Excellent work. The vfx were really well done so props to dafter things and studio LD. The animation was slick and nicely done. Always a treat to see you upload.
Damn Dank, you really outdid yourself here. Choreography was insane and your vfx guys really went the extra mile to make it even better, hats off! I found myself rewatching so many bits just to see how you managed to do it and the subtle transitions between effects like the Inqusitor's saber being cut in half. Cool shit my guy!
@dankmotionsstudios5161 if you make more Star Wars animations that would be amazing, but honestly, you're so talented I'm just excited to watch any animation you make! You're off the charts awesome, my friend! Any franchise you decide to animate would be epic! 👏
This is the first SW animation i’ve watched in a longggg time. Extremely captivating and better than anything LucasFilm has produced in a very long while. This would be a sick short film like the old Star Wars Republic trailers, it’s definitely on par with them! 2nd video added to the 2023 action recap 🙌
Thanks a lot! I had a bunch of lore planned up for this animation, but theres's quite a bit of stuff I didn't end up doing. Luke was supposed to get pushed into the darkside to win, and the battle was going to end up outside, where there would be more stormtroopers surrounding the base and executing prisoners. Luke was supposed to cripple an AT-ST with the force and unleash his inner Anakin Skywalker. The Inquisitor shown survived the galactic civil war by going into hiding shortly after the fall of the Inquisitorius program, and has been waiting in the shadows for many years waiting for a shift in power so he could fill the void and become the new ruler of the empire, or at least what's left of it. But all that stuff never ended up being shown or disclosed. Just turned into a short little lightsaber duel animation 🗿
Holy 😳 this is fantastic!! The set design, VFX, sound effects, and overall animation makes this one of the best Star Wars brickfilm I’ve ever seen! Props to you dank! 👍
AAAAH YOU'RE BACK, bro, I have no words to describe this, it's just perfect, the choreography is fantastic, incredible set design, but most important, you can feel this, it's dramatic, and that's what I love the most, for me this is the best lego Star Wars stop motion ever, I can't wait to see more
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really wanted to take a more dramatic approach with this one and have it carry a very somber meloncholy song. Luke is battling with himself as much as the inquisitor. He has to live with the fact that he's the one responsible for his friends' deaths while keeping his emotions in balance 🙏
THIS IS THE BEST BRICKFILM I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY 5 MONTHS OF ANIMATION!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! You have earned a sub!!! Can’t wait to see what other epic things you make in the future!!!!
THAT.... WAS.... AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! bro the fight choriography was top notch and the animation was SO SMOOTH and it all just looked so goooood. probably my new favorite brickfilm
this is porobably the best stop motion fan film i have seen! you did an amaxing job. i respect everyone whon does stop motion whether it be an official movie likje empire strikes back or for fun like this! i did stop motion as a kiid a few times and sucked at it but this was phenomenol
Well, I've had 8 years of practice. The past 3 Ive actually had the resources to hone my skills more effectively. Its all just about practice and learning new techniques.
The light side takes a lot more discipline and practice. The dark side is an easy tap into power without the proper refinement to be adequately put to good use
This is the first time it hit me that Luke actually killed people. In the official SW media they're always shown as just dying and then that's it, but that was just as brutal as Vader was. Good job on hitting me so hard, in a brickfilm, which I watched with the sound off! (Got to return with headphones though :D)
Dude I love the animation and effects as much as anybody but seriously the short story and the dialogue is amazingly well written, and I saw that bit of fight choreography from darth maul vs obi wan or was is Kwai gon I forgot. Nice
FancyPants choreography is legendary and I absolutely love his lightsaber duels. His camera work as well. Wonder if he'll ever see this some day. Glad you noticed!!! 👍
JUST WOW dave you have improved soooo muchhhh!! your animation has always been so good, but this is spectacular like beautiful stuff bro! felt like watching a movie! so well done bro! also did you get dragonframe or something?
Nope lol. Im still editing on my phone 🗿 Thank you very much for the kind words. Im glad you think I've improved. I wanted this to be the best lightsaber duel Ive done yet, so I went and found a bunch of inspiration and then got myself motivated to animate the duel of the century. It was originally supposed to be a way bigger and more drawn out lore, but lack of motivation & time hindered my abilities. It ended up just being a short little animation 👉👈
Very reminiscent of Fancy Pants’ Force Unleashed stop motion, with some of the camera work and angles Also, what program do you use for the lightsaber effects?
