Really awesome work. Followed you from the beginning. Very cool to see how you progressed. Animation really reminds me of that 70's movie, Wizards. Well done.
When I clicked on the thumbnail, I expected some satirical/spoof-like material. Instead I was greeted with the dramatized books on tape I used to listen to as a kid. This sent me back to what Star Wars used to be. Dark Empire, Crimson Empire, Tales of the Jedi, the Kyle Katarn trilogy... Please keep up the awesome work and May the Force Be With You!
I just realize dthe audio's from the Audiodrama. No wonder it was so good! RIP John Cygan, he may be most known for Canderous Ordo, but he was *fantastic* as Luke and Ulic too!
AMAZING! You did the impossible! You captured the essence of Cam Kennedy's magnificent artwork, while at the same time making the overall vision your own!
I love the combination of the art from the comics, the holiday special, Droids, and Ewoks and yall own style! This is the perfect love letter to Star Wars fans!
I will always keep coming back to this project. Dark Empire’s art style is so distinct that is seems impossible to capture in animation, and yet you’ve done so! I pity those who haven’t yet come across your work, they’re missing out!
I’m 44 and remember when this originally came out as a graphic novel. I still have them and re-read them from time to time. You’ve done an amazing job and wanted to praise you for it!
Thank you for this! My favorite EU story of all time. The animation and color palettes take great inspiration from the comics!and the voices are so on point! 1000/10 can't say enough good things about this! Please continue!
Wow, this made my day. Love how the scenes are taken right from the pages of the comic. Especially when we get that first close up of Luke's face. I remember reading this as a youth and thinking "Wow, he's so much more than the farm boy he used to be." Funny enough, this was actually my introduction into the Expanded Universe. I admit to having watched an older sibling play Dark Forces on his PC just long enough to realize I wasn't getting a turn, but in terms of my own personal active exploration, this is where I became an EU diehard fan. Thanks for bringing that experience to life with this animation, I hope you keep up the work!
You have made the best fan film of all time and honestly it's better than what Disney is putting out for the most part. Thank you for creating this. I've been following you for years now and i can't believe the journey is over. This series blew me away from the first episode. It made me feel like a kid watching a saturday morning cartoon. Thank you again for giving us all this gift.
Mate, this is incredible. Dark Empire is still my favourite Star Wars comic - Cam Kennedy's work is absolutely iconic. I like that you've taken your own path with this. And this is a triumphant achievement. Phenomenal work!
I have this exact story on a 4 cassette box set. I loved hearing my cassettes over and over again. Now I can actually see what this movie would have looked like. Thank you. Cannot wait to see your version of Part 2 of this adventure.
The animations are way better than in StarTrek TAS in my humble opinion. (Modern technology really comes in handy) The 3D spaceship animations with the comic textures look so cool. The voice actors did a really great job. This is an astonishing piece of work! I love it! 😅
I’m not very well and I’m so happy that I lived to see this , as I child I read dark empire and as many others I dreamed of this movie one day , what we got is more then enough compared to what Disney did to our dreams
I could tell you were learning as you went. The characters in the beginning looked crude, almost comical, especially Han. But by the middle they all looked great. As an old SW fan who saw the original in 1977 when I was 12, it's great to see something like this. Keep it up.
The character models and voices are all convincing. I used to read through the old novels multiple times, but at this point those have nearly become lost media. I'm glad someone is keeping them alive!
I still don't know what to think of the fact of using the emperors design resembling that awful movie, but I can safely say this at least brings a smile to my fan loving heart... I hope you can make the other parts one day...
And the eys… those simple black eyes with the black strokes for eyebrows… instantly transported me: they can't not be anything else but based on the vintage action figures.
