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TFTC Finished - Sneakpeek!

Added 2025-02-01 02:04:41 +0000 UTC

And I believe that's all of the animation completed for Star Wars Tie Fighter Total Conversion (not directly related to my original Tie Fighter animation, but same source material!). The full video is 7 minutes long now and going off for music and sound effects today to game lead Angel and his team. The current sounds are placeholders and subject to change. Big thanks to Angel and the team! Also here's the trailer, which explains more about TFTC for those who never played 1994's TIE Fighter or 1999's X-Wing Alliance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEVrdwZ9bEk

Obviously being Star Wars, it needs the classic text crawl at the start, as it is an opening for a game and players need to know the story, time setting, etc. However! In today's world of SUPER HIGH ENGAGEMENT CONTENT, when we eventually put it up on the Youtube channel, most viewers will probably click away from the video before the text even finishes! So it was Maki's idea to put some twinkling stars and an animated shooting star in the background to give viewers a little more visual stimuli while reading.

She also edited and re-shaded the emperor's close-up shot to match his portrait more in Return of the Jedi. It was one of the first shots when I started working on it long ago, and his face was a bit challenging from the texture and lighting of the special effects makeup.
It turns out Sheev is quite difficult to draw. But yes, progress!

I'll give a heads up when it's ready to go on the Youtube!

-Paul