Via Starwars.com:
LEARN HOW ONE ARTIST RETOLD THE STORY OF A NEW HOPE IN A WHOLE NEW WAY.
One of the greatest aspects of Star Wars fandom is the creativity. Cosplay. Fan films. Recipes. You can now add Mind-Blowing Infographics to that list.
Martin Panchaud of Zurich, Switzerland, has created an all-new kind of Star Wars adaptation: he has retold Star Wars: A New Hope as an infographic. It has every word of the script attached to well-designed dots that represent characters. It has cleanly rendered top-down illustrations of Star Destroyers (including a see-through version to show where the Tantive IV was docked after being caught in a tractor beam), the sandcrawler, X-wings, and more. In total, the single infographic contains 157 images, is over 400 feet long and, somehow, it all works. (The recreation of the Death Star attack briefing and the trench run are particularly clever.) StarWars.com e-mailed Panchaud a few questions to find out how he did it.
StarWars.com: Where did the idea for the infographic come from?
Martin Panchaud: I have a comic background and a few years ago, after my studies, I felt the need to break out of traditional comic [methods] and find a modern and very minimalistic style to tell my own stories. I started to get interested in the way infographics convey content in the most efficient way possible and I had to know whether or not it would be possible to not only represent facts and numbers but tell adventurous stories and evoke real emotions using this visual style. After some test pieces I understood that, if done correctly, the human mind is able to feel empathy for abstract forms if they previously have been put in a narrative context. A New Hope was the next step in the development of this work. My goal was to test peoples reaction to my style by adapting a story that challenges the imaginary and since Star Wars is an amazing childhood memory and has had a huge impact on pop culture, and also is a real timeless piece, I wanted to prove to everybody, but mainly to myself, that this was possible.
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