Single-handedly annihilated the abomination that is Disney Star Wars. Would love to see this animations style applied to the “If Star Wars Episode 7,8,9 where awesome” series of videos by PRISM
Among other things, the 'rubbery' droids are definitely a throwback & homage to the Nelvana cartoons (Star Wars Special, Droids) . Kind of silly to see as an adult, but the nostalgia it provokes is just too much!
im now 50 grew up my whole life with star wars when this came to america my lcs got a few sets of the dark horse uk over sized magazines and i got some of those ... thank you for those memories
When Luke shows up and the Dark Side theme played it sent a chill down my spine. Dark Empire was my first Dark Horse Star Wars graphic novel I got as a kid. I read that thing over and over until the binding fell apart. This is beautiful work brought a tear to my eye with nostalgic joy. So well done thank you MTFBWY
I really hope Star Wars Theory sees this, adores and loves it, and helps it blow up past 1 million views. This is by far better than most of what Disney has produced in the last 12 years. Proof that Legends never die! Thank you so much for all of your incredibly hard work and I really hope to see more soon!
@@Hylanvahr He could have billions of subscribers and I wouldn't care, he's a shit channel with shitty takes. There are much better ways to go viral than getting featured by that hack.
I read the whole graphic novel of this as a local comic book store a completely blew me away I was hoping they would make an animated one and it did and also thank you and May the force be with you❤❤❤❤
Im from Ecuador, and i follow you since the first episode, for me this is canon, no the other bull….t this is like star wars really is. Thank u so much
Two thumbs up! I absolutely love this! The unique style of the animation and use of ! This such a wonderfully fresh approach to telling this story color ! Please make more you have a subscriber, and a fan!
This work is amazing! The best sequel of the trilogy. A great job, with nostalgia for the animations of the Holiday Special and Droids. I eagerly await more episodes!
I recognized the audio from the radio drama. I just found my cassettes for Dark Empire 1&2. This was brilliant! Thank you for doing it and sharing. It’s so appreciated.
In my experience. When creators upload this sort of thing, especially when it's unfinished, that usually means there isn't going to be any more. I'm glad that's not the case here👍Will go on supporting you my guy!
Honestly the tilted script in the beginning was a genius move in star wars because it gave the viewers time to read it all instead of it going straight up and disappearing from screen.
This was better than it had anybright to be, legends cannon is the best cannon. Lando VA sounds just like Billy Dee Williams, great job. No wonder it sounds like billy dee, its him from the audio books.
This is so awesome & seems to take the best parts of the comic & have an animation style that looks like it came from the people who did official SW cartoons. Thank you so very much for making this! 25:47 is amazing😀!
Still a far superior Emperor Palpatine intro and explanation than Rise of Skywalker can ever hope for. How is this even better than Rise of Skywalker....? Ooooh that's right, it's made by people who actually give a crap about the source material. Fantastic work here..... well done. :)
Obvs, as a labour of love this gets a huge 👍🏼, if ur gona nitpick (an sum ppl will) then sure, it has visual consistency, editing and v.o. issues aplenty - but why nitpick? After maybe 25 seconds of scrutiny, all I felt was the tingling rush of a1991 fever dream wherein all my childhood post-jedi imaginings sprung to life on a comics page. Can't wait fer more of this, truly. 🎥👌🏽🎬💙🙏
Haha I feel you. It’s been years in the making and I’ve gotten much better over time, so the urge to go back and re-make the early stuff is strong, but if I did that I’d never finish the project
Wow! Just Wow!! Thank you!! Just thank you for the goosebumps! Every EU novel must be made asap! It’s even got a Heavy Metal vibe to it too! I love it! MTFBWY
Ohh man, comic brought to life in animation! Yeeehoooo! Didn't want it to end! This is the kind of stuff that should have been adapted into the big screen.
I've been following your channel since you announced this project, and throughout it, I've watched your skill as an animator sharply improve, and I see it again here as the episode progresses. From humble beginnings copying the Holiday Special art style (bold move, gotta say), to outright brilliant storyboarding and shot composition decisions, and a firm grasp on movement; had me genuinely shocked how good you got. You're probably the only RUclipsr I've watched who I can honestly say I'm proud of. I'm proud of you, bro. Keep animating. This is a turning point. Don't stop here. Great things are coming.
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If you’d like more animations, best way to support me is by sharing this around!
I have many more stories I’d love to bring to life with animation!
