The Jedi Song is an animation which features everything: winged monkeys, Jar-Jar’s death, eggs on swings, and the full text of an undiscovered Shakespeare play.
Alright… not that last one.
The video was made for a song originally strummed by my good friend Mark Huckerby one Saturday morning in Wandsworth circa 1998. I had come up from Cowfold to do a student radio show together with Mark, Nick Ostler, Catherine Chew, Paul Lewis and Salim Fadhley. We made the song into a short sketch involving a drunk Obi-Wan Kenobi trying to use his powers to get a free Shepherd’s Pie.
A while later (about five years later) the very talented Rob Stangroom rearranged the song into the current version. He played all the instruments and sung along with Nick and Mark. I can’t remember why I wasn’t there… they gave me very specific directions which led me to a dark thicket where I was assaulted by three men in balaclavas.
Anyway I swore one day to animate to the song and with only five days to spare before the new film came out, and with a new job and moving house to contend with, I begun the Herculean task. It’s a bit rushed in places, and there are some places where I would have liked to animate instead of having still images. Hey-ho, maybe one day.
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