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I left my Death Star in San Francisco

Here's a really cool short video, done by Star Wars fan Michael Horn, of various Star Wars vehicles participating in "Imperial Fleet Week" in San Francisco. Horn says he "shot everything on my junkie DV camera, did motion-tracking and comping in After Effects, and basic sound design in Final Cut."

MAKE pal Bonnie Burton did a brief interview with Horn on The Official Star Wars Blog.

[via Laughing Squid]

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Posted by: Jack on August 16, 2008 at 12:19 AM

Wow

I can enthusiastically say that's one of the coolest little videos I've seen. I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, but this was very well done.

I love the fact that because the things don't actually exist in real life, everyone in the video appears to be completely comfortable with huge spaceships and aircraft and such flying/walking among them, as if it's normal life.

I rather wish it was!

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Posted by: Greg on August 16, 2008 at 10:11 AM

What a shame that this fan-created video is cooler and more interesting than everything done in the Star Wars universe for the last 20 years combined.

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Posted by: Adriana on August 16, 2008 at 11:51 AM

Agreed w/ Greg. Excellent job!

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Posted by: MACK on August 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM

AWSOME

freaking awesome

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