This is the way 👍👍👍
Really awesome work. Followed you from the beginning. Very cool to see how you progressed. Animation really reminds me of that 70's movie, Wizards. Well done.
I’ll definitely be joining your Patreon!!! Need more indie animation on RUclips
Guys PLEASE share this with StarWarsTheory and CriticalDrinker and AngryJoe. Long live the Rebellion
amazing work man! the movie is great I can't wait to see more from your project that's been a passion of yours for over 6 years.
That Lando voice actor is FANTASTIC
Billy dee Williams Himself
The voices are from the Dark Empire audio drama from 1994. That is Billy Dee Williams.
@@Fardawg Oh hahaha. That makes sense. I couldn't believe how good it was.
@@Fardawgthanks! Seems like that should be in the post description-
@@tenchimyo If you haven't listened to the Audiobooks of the Dark Emp 1, Dark Emp 2, and Empire's End... You should :)
I love this! I feel like I’m watching old 1960’s Saturday morning cartoons like Johnny Quest.
This is incredible
Appreciate it!
DANANANANA NANANANANIT
Did you know the original title of Star Wars was Blue Harvest?
@@MarkMarxonsBassChannel yes. Yes, we all knew.
You guys have to do a review for this on your channel, this is amazing.
As a teen, I could only imagine how this could be filmed... You made a 31 year old man feel like a kid again... Thank you, Master. *bows*
40 year old: You are still a kido
My mom: Rookies
Same here
You are a kid, this made a 52 year old happy too 😂
I’m 38 and thinking the same thing😂🤦♂️
U weren’t even old enough to see ep 123 when they came out lol
This is where the fun begins
Thanks!
I didn’t think anyone could recover the long lost ‘Star Wars’ feel at this point, but this brought me all the way back to the glory days ❤
It is in Fan Animations we must put our trust. The Force is strong with this.
Really happy to see the Expanded Universe still has life thanks to projects like yours! It's been awesome following this fan film's creation!
Thank you!
Remind me of the Christmas Special Boba Fett animation style but in a good way
This animation style is like the old Star Wars holiday special meets Ralph Bakshi and it's very nostalgic. 😊
Holiday Speecial meets Ralph Bakshi meets Gendy Tartakovsky. Truly amazing, made me feel like Star Wars used to before the dark times...
Bakshi meets TV Funhouse... With damn good voice work!
Ewoks? Droids? No! This, THIS, is the kind of Star Wars series we wanted back in the 80s!
Droids was a pretty great show, big inspiration for the look in goin for
George Lucas wanted to sell toys.
Oh come on, Droids and Ewoks were really cool shows too Lol
@@SpikeyTortoise I kind of got more of a Christmas Special Animated Sequence vibe... AWESOME JOB!!
@@SpikeyTortoiseI noticed where the Inspiration for Your Animation Style came from The SECOND I Saw 3PO
When I clicked on the thumbnail, I expected some satirical/spoof-like material. Instead I was greeted with the dramatized books on tape I used to listen to as a kid. This sent me back to what Star Wars used to be. Dark Empire, Crimson Empire, Tales of the Jedi, the Kyle Katarn trilogy... Please keep up the awesome work and May the Force Be With You!
Finally good Star Wars. This feels like reuniting with an old friend after 20 years apart.
True
I just realize dthe audio's from the Audiodrama. No wonder it was so good! RIP John Cygan, he may be most known for Canderous Ordo, but he was *fantastic* as Luke and Ulic too!
AMAZING! You did the impossible! You captured the essence of Cam Kennedy's magnificent artwork, while at the same time making the overall vision your own!
Animation is hard and isn't appreciated as much as it should be. Continue adapting one of the best Star Wars stories of all time.
Appreciate it
Best Star Wars content since the original trilogy, Rogue One. Mando season 1 and 2, and Andor.
Loved the animation and the story! Looking forward to more from you.
This was much better than what we got from Disney.
I love the combination of the art from the comics, the holiday special, Droids, and Ewoks and yall own style! This is the perfect love letter to Star Wars fans!
