BLACK

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This article covers a subject from a Star Wars: Visions story that Lucasfilm declared is set in an alternate history within a reimagined galaxy.

"BLACK" is a short film from Volume 3 of the animated television series Star Wars: Visions[1] that premiered on October 29, 2025.[3] It was first announced at Star Wars Celebration in Japan on April 19, 2025.[5] It was produced by David Production[1] "Two of Me, released for BLACK, was released on October 31, 2025.[6]

Official description

A psychedelic battle between past and present, light and dark, and life and death plays out in the haunted psyche of an Imperial trooper who is on the cusp of defeat.[2]

Plot summary

The episode opens with bursts of lights leading to a space battle. A space battle rages around the second Death Star. A Rebel Alliance X-wing fighter races down a trench that leads to a tunnel that goes into the core of the superweapon. It fires a volley of missiles at the reactor core, causing the second Death Star to explode.

The camera then shifts to focus on two stormtroopers with ripped helmets fighting. The red-tinged stormtrooper gains the upper hand over the green-tinged stormtrooper and swings him. As they continue fighting, rebel troopers battle stormtroopers on a bridge. A stricken Imperial Star Destroyer crashes through the gantry. The camera then shifts to depict stormtroopers advancing under enemy fire over a trench in a battlefield.

The camera then shows a giant shape-shifting claw chasing a green-tinged stormtrooper. The camera then shifts towards a battered red-tinged stromtrooper advancing through the battlefield. We see glimpses of flashbacks. As the green-tinged stormtrooper struggles, the red-tinged stormtrooper is swept up by a storm, which transforms into various images of a bright energy source, people frolicking through a beach, flies buzzing around a dead deer, waterfalls, and couple enjoying themselves on a green meadow overlooking a pond.

The green-tinged stormtrooper, who is missing his right arm, struggles to his feet. He finds himself in a graveyard which gives way to footage of stormtroopers being blown up. The green-tinged stormtrooper finds himself flying a TIE fighter through space, that is pursued by another TIE fighter. They fly around a Star Destroyer before the two TIEs dive into the trench of the Death Star. They pursue and engage fire with an X-wing.

The camera then shifts to stormtroopers charging and falling in battle. The camera then switches to several X-wings flying over the second Death Star as a Star Destroyer ploughs into the superweapon. In muddled animation, the red-tinged stormtrooper flies a speeder bike over the trench of the Death Star. The green-tinged stormtrooper pursues him on a speeder bike. They smash through pipelines, jockeying for position. The red-tinged stormtrooper gets consumed by an explosion and collides with the green-tinged stormtrooper. The two men plunge down a shaft.

X-wings plough through the wreckage of the disintegrating second Death Star. A flaming TIE fighter crashes into the flaming superweapon as X-wings plough through the Death Star. Several stormtroopers plunge down a molten core. The camera shifts to the red stormtrooper descending, with a close up of his face and eyes. The camera then shifts to several stormtroopers racing on horses through a battlefield. The red and green-tinged stormtroopers continue grappling while riding their horses. The vision gives way to clouds forming in the shape of an eye.

This is followed by footage of a disintegrating Death Star. A second wave of explosion destroys two Star Destroyers caught in the path of the Death Star. A third explosion scatters debris everywhere. The green and red-tinged stormtroopers rise to their feet among the debris. Both stormtroopers have damaged armor with bruised faces. Amidst hallucinations, the two stormtroopers reach out to help each other. The green stormtrooper's hand descends into claws.

This gives way to a vision of an avalanche sweeping through several stormtroopers. A surviving stormtrooper drudges through the snow while another bruised stormtrooper struggles to rise to the ground. Rebel and Imperial X-wings dogfight above. As the camera zooms out of the planet into space, the camera rests on the bruised face of one of the two stormtroopers before fading to black.