This was impressively animated. Just wish there was a bit of reflection at the end. Luke giving into his anger is acceptable from a narrative perspective, but it shouldn't go unremarked upon. It's always been his Achilles' heel. A character flaw that he spends his life overcoming. Just seems like you're glorifying it. That nitpick aside, this was impressively done.
I AGREE!!! Man, I was just so burnt out by the time I finished the fight scene, I just wanted the animation to end 😭😭😭 I really agree with you, and he definitely should have reflected on his actions and shown guilt for exploiting the dark side. Giving in to emotion isn't something Luke would be proud of as a Jedi, so you are quite right. Thank you for the feedback!!!
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 Thanks for responding! It’s super cool to know we’re on the same page. I do wanna do stress that literally everything else about this was top notch. Genuinely haven’t seen a stop motion lightsaber duel this dynamic and expressively animated before. Incredible work
I appreciate that! As a pretty hardcore Star Wars fan myself, I'd really like to get as much stuff right as possible, but there's really only so much I can do with the resources I have & a finite amount of motivation & time to get stuff done lol. My main inspiration for animation is the music that I know will accompany the piece I'm working on. I really enjoyed the score from RotJ "A Jedi's Fury," & I wanted to incorporate that song into an animation. That's where my inspiration for this brickfilm came from 😃
Great work! Keep up the hard work! Can't wait to see the next one! :D Also just subbed to your channel as well! :D Where'd you get that custom Inquisitor minifigure from? Can't wait for you to tell me! :D
Thanks for watching! The inquisitor figure isn't really anything special, honestly. The body is just one of those imperial dudes who opperate the deathstar controls, and the head piece is from a really old set that I dont recall building. I just had the piece laying around so I decided to use it 🗿
I have another project in the oven I've been working on. Its the next in a series of Halo Red vs Blue videos. I have a playlist with all the videos in chronological order if you wanna catch up before the next ep drops 🗿
Thanks!!! It hasn't all been bad. All the newest stuff since the sequels (excluding Book of Boba, Kenobi, and Mando s3) has been good. Andor and the previous Mandalorian seasons have been good in my opinion. I've also been enjoying Ahsoka. Rogue One was also a phenomenal star wars film guided by Disney.
Dude this is so good ! I like the references to fancy pants’s force unleashed animation .
This was really well done and I like the story you presented here. It was simple yet effective! Hope to see more!🤩
Thanks for watching!!!
Holy balls, how can a LEGO stop motion have such good choreography!?
Because its not disney star wars 🗿
@@dankmotionsstudios5161that’s so true, the sequels are buns
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 real
Nice tracking shot from The Force Unleashed brickfilm in there - only real ones remember...
It truly was the Fancy Pants reference of all time. I just love the camera work he used SO much lol
That was bad ass! One of the only brickfilmers to choreograph a staff saber properly.
Dude this was AMAZING!!! The combat was just… chef’s kiss 🤌
Glad you enjoyed!
Marvellous work, that Lightsaber battle was absolutely epic
Thanks!!!
Excellent work. The vfx were really well done so props to dafter things and studio LD. The animation was slick and nicely done. Always a treat to see you upload.
Indeed. Dafter has spent weeks on the VFX and its finally complete! Glad you enjoyed 👍👍👍
Damn Dank, you really outdid yourself here. Choreography was insane and your vfx guys really went the extra mile to make it even better, hats off! I found myself rewatching so many bits just to see how you managed to do it and the subtle transitions between effects like the Inqusitor's saber being cut in half. Cool shit my guy!
Thank you very much Huff. I appreciate the heck out of your comment 👍
This is one of my all time favorites now! Beautiful artistry here! I can't wait to see more!!!!!
Thank you so much! Hopefully star wars will be cool enough to make content about again...
@dankmotionsstudios5161 if you make more Star Wars animations that would be amazing, but honestly, you're so talented I'm just excited to watch any animation you make! You're off the charts awesome, my friend! Any franchise you decide to animate would be epic! 👏
Every IP I follow has been pretty garbage lately. Star wars and Halo have been major let downs. Im hoping to branch out to newer things 👍
The fighting is just insane, well done to everyone who contributed!
Thank you!!!
This is the first SW animation i’ve watched in a longggg time. Extremely captivating and better than anything LucasFilm has produced in a very long while. This would be a sick short film like the old Star Wars Republic trailers, it’s definitely on par with them! 2nd video added to the 2023 action recap 🙌
Thanks a lot! I had a bunch of lore planned up for this animation, but theres's quite a bit of stuff I didn't end up doing. Luke was supposed to get pushed into the darkside to win, and the battle was going to end up outside, where there would be more stormtroopers surrounding the base and executing prisoners. Luke was supposed to cripple an AT-ST with the force and unleash his inner Anakin Skywalker.