I will always keep coming back to this project. Dark Empire’s art style is so distinct that is seems impossible to capture in animation, and yet you’ve done so! I pity those who haven’t yet come across your work, they’re missing out!
Couldn't agree more!
I see a lot of visual influences from Holiday Special cartoon, Droids and Clone Wars miniseries.
@@juliuszhorst8083Also Heavy Metal and Bakshi's rotoscoping
I’m 44 and remember when this originally came out as a graphic novel. I still have them and re-read them from time to time. You’ve done an amazing job and wanted to praise you for it!
Someone give this man the budget of an avatar movie!!! I loved every second of this and need more ASAP!!!
Love Dark Empire, the designs are amazing.
Appreciate it!
Thank you for this! My favorite EU story of all time. The animation and color palettes take great inspiration from the comics!and the voices are so on point! 1000/10 can't say enough good things about this! Please continue!
The voices are from the Dark Empire audio drama from 1994.
Just one more thing to gush about, the music for this is exceptional. Bravo to the composer, really outstanding work.
IMpressive, most impressive.
Thanks!
@@SpikeyTortoise you're welcome
Wow, this made my day. Love how the scenes are taken right from the pages of the comic. Especially when we get that first close up of Luke's face. I remember reading this as a youth and thinking "Wow, he's so much more than the farm boy he used to be." Funny enough, this was actually my introduction into the Expanded Universe. I admit to having watched an older sibling play Dark Forces on his PC just long enough to realize I wasn't getting a turn, but in terms of my own personal active exploration, this is where I became an EU diehard fan. Thanks for bringing that experience to life with this animation, I hope you keep up the work!
You could say Palpatine was... re-ANIMATED.
...... some how.......
😂You win! 🏆 🎉
This is huge. Thank you so much for doing this and I hope we'll be seeing the next part soon.
You have made the best fan film of all time and honestly it's better than what Disney is putting out for the most part.
Thank you for creating this. I've been following you for years now and i can't believe the journey is over.
This series blew me away from the first episode. It made me feel like a kid watching a saturday morning cartoon. Thank you again for giving us all this gift.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hope you’ll stick around for all the new content even though it won’t be starwars related
Mate, this is incredible. Dark Empire is still my favourite Star Wars comic - Cam Kennedy's work is absolutely iconic. I like that you've taken your own path with this. And this is a triumphant achievement. Phenomenal work!
Thanks for keeping the story alive for the real fans.
I have this exact story on a 4 cassette box set. I loved hearing my cassettes over and over again. Now I can actually see what this movie would have looked like. Thank you. Cannot wait to see your version of Part 2 of this adventure.
The animations are way better than in StarTrek TAS in my humble opinion. (Modern technology really comes in handy)
The 3D spaceship animations with the comic textures look so cool.
The voice actors did a really great job.
This is an astonishing piece of work!
I love it! 😅
As a SW fan, this is a very appreciated labor of love! Thank you for making this. It reminded me of when I first read the comic circa 1994!
I’m not very well and I’m so happy that I lived to see this , as I child I read dark empire and as many others I dreamed of this movie one day , what we got is more then enough compared to what Disney did to our dreams
What’s The Issue. Hope You Get Better
Outstanding! This makes me want to break out the comics I have in storage.
Well done!
I could tell you were learning as you went. The characters in the beginning looked crude, almost comical, especially Han. But by the middle they all looked great.
As an old SW fan who saw the original in 1977 when I was 12, it's great to see something like this. Keep it up.
The character models and voices are all convincing. I used to read through the old novels multiple times, but at this point those have nearly become lost media. I'm glad someone is keeping them alive!
The voices are from the Dark Empire audio drama from 1994.
This is PROPER Star Wars! Brilliant!
When I read this book back in the day I wanted dark empire movies so bad ,dark empire story line will always be the true sequels
Bless ur soul this work - it's fantastic!
Wow you can really see the progress made with the animation through this, it's actually really impressive how much you managed to improve.
Thanks! That’s a big part of why I felt like posting this
Holy crap, im just a few min in and it's giving major christmas special boba fett cartoon vibes. I LOVE THIS
I still don't know what to think of the fact of using the emperors design resembling that awful movie, but I can safely say this at least brings a smile to my fan loving heart... I hope you can make the other parts one day...