Development

Work in progress art from the short

Work in progress art from the short

"BLACK" was directed by Shinya Ohira, who said one of his main goals when making the short was to create fully animated backgrounds to match Fujiwara Sakura's music. The short had nine scenes and nine animators, with one animator being allocated to each scene. The animators were a mix of Japanese and foreign animators, with several of the foreign animators still being students. Ohira thought the movements drawn by the students were raw and unique in a refreshing way. He added that there were veterans with years of experience and finally honed techniques among the Japanese animators, who created an impactful animation. The animators used artistic brushes to elevate their sequences, and art director Emerick Kevin added a sense of atmosphere that Ohira felt boosted the overall quality of the short. Ohira said director of photography Kentaro Waki added a sense of dynamism and immersion to the piece as a whole.[7]

Ohira described the short as a project for fans of animation by fans of animation[7] and as a "labor of love" that required the kind of effort usually reserved for feature films.[8] "Black" has energetic music,[9] but no dialogue.[2]

Credits

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Cast

Japanese Voice Cast

Crew

  • Inspired by Star Wars created by – George Lucas
  • Written & Directed by – Shinya Ohira
  • Produced by David Production
  • Executive Producer: Shuichiro Tanaka
  • Producer: Tsutomu Fujio
  • Co-Producer: Jacob Ayres
  • Executive Producers: James Waugh, Josh Rimes, Jacqui Lopez
  • Producer: Flannery Huntley
  • Co-Executive Producer: Justin Leach
  • Producer: Kanako Shirasaki
  • Score by – Sakura Fujiwara
  • Lucasfilm STAR WARS Lore Advisor: Matt Martin
  • Lucasfilm Creative Executive: Kelsey Sharpe
  • Lucasfilm Jr. Creative Executive: Jane Riegler
  • Lucasfilm Creative Art Manager: Phil Szostak
  • Lucasfilm Production Coordinator: Rachel Leung
  • Lucasfilm Production Assistant: Kamani Adams
  • Qubic Pictures Production Manager: Connie Chia-Shao Chang
  • Qubic Pictures Production Translators: Byron Alice, Rhiannon Liou, Vicki Yabe
  • Qubic Pictures Production Support: Katrina Minett
  • Qubic Pictures Production Bussiness Administration: Sascha Okamoto
  • Qubic Pictures Production VP Finance: Jason Wasserman
  • Character Designer & Animation Director: Shinya Ohira
  • Key Animators: Bahi JD, Daniel Kim, Chris, Yang Xiao, Julian Bentley, Chansard Vincent, Keiichiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Inoue, Kou Yoshinari, Takeshi Honda, Oleg Kositsyn, Ajay Arunan, Isaac Bouanga, Xu Sijin, Masaaki Endou, Hakuyu Go, Obrian Bennie, Gabriel Ugbodaga, Weilin Zhang, Bluuru, Juny, TheFlyingPanda, Maximilian Sulger, Shinya Ohira
  • In-between Inspections: Yoko Tanaka, Yoshiko Arahata
  • Inbetween Animators: Ryousuke Maruhashi, Reiko Sunaga, Keiko Oyama
  • Inbetween Animators (Production I.G): Kotoe Saito, Asami Tachikawa, Mika Kinoshita, Masako Akita, Orie Koizumi, Karin Haga, Ryuto Kawasaki, Nodoka Iwamoto, Tamami Murata, Yukina Nakane, Haruko Sato
  • Inbetween Animators (CoMix Wave Films Inc.): Reiko Matsuoka
  • Inbetween Animators (Studio Colorido Kyoto): Feng Zhang, Ayumi Kugo, Yuri Taniguchi, Anqi Lim
  • Inbetween Animators (Contrail Co., Ltd.): Mutsuko Kajigaya, Mayu Ota, Mei Abe, Tomohiro Sakegawa, Moe Maruta, Ian Nakamura, Yuna Kawabuchi, Aya Takahashi
