience Choice finalist (midnight to midnight PT). See Official Rules for full details on Audience Choice Award voting. Log in to vote with your existing Star Wars account, or log in using your Facebook or Google account.

Stay tuned to StarWars.com for more on the Star Wars Fan Film Awards!

Voting for the Audience Choice award begins June 1 at 12 noon PT and ends June 19 at 11:59 p.m. See Official Rules for more details.

Star Wars in Halo 5 – Fan Creation

Via Gamespot.com:

“Starfighter Combat” is exactly what it sounds like.

Following the Halo 5: Guardians Star Wars podracing Forge mode comes another one themed around the sci-fi universe. This one lets you battle in space.

Xbox Live user CaptainDireWolf, who made the podracing mod, is behind this one as well. It’s called “Starfighter Combat,” and it supports 2-12 players. You play on a team of either X-wings or TIE fighters, and the object is simple: take out your enemies using any means necessary.

The Star Wars spaceships are modified Banshees. To kill your opponents, you need to either shoot the exploding barrels on the ships or aim at the Banshee itself, which is partially exposed. This map/mode makes use of a glitch, so expect some issues and oddities.

Drone Star Wars Fan Film

Via io9.com:

Camera-mounted drones can be used for all sorts of wonderful videos. But I’m pretty sure the most wonderful use is to create own X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter dogfight videos—because man, this is one brilliant idea.

The fine folks at Corridor Digital shot a bunch of footage using a set of drones mounted with various cameras, doing twists and turns as they flew across the sky—and even chased each other at times. Through the magic of digital effects, they then transposed 3D-printed X-Wing and TIE Fighter cockpits (and in the case of the X-Wing, a back half featuring an R2-D2 action figure for reaction shots!) over that footage. The result? One brilliant-looking spacefighter chase scene.

It’s really, really well done—even the crash footage from the crew’s filming is put to excellent use, to portray TIE Fighters being blasted out of the sky. Bookended by some cute little stop-motion segments using Star Wars action figures, it’s a great short film.

Star Wars Villain Darth Maul Takes Center Stage In New Fan Film

Via Ew.com:

Darth Maul, the villain from Star Wars’ Episode I – The Phantom Menace is getting his time in the spotlight in a new fan-made film released on YouTube by T7 Production.

“Darth Maul: Apprentice – A Star Wars Film” was written, directed, and edited by Shawn Bu, while Vi-Dan Tran worked on the impressive choreography.

“We worked incredibly hard on this film for almost two years,” read a statement attached to the film. “We always felt that Darth Maul should have had more screen time. So we wanted to create a film just for him with the best lightsaber fights we could do!”

Ben Schamma portrays the Sith apprentice in the project, paying tribute to the character who was slain by Obi-wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace. Ray Park portrayed the original character in George Lucas’ film, while Peter Serafinowicz lent his voice.