This is what I wanted from Disney. This feels like Star Wars to me. I absolutely love it.
Great job. The character look is goofy, but it's made with a love of Star Wars that's very deep apparently. Great job. 👍
Nice to discover the backstory of that last Rogue Squadron mission
Looking forward to next chapter.
The first five minutes, alone, are better than the Disney Sequel Trilogy. Great job with the animations and voice acting!
Voice acting is via audio drama from 90s
Amazing! I can't believe that they included the weird green space rabbit tho'.
Woo! Love seeing indie animators on RUclips, I’ll be joining your Patreon!
Thank you! Every patron member is deeply appreciated, helps keep the lights on over here!
And the eys… those simple black eyes with the black strokes for eyebrows… instantly transported me: they can't not be anything else but based on the vintage action figures.
Single-handedly annihilated the abomination that is Disney Star Wars.
Would love to see this animations style applied to the “If Star Wars Episode 7,8,9 where awesome” series of videos by PRISM
Dude, if he ever did that, i would totally love voicing songs characters!
I love how the animation/art-style is inspired by Nelvana's Star Wars Cartoons, with a sprinkling of Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series.
Among other things, the 'rubbery' droids are definitely a throwback & homage to the Nelvana cartoons (Star Wars Special, Droids) . Kind of silly to see as an adult, but the nostalgia it provokes is just too much!
I literally listened to the entire audiodrama about a month ago at work. Glad you finished this.
This made me feel like I was in a movie theater watching the latest Star Wars movie! Well done and thank you!
im now 50 grew up my whole life with star wars when this came to america my lcs got a few sets of the dark horse uk over sized magazines and i got some of those ... thank you for those memories
Amazing job, congratulations and thank u for sharing. This is truly a new hope. May the Force be with you, always!!!
Wow, how did I catch this almost immediately!!! Great work!!!!
Thank you!
I thought I was done with Star Wars! I can't believe how excited this makes me feel.
Thank you so much for this!!!
When Luke shows up and the Dark Side theme played it sent a chill down my spine. Dark Empire was my first Dark Horse Star Wars graphic novel I got as a kid. I read that thing over and over until the binding fell apart. This is beautiful work brought a tear to my eye with nostalgic joy. So well done thank you MTFBWY
I really hope Star Wars Theory sees this, adores and loves it, and helps it blow up past 1 million views. This is by far better than most of what Disney has produced in the last 12 years. Proof that Legends never die! Thank you so much for all of your incredibly hard work and I really hope to see more soon!
he will, i have no doubt
Lol who gives a shit what Star Wars Theory thinks
@@starwarsnerd100 Anyone who wants to gain exposure for their Star Wars content and millions of Star Wars fans all over the world.
@@Hylanvahr He could have billions of subscribers and I wouldn't care, he's a shit channel with shitty takes. There are much better ways to go viral than getting featured by that hack.
This is incredible!
This is an amazing work, a labour of love! I'd given up on Star Wars after what Disney has done with it, but then you've given me… a new hope.
I read the whole graphic novel of this as a local comic book store a completely blew me away I was hoping they would make an animated one and it did and also thank you and May the force be with you❤❤❤❤
Im from Ecuador, and i follow you since the first episode, for me this is canon, no the other bull….t this is like star wars really is. Thank u so much
Two thumbs up! I absolutely love this! The unique style of the animation and use of ! This such a wonderfully fresh approach to telling this story color ! Please make more you have a subscriber, and a fan!
Thanks for keeping the memory of the good old Expanded Universe alive!
Thank you so so much. This is my favorite Star Wars story of all time.
I like the visual additions of things from the prequels and disney era: Battle Droids, U-Wings, MC75, etc.
Luke in his prime.
Leia is about to have an awakening!
And
...
Twins on the way 😢
Twins are already born. This is 10 ABY. Anakin Solo is on the way.
Oh my god??? The voice acting is wonderful all across the board, but that Lando voice? That sounds just like the real deal!