  • Inbetween Animators (Team Yamahitsuji): Daichi Shiraishi
  • Inbetween Animators (Pine Jam): Kyohei Daimo, Takamitsu Yuki, Tomoaki Kamiya, Haruto Kitada
  • Inbetween Animators (Bridge): Natsuki Yamaoka, Naoya Kato, Maho Harasawa, Hayaka Suzuki
  • Inbetween Animators (Shuka): Minori Ishimori
  • Inbetween Animators (Hybrid Labo): Mao Yixue
  • Inbetween Animators (Lu Laforte): Li Shuaiting, See Shangshun, Li Xinyi, Sato Daiki
  • Inbetween Animators (Studio Bus): Min Kyung-Ae, Park Kyung-Sook, Min Su-In, Shin Sun Mi, Jang Yun-Young, Park Onnuri
  • Inbetween Animators (Yumeta Co., Ltd.): Rin Yushuan, Munakata Miki
  • Inbetween Animators: Gallop, Shanghai Phantom Anim, Shanghai Honghuang Arts, Studio CL
  • Color Designers: Saki Kurata, Kunio Tsujita
  • Color Stylist & Color Checker: Saki Kurata
  • Color Inspection: Megumi Ao, Rika Aizawa, Rie Takahashi
  • Color Inspection (HORNETS): Masao Ohba
  • Color Inspection (Studio Kagura): Shoko Iura, Tomoko Kobiki, Yuki Tonegawa
  • Paint: Ryouma Furutaki, Miku Marikawa
  • Paint (Studio L): Kazumi Fujita, Yuta Matsuda, Nodoka Kuwahara
  • Paint (M.S.C): Yuji Tanaka, Yuka Aoki, Takayuki Yokose
  • Paint (Lu Laforte): Emi Ebisu
  • Paint (Studio Bus): Na Jong-Ah, Kim Seo-Young, Kim Jung-Hye, Kim Tae-Hee, Kim Yeong-Mi, Kim Eun-Kyeoung, Baek Sung-Hee, Lee Jeong Mi
  • Paint: Gallop, Shanghai Phantom Anim, Shanghai Honghuang Arts
  • Special Effects: Mayuko Sagami, Amane Takamoto
  • Production Sevice by Studio Kamigami
  • Art Director: Aymeric Kevin
  • Art Producer: Yoko Colby
  • Compositing Director: Kentaro Waki
  • Assistant Compositing Director: Naoko Tanaka
  • Compositing: Asashi Production, Kentaro Waki, Naoko Tanaka
  • Programming Development: Masaru Obana
  • Editor: Kashiko Kimura
  • Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
  • Sound Effects: Hiromune Kurahashi
  • Recording: Kenji Hoshino
  • Recording Assistant: Masayuki Konishi
  • Sound Production: dugout / dugout Inc.
  • Music Production Service by – Tiny Jungle Recordd. / Amuse Inc.
  • "Two of Me"
  • Music by – Sakura Fujiwara
  • Lyrics by – Sakura Jiwara, Alisa
  • Arranged & Produced by – Shun Ishiwaka
  • Vocal &: Sakura Fujiwara
  • Drums, Programming: Shun Ishiwaka
  • Bass: Marty Holoubek
  • Percusion: Izumi Matsui
  • Electric Guitar: May Inoue
  • Piano, Synth: Shota Watanabe
  • Trumpet: Yusuke Sase
  • Teno, Sax: Tomoaki Baba
  • Alto Sax, Beritone Sax, Trumpet: Melraw
  • Cello: Sonoko Muraoka
  • Violin, Fiddle: Tact Yamada
  • Trombone: Itsumi Komano
  • Chorus: Lyn Inaizumi
  • Recorded & Mixed – Taiji Okuda (Studio MSR), Tomo Hirata (Studio Form)
  • Directed by – Shoji Kawada, Michiru Uno
  • David Production
  • Material Coordinator: Jacob Ayres
  • Production Managers: Mayuko Sagami, Itsuki Akiyama
  • Assistant Producer: Masaki Hasebe, Yuri Yano
  • Development Support: Takao Kudo
  • Studio Management: Hiroko Okuda, Akihiro Harada
  • Studio Management Support: Anna Sutou
  • System Management: Keisuke Matsuda
  • Transportations: Issei Hisazumi, Junichiro Hara. Yurie Kominami
  • Post Production Services by – Sony PCL Inc.
  • Online Video Editor: Kohei Fujimori
  • Color Grading: Dai Kaneda
  • Lab Coordinator: Hideki Ito
  • Post Production Supervisor: Masanobu Fukunishi
  • Lucasfilm Ltd.
  • Post Production Director: Joanna Goldfarb
