Introduction

Star Wars Roll Out is a web series created for StarWarsKids.com and the StarWarsKids YouTube channel, with the first episode premiering on 09 August 2019.

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Outline

The shorts depict the main characters from the franchise as ball-shaped, similar to BB-8, and utilise a kid-friendly cutout animation style.

Production

In 2017, Japanese animator Hideo Itoyanagi created a recap animation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens intended for the local audience, which used versions of the movie’s characters made to resemble BB-8 in their shape and way they moved. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy became a big fan of the animation and its director, and when she came to Japan in December of 2017 to promote Star Wars: The Last Jedi, she met up with Itoyanagi and asked him to create original shorts in the same style as the original recap.

Itoyanagi wanted to come up with something new to the animated world of Star Wars. His intention was to make the world look like simple caricatured paper-cutout silhouettes put on top of each other. He also compared the camera movements to those which could be seen in old video games. Building on top of his original recap shorts, the new animations would utilise the roundness, tilting, spinning and rolling movements of the characters to tell the story and create humour.

Star Wars: Rollout Series

• Series 01 (2019-2020).

• Overview of the Star Wars Franchise.
• Overview of Star Wars Films.
• Overview of Star Wars Parodies.
• Overview of Star Wars TV Series.
• Overview of Star Wars Documentary Series.
• Overview of LEGO Star Wars.

Production & Filming Details

• Creator(s): Hideo Itoyanagi.
• Director(s): Hideo Itoyanagi.
• Producer(s): James Waugh.
• Writer(s): Hideo Itoyanagi.
• Distributor(S): YouTube.
• Release Date: 09 August 2019 to 01 April 2020.
• Running Time: 2-3 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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