Star Battle

I used to draw a lot of stories comic book style when I was a kid. For some reason Star Battle is the one that survived and continued to have to chapters added to it as I grew up and my art style evolved. Now I've decided to use my current skills as a video editor to animate this first Star Battle tale, a mix of crude childhood drawings and more modern special effects that is probably only amusing to me. Part 2 is about half done and more may follow. About 100 hours of production time went into this short at the rate of about 30 minutes every couple of days over the last year when I had time between full-time work and kids.

Star Battle was obviously inspired in name and in design by Star Wars but also Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Atari games and anything else that went into my consciousness as an 8 year old kid. The base ships all look like the Death Star and the dogfights were inspired by all of the above.