I’ve decided to complement the current love affair I’m having with D&D with a little Star Wars gaming. I’ve been a huge fan of the SW RPG for years, from the days of the old West End Game version of the game, and having played Saga Edition at Gencon reminded me of what a fun setting SW is.
So, I’m going to run a campaign. I’m not going to complicate my life however, and I’m just going to run the Dawn of Defiance campaign that WOTC has put out. It’s free, long, and will do just fine. I’m also thinking of running it as an RPGA game, just to get my feet wet with that whole side of DM’ing.
Anyway, I went ahead and created an opening scroll for the first adventure. I plan to show it to the players before we begin our first session just to get in the Star Wars mood. Pardon the crudeness of the graphics there at the end, but I’m not a computer animator, I did the best I could.
If you are having problems viewing youtube videos on Firefox (as I was), let me direct you to this link. It fixed my issues that I’d been having, in general, not just with this video.
So anyway, here it is… The opening scroll for Star Wars: Dawn of Defiance Episode 1 – The Traitor’s Gambit
EDIT: The last word is “burn”, not “bum”. The font is too close together. But if you want to read it as “bum”, go ahead! As in “Rebellion is bumming Palpatine out…” whatever…
Piers
August 26, 2009
The first sparks of rebellion have begun to *bum*?
newbiedm
August 26, 2009
It says *burn* but the font is too close together… I’m not going to rerender it… screw it… they’ve begun to bum, yes…
wrathofzombie
August 26, 2009
lol. Wow. I love when a campaign starts with a bum;) Awesome scroll though! What did you use to do that?
I love Star Wars games!
Daniel M. Perez, The Gamer Traveler
August 26, 2009
Wicked, dude. Just wicked.
newbiedm
August 26, 2009
The entire animation was built using Adobe After Effects.
The starfield, with the planet and the space station was built it photoshop, then just added into after effects.
Alex Schroeder
August 26, 2009
This is cool!
Stargazer
August 26, 2009
Damn, now I want to play Star Wars again! 😦
By the way, what tools did you use to create this video?
Manny
August 26, 2009
I am pumped..hmmm jedi or scoundrel?
Thunderforge
August 26, 2009
If you’re on a Mac, you should look into the Star Wars Title Screen Generator (http://alienryderflex.com/crawl/). Type your text for the Fox logo, the Lucasfilm logo, the blue text, and all the yellow text and have it render a professional title screen with hardly any effort on your part.
xerosided
August 26, 2009
That’s really cool!
awmyhr
August 27, 2009
Hello, finally got a chance to stop by. ‘Tis kewl indeed. I like how you did the pan to the station and the planet at the end. I was thinking of doing that for mine, but I got all wrapped up in looking for “perfect” 3-d models that I could use w/Blender (which I don’t know how to use) and gave it up. Maybe I’ll revisit it and do something along these lines. Hmm…
By the way, my offer to run it through the Mac program for you stands if you want to do so in the future. I think I’ll finish off the ones I started (the first four DoD) and upload them to YouTube anyway. I just checked and didn’t realize I had so many views for the first one (http://www.youtube.com/awmyhr).
by_the_sword
December 12, 2009
Years ago when I ran a Star Wars campaign I took a marker and wrote my “opening scroll” onto a roll of toilet paper. Then I would play the theme music and slowly roll the “scroll” between two hands so the players could read it.
The first time i did this they laughed their asses off. After that it got old quick.