Star Wars: Visions - 9 animated short films from "leading Japanese anime studios", coming Sep 22, 2021 on Disney+

[Porthos]

8 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

i actually preferred the village bride but the duel would have been the more strategic pick.

 

Lightsaber Brolly probably would have turned some voters off.  It's also very anime which, while true to what the project was supposed to be, might not be what Oscar* wants.

*Not that I've paid the slightest bit of attention to the Oscars the last fifteen years or so, so maybe I'm wrong here.

 

Out of all of them, The Village Bride seems like one of the more relatable ones to a broad audience.  The Elder is another one that I think could have appealed to broad strokes.

 

But, dunno.  Pay even less attention to who has been winning the animated short feature than I have the Oscars themselves (i.e. none), so maybe you're right here that The Duel would have been more Their Vibe.

Edited November 6, 2021 by Porthos

[CoolioD1]

i get their reasoning would've probably been that the village bride was the fullest narrative. but i think particularly with the shorts they can pay more attention to form than narrative and the duel was generally the most acclaimed along with the ninth jedi (my favourite but i get why you wouldn't pick this one it feels like a TV pilot) and the duel is a big Kurosawa reference.

[Reddroast]

On 11/6/2021 at 1:23 AM, 4815162342 said:

 

 

I wonder if the studio who made the village bride will have their past catch up to them....

[Porthos]

As somewhat expected according to the rumor-sphere, not just anime for season 2 of Visions:

 

 

Looks to be: 

California

Chile

France

India

Ireland

Japan

Spain

South Africa

South Korea

UK

Edited May 29, 2022 by Porthos

[4815162342]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

As somewhat expected according to the rumor-sphere, not just anime for season 2 of Visions:

 

 

Looks to be: 

California

Chile

France

India

Ireland

Japan

Spain

South Africa

South Korea

UK

 

Cartoon Saloon Star Wars maybe?

[Potiki]

 

Damn a year already, very much looking forward to season 2!

 

[Kalo]

Can't Wait for Season 2! first season was magic. really hope they do a follow up episode to the Ninth Jedi.

[Porthos]

 

[Porthos]

I have to say, I personally am incredibly excited to see Aardman Star Wars!!!  

 

Judging by comments over at SW Leaks it might very well be stop motion animation and if so... Well sign me the hell up!!!

 

Also, from starwars.com, deets about the shorts:

 

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Title: “Sith”

Studio: El Guiri

Writer-director: Rodrigo Blaas

 

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.

 

Title: “Screecher’s Reach”

Studio: Cartoon Saloon

Director: Paul Young

 

Paul Young is a co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an IFTA winner and Oscar®, Emmy® and BAFTA nominee. He produced the animated features My Father’s Dragon, WolfWalkers, The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner as well as award-winning TV series including Puffin Rock, Dorg Van Dango, and Viking Skool.

 

Title: “In the Stars”

Studio: Punkrobot

Writer-director: Gabriel Osorio

 

Gabriel Osorio majored in Fine Arts at Universidad de Chile, later specializing in 3D animation. After working in commercials, movies and television series, he founded Punkrobot Studio. Since 2008, he has directed projects for children’s television including Flipos, Muelin y Perlita, Soccer Girls, and television spots. In 2016, his short film Bear Story became the first Latin American project to win an Oscar® in the animated short category.

 

Title: “I Am Your Mother”

Studio: Aardman

Director: Magdalena Osinska

 

Magdalena Osinska is an award-winning director who has been with Aardman for eight years. She has directed stop-motion, CGI, 2D and live-action commercials including Wallace & Gromit’s “The Great Sofa Caper” and “Share the Orange.” Osinska directed development of the children’s series Joyets and has also directed films including Spirits of the Piano and Zbigniev’s Cupboard. A graduate of the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK, as well as the Polish Film School in Lodz and Art College in Warsaw, Osinska is currently developing the feature film Jasia, based on her grandmother’s memories of WWII Poland.

 

Title: “Journey to the Dark Head”

Studio: Studio Mir

Director: Hyeong Geun Park

 

Rising star Hyeong Geun Park had already made a name for himself when he entered the Korean animation industry in 2017, thanks to his strong drawing and animation sensibilities. He has directed animation for dozens of cinematic game trailers and has since expanded into animated series, working on projects including Dota: Dragon’s Blood: Book 3 (2022) and Lookism (2022). Journey to the Dark Head is the first title he has executive produced from start to finish.