It is, Billy D voiced Lando in Dark Empire audiodrama
@@Hello-bi1pm That’s so cool!!!
The voices are from the 1994 Dark Empire audio drama.
Increadible! Half an hour and its better than thr sequals we got!
This work is amazing! The best sequel of the trilogy. A great job, with nostalgia for the animations of the Holiday Special and Droids. I eagerly await more episodes!
Fantastic work, one of my favourite tales. Love that you merged some of the Droids cartoon designs with that of the comic, really fun to see :D
I recognized the audio from the radio drama. I just found my cassettes for Dark Empire 1&2. This was brilliant! Thank you for doing it and sharing. It’s so appreciated.
Amazing!!!!! I love it!!! Thank you for your effort. I shared with my local Star Wars groups.
In my experience. When creators upload this sort of thing, especially when it's unfinished, that usually means there isn't going to be any more. I'm glad that's not the case here👍Will go on supporting you my guy!
So all the audio is from an earlier project in the 90s?? Way to bring it back!
Honestly the tilted script in the beginning was a genius move in star wars because it gave the viewers time to read it all instead of it going straight up and disappearing from screen.
This is awesome - brings back good memories, of a long time ago and far, far away... when SW was good.
This animation was amazing! It had a Heavy Metal Movie feel to it and it fit perfectly!
Great job!
This was better than it had anybright to be, legends cannon is the best cannon. Lando VA sounds just like Billy Dee Williams, great job.
No wonder it sounds like billy dee, its him from the audio books.
Amazing! Well done, sir! I never listened to the radio drama before, but your animation is so reminscent of the Christmas special. I loved it!
In the animation style of The Holiday Special. Bravo.
Thanks you for making - gonna watch now. Please make more!
Dark Empire- A New Hope.
I See What You Did There
SO GOOD! Star Wars as it is meant to be! Thanks for all your Hard work getting this labor of love to tha real fans!
This is so awesome & seems to take the best parts of the comic & have an animation style that looks like it came from the people who did official SW cartoons. Thank you so very much for making this! 25:47 is amazing😀!
Still a far superior Emperor Palpatine intro and explanation than Rise of Skywalker can ever hope for.
How is this even better than Rise of Skywalker....? Ooooh that's right, it's made by people who actually give a crap about the source material.
Fantastic work here..... well done. :)
Obvs, as a labour of love this gets a huge 👍🏼, if ur gona nitpick (an sum ppl will) then sure, it has visual consistency, editing and v.o. issues aplenty - but why nitpick? After maybe 25 seconds of scrutiny, all I felt was the tingling rush of a1991 fever dream wherein all my childhood post-jedi imaginings sprung to life on a comics page.
Can't wait fer more of this, truly. 🎥👌🏽🎬💙🙏
Haha I feel you. It’s been years in the making and I’ve gotten much better over time, so the urge to go back and re-make the early stuff is strong, but if I did that I’d never finish the project
My father's destiny is my own...
Gosh, that was always my favorite line from the Dark Empire.
I have a feeling George would adore this due to the flash gordan feel.
From Houston, TX.🇨🇱🤠 Sharing with EVERYBODY... Absolutely incredible creation you have here....
Wow! Just Wow!! Thank you!! Just thank you for the goosebumps! Every EU novel must be made asap! It’s even got a Heavy Metal vibe to it too! I love it! MTFBWY
Ohh man, comic brought to life in animation! Yeeehoooo! Didn't want it to end! This is the kind of stuff that should have been adapted into the big screen.
This is amazing work! It is so refreshing to see the Expanded Universe brought to life! Thank you for this!
I've been following your channel since you announced this project, and throughout it, I've watched your skill as an animator sharply improve, and I see it again here as the episode progresses. From humble beginnings copying the Holiday Special art style (bold move, gotta say), to outright brilliant storyboarding and shot composition decisions, and a firm grasp on movement; had me genuinely shocked how good you got.
You're probably the only RUclipsr I've watched who I can honestly say I'm proud of. I'm proud of you, bro. Keep animating. This is a turning point. Don't stop here. Great things are coming.