The Inquisitor shown survived the galactic civil war by going into hiding shortly after the fall of the Inquisitorius program, and has been waiting in the shadows for many years waiting for a shift in power so he could fill the void and become the new ruler of the empire, or at least what's left of it.
But all that stuff never ended up being shown or disclosed. Just turned into a short little lightsaber duel animation 🗿
Brutal! Beautifuly done! Very smooth with awesome effects and lightning!
Glad you enjoyed!
Holy 😳 this is fantastic!! The set design, VFX, sound effects, and overall animation makes this one of the best Star Wars brickfilm I’ve ever seen! Props to you dank! 👍
Thanks a ton!!! Appreciate it 👍
This is higher quality than the entire sequel trilogy. Keep up the great work.
Lol. The sequel trillogy is a low bar to beat 🗿
Definition of how a good stop motion should look like.
Lol thanks
Fight choreography is crazy good man! Loved this film! Keep it up please 🙏
Thank you! Will do!
This has to be the best choreographed LEGO stop Motion I’ve ever seen no exaggeration.
I appreciate that! Thank you very much!!!
This is LITERALLY one of the best stop motions ive ever seen.
Im glad you think so 😂
Legit
HOLY SITH!!! That was incredible! Loved the ROTJ music and the Fancy Pants references
glad someone got the references lol. Thanks 👍
Holy sith this guy said 💀
holy shit this choreography stunned me. not every day you see this level of action in stop motion, incredible work here.
i agre entirely! i have seen thousands of fan made stop motion films and this is by far the best
Thanks so much guys! Means a lot to hear 👍
AAAAH YOU'RE BACK, bro, I have no words to describe this, it's just perfect, the choreography is fantastic, incredible set design, but most important, you can feel this, it's dramatic, and that's what I love the most, for me this is the best lego Star Wars stop motion ever, I can't wait to see more
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really wanted to take a more dramatic approach with this one and have it carry a very somber meloncholy song. Luke is battling with himself as much as the inquisitor. He has to live with the fact that he's the one responsible for his friends' deaths while keeping his emotions in balance 🙏
The choreography and the way you handled the animation was amazing
Thank you very much Max
Bro this is awesome, the fighting scenes where perfect
Thank you very much 👍
Your lightsaber choreography is some of the best I’ve ever seen in stopmotion. This is truly dankmotion right here Dave
😃😃😃
Absolutely amazing
Much appreciated, my friend 🙏
This was outstanding
Some of the best fight choreography in a brickfilm I’ve ever seen
Thanks so much! Glad you liked it! 👍
well done this is so smooth this is just a 10/10 stop motion well done I really need to start making a stop motion as good as this my goodness
Thank you my friend! Believe in yourself and you can achieve wonderful things!
This was so beautiful 😭😭
Thank you!
Brooooo this is insane😭😭😭 the choreography is just amazing dude great job
Thanks so much!!!
Fantastic lightsaber dual and effects!!!
Thank you very much!
Well done, brother. You and Drafter things put out an amazing video 💥 I watched this over and over again! 🔥
Also, W Rachel Voice Acting ✨️😎
Thanks big man. I was quite proud with how this one turned out, but I had SO much more stuff planned. Im glad people still like it anyways tho 🗿
@dankmotionsstudios5161 I totally get it, man. 🙏 Still, amazing work! 😄 I'm glad you're still proud of it!
THIS IS THE BEST BRICKFILM I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY 5 MONTHS OF ANIMATION!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! You have earned a sub!!! Can’t wait to see what other epic things you make in the future!!!!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words 🫡
THAT.... WAS.... AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! bro the fight choriography was top notch and the animation was SO SMOOTH and it all just looked so goooood. probably my new favorite brickfilm
Im glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!!! 👍👍👍
Unbelievably impressive fight chorography!
Thank you!
Yo, this is so hype! Loved every bit of it.
Im glad to hear 😂
This is sooo good! The vfx, choreography, the action, the music, the smoothness omg!!!!!!
Happy to hear you enjoyed 😉
This is crazyyy!!! Love it!
👍👍👍
Best lightsaber duel I’ve ever seen in a Brickfilm
Prove me wrong
I appreciate all the love for my film lol. Glad you enjoyed it!!! 👍
2:17 the bad guys lightsaber is fire
this gives luke way more justice than disney ever could, absolutely stunning animation, deserves alot more views
I really wanted to show off Luke in his prime. Like, his *actual* prime. Im glad you enjoyed the animation!
good stuff! i love that one shot where he is running twards the stormtrooper with the reverse grip
Copied Starkiller with that move lol
This is absolutely magnificent and hands down the best Star Wars animation I've seen in years. Great work, man.