 

Title: “The Spy Dancer”

Studio: Studio La Cachette

Writer-director: Julien Chheng

 

Julien Chheng is CEO of Studio La Cachette, an Emmy Award®-winning French animation studio he co-founded in 2014 with fellow Gobelins school’s alumni Oussama Bouacheria and Ulysse Malassagne. Chheng was trained in visual development at Disney and has worked as a character animator on acclaimed 2D animated features The Rabbi’s Cat, Mune, and the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest and Celestine. In 2021, he won an Emmy Award® as animation executive producer of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, for which he also served as animation supervisor. In 2022, Chheng directed with Jean-Christophe Roger the Cesar-nominated feature Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia.

 

Title: “The Bandits of Golak”

Studio: 88 Pictures

Director: Ishan Shukla

Ishan Shukla started his career as a CG artist in Singapore. For more than a decade, he spearheaded projects ranging from TV commercials to series and music videos. His 2016 animated short, "Schirkoa," was long listed for the Academy Awards® after receiving dozens of awards and playing at 120 international festivals, including SIGGRAPH Asia where it was named Best in Show. He then set up his own animation studio to work on adult-oriented animated feature films including a feature-length version of Schirkoa, set to hit festivals in summer 2023.

 

Title: “The Pit”

Studios: D’art Shtajio and Lucasfilm Ltd.

Writer-director-executive producer: LeAndre Thomas

Co-director: Justin Ridge

 

LeAndre Thomas is an award-winning writer and director from Oakland, Calif., whose most recent film won Best Director at the Pasadena International Film Festival. In addition to his independent films, Thomas is a part of the franchise studio team at Lucasfilm Ltd. where he has worked for more than 11 years being credited on recent titles such as Light & Magic, The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, and many more.

 

Justin Ridge executive produced the Emmy®-nominated series Star Wars Resistance. His credits also include Star Wars Rebels, Storks, The Cleveland Show, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

 

Title: “Aau’s Song”

Studio: Triggerfish

Writer-directors: Nadia Darries and Daniel Clarke

 

Nadia Darries is a director, animator and co-founder of Goon Valley Animation, with an avocation for songwriting. Born in the Cape Flats in South Africa, Darries has worked on high-end animated film and motion design as an animator, project manager, creative director and director since 2015. Her experience includes animating at Triggerfish Animation Studios on the award-winning BBC films Stick Man, Revolting Rhymes, and Highway Rat.

 

Daniel Clarke is a Cape Town-based director and artist working in animation, film and illustration. He started his career in animation in 2008 at Triggerfish Animation Studios, where he has served as production designer, art director and director on projects such as the feature film Khumba, BBC’s Stick Man, and The Snail and the Whale. In 2018, along with James Clarke and Daniel Snaddon, he completed the graphic novel Kariba.

 

 

[Potiki]

Slightly disappointed that whatever Japanese studio (according to that map we got ) was meant to have a short (unless they were including the already released season 1 shorts) got bumped but apart from that the lineup looks great and as @Porthos mentioned if we get a stop motion short that would be incredible! 
 

Studio Mir and Cartoon Saloon are probably the other 2 I’m most looking forward to watching. But all of them sound interesting enough and being shorts I will for sure watch them all. 

[Porthos]

51 minutes ago, Potiki said:

Slightly disappointed that whatever Japanese studio (according to that map we got ) was meant to have a short (unless they were including the already released season 1 shorts) got bumped but apart from that the lineup looks great and as @Porthos mentioned if we get a stop motion short that would be incredibl

 

I suspect the D’art Shtajio/Lucasfilm collaboration is the Japanese studio this go around.

 

I also suspect that animation lead times being what they are, we'll get more of the S1 Vision studios in the inevitable S3 of Visions.

Edited February 3, 2023 by Porthos

[Porthos]

 

[RandomCat]

9 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

Was that Aardman studios I saw in there?

[Porthos]

3 minutes ago, RandomCat said:

Was that Aardman studios I saw in there?

 

Sure was! 👍

 

On 2/2/2023 at 10:44 AM, Porthos said:

 

 

On 2/2/2023 at 10:50 AM, Porthos said:

I have to say, I personally am incredibly excited to see Aardman Star Wars!!!  

 

Judging by comments over at SW Leaks it might very well be stop motion animation and if so... Well sign me the hell up!!!

 

Also, from starwars.com, deets about the shorts:

 

 

 

 

[RandomCat]

8 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

Sure was! 👍

 

 

 

Sweet. It looks like two separate Stop Motion stories. So I'm all in on that, I don't know the other studios, but all of what I saw looks amazing. 

 

I don't know why, but I thought Visions was just a retelling of stories by different animated studios.

[Inceptionzq]

Visions wasn’t really my cup of tea, but this trailer looks great.