  • Global Imaging Supervisor: Jeroen (J.) Schulte
  • Manager, Animation Finance: Danika Gernhart
  • Senior Production Accountant: Spencer Howerton
  • Associate Post Production Manager: Zeke Pinheiro
  • Online Editor: Michale Parkinson
  • Post Production Assistant: Adrianna Lawrence
  • Lucasfilm Associate Counsel: Naureen Z. Hoque
  • Lucasfilm Counsel: Alexis Donoghoe
  • Lucasfilm Director, Contract Administration: Christopher Holm
  • Lucasfilm Contract Administrator: Nick Kane
  • Lucasfilm Clearance Specialist: Alison Daher
  • Lucasfilm Marketing: Kerri Martin, Lauren Berkovatz, Edward Tsai
  • Lucasfilm Int´l Marketing: Barbara Gamlen, Ty Duxbury, Rolando Zegarra
  • Lucasfilm Publicity: Lillian Noble, Lyn Cowan
  • Lucasfilm Director, Distribution Operations: Michale Kohn
  • Theme Music Composed by – David W. Collins
  • Main Title Designed by – Herzog Design Company
  • Right and clearances by – Barbour & Company, Cassandra Barbour, Uchida & Samejima Law Firm
  • President: Kathleen Kennedy
  • EVP, Live Action Devlopement & Production: Carrie Beck
  • EVP, Physical Production: Momita SenGupta
  • SVP, Lucasfilm Art & Designer: Doug Chiang
  • SVP, Licensing & Franchise: Paul Southern
  • VP, Franchise Assets & Publicity: Chris Argyropoulos
  • VP, Human Resources: Blaire Chaput
  • VP, Publicity & Communications: Chris Coxall
  • VP, Production Technology: Lori Gianino
  • VP, Marketing & Franchise Creative: Anna Yeager
  • President & General Manager, Lucasfilm Bussiness: Lynwen Brennan
  • Chief Creative Officer: Dave Filoni
  • SVP, Post Production: Pippa Anderson
  • SVP, Bussiness Affairs & Legal Counsel: Rhonda Hjort
  • CTO, Lucasfilm & ILM: Francois Chardavoine
  • VP, Finance: Lori Aultman
  • VP, Production Finance: Joseph Cho
  • VP, Franchise Marketing: Megan Crumpacker
  • VP, Social & Digital: Dustin Sandoval

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Star-Wars-Visions-series-logo-short Star Wars: Visions — "BLACK"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Premium-Era-real Star Wars: Visions – "Black" on www.annecyfestival.com (backup link archived on March 17, 2025)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 StarWars.com Why We Love the Unique Stories of Star Wars: Visions on StarWars.com (backup link)
  4. ↑ The visions shown in "BLACK" feature the destruction of the DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station during the Battle of Endor, which took place in 4 ABY per Star Wars: Timelines. Therefore, "BLACK" must take place in 4 ABY.
  5. ↑ SWYT-Logo Star Wars Celebration - DAY 3 Replay on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (livestream no longer available)
  6. ↑ Premium-Era-real Two of Me (From "Star Wars: Visions Vol. 3 - BLACK") on Qobuz (backup link archived on October 31, 2025)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 YouTube Star Wars: Visions "Black" // Shinya OHIRA // Interview on the annecyfestival YouTube channel (backup link)
  8. ↑ Premium-Era-real Annecy Review: Shinya Ohira's "Black" Delivers A Bold Psychedelic "Star Wars: Visions" Short on Laughing Place (backup link archived on June 10, 2025)
  9. ↑ StarWars.com Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 First Look and Spinoff Announced – Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 on StarWars.com (backup link)

External links

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