Thank you so much 😀
Absolutely incredible! Would love to be able to get to that sort of level one day
Just gotta get on that grind and practice
Great job on this Dank. I know I have seen it frame-by-frame 10s of times but always amazed by your choreography, action and 'flow'
Thanks so much Dafter! You carried this animation hard with your VFX lol. It wouldn't have been the same without!
That was such a good lightsaber fight :O
Yippee!!!
Wow, the action is so fluid and smooth!!🔥 amazing work
Thanks so much!!
Smooth and phenomenal animation 👌
😃👍👍👍
this is porobably the best stop motion fan film i have seen! you did an amaxing job. i respect everyone whon does stop motion
whether it be an official movie likje empire strikes back or for fun like this!
i did stop motion as a kiid a few times and sucked at it but this was phenomenol
Thanks so much! I hope to do stopmotion more professionally someday, lol
I just got some major deja vu during one of the kill sequences from a really old stop motion of starkiller. Nice touch.
The original animator (FancyPants) was great at choreography and cinematography, and I took a bit of inspiration from him. Glad you noticed 🙂👍
Well, Hot Damn! That was phenomenal!
Thanks!!!
Dang man, I dissapear from your channel for like 2 years and come back to this... Dang man
Im glad you decided to check up! A lot can change in 2 years 👍
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 How did you get so good???
Well, I've had 8 years of practice. The past 3 Ive actually had the resources to hone my skills more effectively. Its all just about practice and learning new techniques.
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 That's amazing dude! I can definitely see a big difference!
bro that fancy pants reference. You got a subscriber
YES!!! SOMEONE NOTICED!!! This is a mega W in the book
A Jedi’s fury can be scarier than a Sith’s
The light side takes a lot more discipline and practice. The dark side is an easy tap into power without the proper refinement to be adequately put to good use
This was incredible, some of the best lightsaber combat I’ve seen on a stop motion, keep up the good work!
Glad you enjoyed it! Was quite fun to animate 👍
Holy mother of God!! This was by far one of the top 3 best Star Wars animations I have ever seen!! Keep up this good work!
Thank you my friend!
Dank with the fire animations
🔥
This is incredible! I love how it shows Luke’s true power!
Thanks! Luke has taken a back seat in modern SW Lore, and I wanted to do him justice 🙏
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 no problem, that’s what I like to hear!
This is the first time it hit me that Luke actually killed people. In the official SW media they're always shown as just dying and then that's it, but that was just as brutal as Vader was.
Good job on hitting me so hard, in a brickfilm, which I watched with the sound off! (Got to return with headphones though :D)
I'd say it's honesty better without audio. The dialogue is a bit cringe... Im glad you enjoyed though!
This was amazing man! 🔥
Thanks 🔥
The fight is really great, 🤩👏
Gyatt DAMNN
Stunning fight scene! Among the best I’ve seen! Just subbed!
Thank you so much!!!
Dang the fight scene is on top notch
@@Rhan_Hilfi thank you!
Dude I love the animation and effects as much as anybody but seriously the short story and the dialogue is amazingly well written, and I saw that bit of fight choreography from darth maul vs obi wan or was is Kwai gon I forgot. Nice
Thanks a lot! None of this was based on the duel of the fates lol. I used other inspirations other than obi wan & qui gon
Very nice vid!
Thanks!
Sheeeeesh! Thats all i have to say
That will suffice lol
Gooooood, good... let the hate flow
RAHHHHH 🗣💥✨️
On golly 😭
This is some force unleashed type shit 🔥
The kids got talent
Hey man, Ima be 19 this coming October. Im already a legal adult 🗿
This is epic!
This is so good!
Glad you think so! 👍
This is awesome
Thank you so much
Underrated
Give it time lol
Kudos to the Inquisitor for surviving for more than 2 seconds
Legends Luke would have cooked him. Unfortunately, I wanted to do something entertaining that lasted for more than 2 seconds 😅
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 fair lol
1:56 Was this in reference to SmashyPants Force Unleashed Stop motion vid????? Tell me I'm not the only one seeing this!!!! :D
FancyPants choreography is legendary and I absolutely love his lightsaber duels. His camera work as well. Wonder if he'll ever see this some day. Glad you noticed!!! 👍
fire vid bro
AMAZING FILM. But for a split second I read “ a jedi’s furry”
NOOOOO bro did not😱💀💀💀😭😭😭
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 sadly I did. But amazing stop motion
The title is an oxymoron lol
Also this is awesome, i particularly like the vfx
Lol thanks
Dave is cooking
yooo that's sick
JUST WOW dave you have improved soooo muchhhh!! your animation has always been so good, but this is spectacular like beautiful stuff bro! felt like watching a movie! so well done bro! also did you get dragonframe or something?
