A Star Wars fan filmmaker has accused Disney of straight copying a battle sequence he created, and re-using it shot-for-shot inside an episode of Star Wars: Visions.
The sequence, together with its battle choreography and digicam angles, seems an identical in a 12-second video posted to Instagram by fan Lorenz Hideyoshi, exhibiting his unofficial work side-by-side with a clip from the Disney+ animated present.
“When Disney blatantly steals your motion design,” reads a caption on the video, which contrasts Visions’ 2023 episode The Bandits of Golak with Hideyoshi’s personal Darkish Jedi: A Star Wars Story, a brief movie he launched in December 1999 by way of YouTube.
“I imply they already had a special weapons setup, however nonetheless managed to brute pressure (push) my choreo onto that motion,” Hideyoshi wrote. “Didn’t even change the digicam angles.”
“Why Disney?” he continued. “Is it as a result of we made a non-profit tribute fan movie of considered one of your IPs and now you are feeling justified in stealing from this pool of artistic output? Possibly both a) pay your animators extra or b) rent an motion designer.”
Whereas Disney owns Star Wars maker LucasFilm, Visions is the work of quite a few animation studios unfold the world over, with this specific episode particularly made by Indian outlet 88 Footage. IGN has contacted Disney for remark.
Final month, a 3rd season of Star Wars: Visions was launched on Disney+, including an extra 9 tales to the anthology collection. Every episode comprises its personal self-contained story set someplace within the Star Wars universe, although the collection will not be handled as official canon.
“As a complete, Star Wars Visions Quantity 3 is the animated collection’ most uneven outing up to now,” IGN wrote in its assessment of the most recent season, awarding it a 6/10.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You may attain Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
