Watch ILM Recreate the Dying Star Trench Run Out of Digital Gingerbread

Simply in time for the vacations, Star Wars is celebrating in model with a cutesy recreation of the enduring Dying Star trench run from A New Hope rendered as if it was painstakingly made out of gingerbread. However a easy festive candy deal with, this ain’t: it’s the primary in a volley of shorts for a new animated miniseries, Star Wars Minis.

Lucasfilm has launched the primary of the shorts, a short side-by-side comparability of the ditch run sequences from the unique Star Wars with the gingerbread recreation. It’s very cute, from the gingerbread cameos of Luke, Han, and Vader, to the gumdrop proton torpedoes fired to destroy the battle station (which blows up with a suitably cute cookie aftershock ring).

However the quick is absolutely only a herald for a brand new collection of equally ideated shorts referred to as Star Wars Minis, which can be much less festively inclined. An accompanying behind-the-scenes video from ILM frames the brand new shorts a collection of the way to discover beloved moments from throughout Star Wars movie and TV in new types and supplies, using new applied sciences developed by ILM.

Haven’t any concern about “new applied sciences” simply but, within the wake of Disney’s attempts to embrace generative AI earlier than the tech bubble bursts: Star Wars Minis seems to be modelling issues really crafted by ILM first, from printed, chibi-fied fashions of C-3PO and R2-D2 to hand-knitted crochet dolls of Yoda, Grogu, and extra. The latter model positively appears to be the main focus of this teaser, with knitted riffs on a number of scenes from Phantom Menace, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Again, and Return of the Jedi, in addition to The Mandalorian rendered in digital fuzzy felt.

It’s a enjoyable approach to create quick little Star Wars riffs, particularly with enjoyable technological options to ship them on a equally smaller scale.

We’ll see extra from Star Wars Minis in 2026.

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