✨ Happy Star Wars Day Week everyone! (a bit late to posting this here 😅) ✨
Time to finally give you some updates on the Tukk Tales project and introduce one of its new characters:
Commander Faust of the Coruscant Guard.
More on him soon, but for now I'll let this animation speak for itself. 🫡👀
But why new characters? And where's the short film??
First of all I'm sorry I haven't been great with keeping you all updated in the past! Juggling the project with my freelance work and private life hasn't been easy and I wanted to wait until things have developed further until I make any new announcements, but here's basically what happened:
After the announcement teaser trailer in 2023 completely blew up and I got to see how much love and support there already is for Tukk, his company and the project, I got motivated to push both my storytelling skills and the film itself a lot further, going back and rewriting the whole thing to let us spend more time with these characters and tell a more impactful and memorable story.
Instead of a little one-off 6 minute short (which at the time was still mostly in rough previz stage), it evolved into something closer to a full Clone Wars episode, which I've eventually decided to separate into three mini-episodes, inspired by the beautiful "Tales of" shows from Lucasfilm.
With that expansion also came the need for a lot more characters, designs and assets. And since I'm making all of those from scratch, with hand-painted textures, animator-friendly rigs and screen-accurate details that have to hold up in all kinds of close-ups, I've spent a LOT of time on that part of the process while simultaneously setting up some of the previz animations for the new story.
But an end of that step is in sight and once it is complete, updates will become way more frequent as I'm much faster when it comes to bringing shots from previz to a final stage.
I still can't give a release date yet as it's a no-budget personal project that is happening between client jobs, but it's still going full steam ahead and I'm extremely excited about the new direction it has taken on a while ago.
I'll also be looking for other character animators to bring onto the project later on and help out with some shots, so if you're interested in volunteering, feel free to send me your reel (mail address in my linktree)!
That's it for now, more character reveals soon (and no, they won't all be clones 🗡️🥸)!
Few days ago @highgroundanimations posted this amazing video teaser-introducing a new character Commander Faust for his exciting animated 'CloneWars' themed series Tukk Tales.
I was composing music for the main character for fun lately, and it was a wonderful coincidence that the author suddenly showed activity after quite the long time. Once a new character was introduced included in a video, my brain was not giving me break and I just had that urge to try to make a soundtrack for it 😁
I know nothing about the character and I know that the music/theme could have been much better but that was the first one my head created looking at this character, so I've put everything asside to create this little thing.
I hope the author doesn't mind and I hope you like it at least a bit 😅
Full music for this character and it's explanation and break-down will be added separatelly later, after I finalize the one for the main character.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Fan Films, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Commander Faust (Tukk Tales), Other Star Wars Characters (Tukk Tales)
Additional Tags: Tukk Tales Shorts, Narrative, Introducing Commander Faust, Fanboys (Star Wars), Humour, Coruscant Guard (Star Wars), crossover (sort of)
Series: Part 8 of Tukk Tales fanfic series
Summary:
A new Commander?
@highgroundanimations thanks for the inspiration once again!!!
