The Candy Wilder film short Anakin's Assignment has been uploaded to Atom Films as our official entry for this year's Atom.com Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge. Two years in the making and our most technically complex film project to date. With both mechanical effects and CGI. I scratch built the mechanism to move the model cars through the model city and rewired a 1980's kid's toy computer (The Pineapple 5K) to control the action and everything worked like a charm. My wife Candy and I worked like dogs building and painting everything you see in the film. From Millie's apartment to the restaurant, and the model city and cars. Many of the props and scenery are constructed from paper mache` and others like the light saber were made to be screen accurate with the Lucas films. After taking ill and being bed ridden for about three months at the first of 2011 I had only a week to build the Yoda puppet and drew on my Bunraku experience to complete him in time. We created a lot of 2D and Go-motion animation in this film giving the picture a unique universe for our players to inhabit.
This 22 minute film features Jack Ritchie as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker, assigned to assist irrepressible college girl Millie Bjorklund (Courtney Knight). Acting as her 'big brother,' he clashes with Millie frequently, especially concerning her wretched boyfriend Alan (Steffan Muntsinger.) This film has Comedy, Intrigue, an epic battle of Good versus Evil, unique special effects, an animated model city with nifty cars, and of course lots of Star Wars stuff!
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May the Farce be with you,
Fred