Nope lol. Im still editing on my phone 🗿
Thank you very much for the kind words. Im glad you think I've improved. I wanted this to be the best lightsaber duel Ive done yet, so I went and found a bunch of inspiration and then got myself motivated to animate the duel of the century. It was originally supposed to be a way bigger and more drawn out lore, but lack of motivation & time hindered my abilities. It ended up just being a short little animation 👉👈
shot little animation? man this is one of the most goated thing! howd you do the mouth animation?@@dankmotionsstudios5161
Uhhhhhhhh 😴
Cool
Very reminiscent of Fancy Pants’ Force Unleashed stop motion, with some of the camera work and angles
Also, what program do you use for the lightsaber effects?
Fancy Pants is a huge inspiration! I believe Blender ane After effects were used for the vfx 🙏
Delicious
😀
Is he some type of inquisitor
Yes
1:53 Poor stormtrooper :(
This was impressively animated. Just wish there was a bit of reflection at the end. Luke giving into his anger is acceptable from a narrative perspective, but it shouldn't go unremarked upon. It's always been his Achilles' heel. A character flaw that he spends his life overcoming. Just seems like you're glorifying it. That nitpick aside, this was impressively done.
I AGREE!!! Man, I was just so burnt out by the time I finished the fight scene, I just wanted the animation to end 😭😭😭
I really agree with you, and he definitely should have reflected on his actions and shown guilt for exploiting the dark side. Giving in to emotion isn't something Luke would be proud of as a Jedi, so you are quite right. Thank you for the feedback!!!
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 Thanks for responding! It’s super cool to know we’re on the same page. I do wanna do stress that literally everything else about this was top notch. Genuinely haven’t seen a stop motion lightsaber duel this dynamic and expressively animated before. Incredible work
I appreciate that! As a pretty hardcore Star Wars fan myself, I'd really like to get as much stuff right as possible, but there's really only so much I can do with the resources I have & a finite amount of motivation & time to get stuff done lol.
My main inspiration for animation is the music that I know will accompany the piece I'm working on. I really enjoyed the score from RotJ "A Jedi's Fury," & I wanted to incorporate that song into an animation. That's where my inspiration for this brickfilm came from 😃
1:58. same move starkiller made in another lego video on youtube
It was a Fancy Pants reference lol
Great work! Keep up the hard work! Can't wait to see the next one! :D Also just subbed to your channel as well! :D Where'd you get that custom Inquisitor minifigure from? Can't wait for you to tell me! :D
Thanks for watching! The inquisitor figure isn't really anything special, honestly. The body is just one of those imperial dudes who opperate the deathstar controls, and the head piece is from a really old set that I dont recall building. I just had the piece laying around so I decided to use it 🗿
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 Oh ok! :D Btw what kind of stop motion will you be doing next?
I have another project in the oven I've been working on. Its the next in a series of Halo Red vs Blue videos. I have a playlist with all the videos in chronological order if you wanna catch up before the next ep drops 🗿
Brug i thought i commented if you still animate please do a anakin vs count dooku animation it would go crazy
Best SW I've seen since Disney ruined it. (except Luke's brief return in Mando)
Thanks!!! It hasn't all been bad. All the newest stuff since the sequels (excluding Book of Boba, Kenobi, and Mando s3) has been good. Andor and the previous Mandalorian seasons have been good in my opinion. I've also been enjoying Ahsoka. Rogue One was also a phenomenal star wars film guided by Disney.
How many fps do you animate???
15 fps 👍
Badass
😃
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 maybe you can do one with Luke and Ashoka taking down an imperial warlord with a new republic ground force.
YOOOOOO thats an AWESOME idea!!! I should totally do that some day
Did this actually happen in the Star Wars lore, or is it your own idea? Either way, this brickfilm is awesome 👌
This was something I wrote up myself lol. Thanks for the watch! 👍
@@dankmotionsstudios5161 dang! Love the original stuff!
What type of Sith Lord is that
An inquisitor that survived the imperial civil war. He rose to power after a void in leadership was left by the 2 sith lord controlling the empire
HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!
Yay
Like father like son.
Who is this guy
Who