Kualan

Starkiller OP plz nerf.

Now, I'm not exactly a Disney fanboy (there's good and bad sides to the new canon) and I don't doubt you strongly believe what you have posted, however despite the long and detailed posts what you are proposing is entirely speculative with little actual objective evidence - that is to say, evidence for which your hypothesis is the sole conclusion. I am afraid what you're suggesting is conjecture so far, and most (if not all) points have other possible answers that are just as if not more likely. The idea that Disney would not change a "decades-long business plan" does not reflect how large corporations do business. Inflexibility is not how you get to be the biggest kid in the playground. We have a wealth of evidence that changing the plan is precisely what Disney is willing to do - the Rogue One reshoots and the replacement of the original Solo directors with Ron Howard are two well-documented examples of the company willing to make radical (and expensive) changes in the name of delivering a good final product. The original reason for cancelling Clone Wars is also well-documented and largely comes down to two issues - budget (it was costing several million $ an episode) and tone (it was too mature for its would-be home on one of the Disney channels) with the expense being the primary factor of the two. As the fresh owner of the Star Wars IP, it would have been a risky play to invest such big $ in the show. Given what you have said you know of Disney's intentions, I'm sure you will agree that their first priority would be to ensure their new acquisition turns a profit and the safest way for them to do that was to invest in a) The upcoming Force Awakens and b) A TV show they could own and broadcast outright without sharing it with another network (i.e. Rebels). So why bring the show back now? You propose it is two-fold. One, to keep Dave Filoni on-side. Again, this is not how big companies work. Filoni is a huge part of Star Wars animation's success over the last ten years (TCW and Rebels alike) but let's be realistic. If Disney is all about the bottom-line and creating their own universe at the expense of the old, they are not going to throw several million $ at a project set during an era they are apparently trying to eradicate just to keep one man happy. Especially when they have a separate show coming up (Resistance) set entirely in their new world, with their new characters, etc that requires resources, promotion and creative leadership. Secondly, you suggest it is to wrap up the prequel/Lucas era for good. Clone Wars was already dead, despite the hashtags and petitions I would posit a majority of fans did not expect the show to ever actually return (for the same reasons as before - largely expense). There is literally no reason that obliged Disney to invest the necessary time, people and resources in concluding the series when so many alternatives were on offer. Novels (Dark Disciple) and comics (Son of Dathomir) are both tried-and-tested methods of telling the same story if they wanted to do so out of a sense of creative obligation, and could have been done at a fraction of the cost. So what's different now? Why change the "plan"? I keep using that phrase 'how big companies work' and it's key to my alternative suggestion. Big companies - and for the giants like Disney this is increased tenfold - maintain their position through a combination of safe bets, market research and a huge archive of customer data constantly being gathered and analysed. Now don't get me wrong, I love that Clone Wars is coming back but I do not believe it is being done as a 'thank you' to the fans, or because Filoni won Disney execs round with a passionate speech or anything else. It, as ever, comes down to money. Look at the format the show is coming back in - it is there to help launch the new Disney streaming service (it doesn't have a name yet - let's just call it Disneyflix). Disney/Lucasfilm has access to a ton of metric data that the public never sees, and this includes things like viewership and sales figures. Season Six did very well on Netflix (I remember it dominating the animation section when it first arrived) and given the multiple re-releases and boxsets it is fair to assume that sales for DVD/Blu-Ray have also been strong. If Disney is bringing it back now, it is because its own research and data since 2012 suggests it has moved from "risky" to "safe" as a revenue generator. It is also a product with huge marketability potential - and that is key. The show is coming back to promote the launch of Disneyflix, so having something that will hype people up, get them talking about the upcoming streaming service, etc is the overall goal and judging by the reception so far this is succeeding. When Disneyflix launches it will be done with a HUGE investment in marketing as they are trying to push into a sector dominated by Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. Dropping a few million $ into a show that will be one of the exclusive 'draws' of the new launch is a more profitable investment than doing so back in 2012 to allow Cartoon Network to keep broadcasting a show in its seventh season. This is becoming an essay of my own now so I am going to wrap up, but I hope the above shows an entirely different explanation behind Disney's decisions - and ones that I find to be more practical and realistic than the idea that is part of a Machiavellian-style scheme to turn the fans against the prequel/Lucas era.

I've credited him on several mods without issue.

I read through/watched those sources (I have seen the KK interview before), but they just seem to reiterate what we already know about Solo and what went wrong there. I was more interested in how you are so certain that the Clone Wars has been brought back as a deliberate effort by Lucasfilm to "make that which was popular of Star Wars unpopular". I can not see any evidence for that, and bringing back the show in the first place would seem to fly directly against that idea.

Certainly sounds radical. Given the level of research and digging that you have done, could you provide some sources?

I have not worked on Highsinger since, though to be honest he would be one of the easier ones to finish up. IIRC the main issue was I just have to do a final pass on the weight painting to make sure his limbs stay connected during certain animations. I have limited time at the moment though.

Yeah, this is high on my list too.

- Bad Batch arc is in, based on the tracking shot in the trailer which is identical to one in the released animatics for that arc. - Utapau is assumed to be the second arc on the basis that it was at the same level of completion as Bad Batch at the time of cancellation however we don't know for certain at this stage. - I don't think we will see Ventress. I think the Dark Disciple novel and Son of Dathomir comic will remain the definitive versions of those stories. Since they only have 12 episodes to work with there's no sense in going over old ground - and Dark Disciple alone was planned to be an 8-part arc across two seasons.

The clips in the trailer are all animated from episodes written and in pre-production before the Disney takeover, so it's all old-Lucasarts-like ???

As the self-appointed Clone Wars fanboy of the Hub, this was my natural reaction:

Nice work on that Nautolan head @@Jeff / @@Noodle .

Glad to see this thread, and will be watching your progress with great interest. I would definitely vote for seeing standalone versions of your maps though, rather than keeping them exclusive to KOTF.

I haven't done any JKA work for awhile now. Happy to hear ideas - I tend to veer more towards prequel/Clone Wars stuff.

Oh, I know exactly where that's from. Over here in the UK, one of the big television platforms is Sky TV. They have a bunch of themed "Sky Movie" channels ("Sky Movies Comedy", "Sky Movies Romance" etc) and this came from a promotional ad they ran for a dedicated "Sky Movies Star Wars" channel they launched back when Force Awakens came out. I don't know if it still exists or if they just put it up seasonally whenever a new movie is coming out, but I remember at the time thinking it was a really well-made ad considering it was for a cable channel that would be running the same 6 decades-old movies on a loop. EDIT: Found a link -

I really let this slip, but I'm hoping to have an update next week when I have some time off work.

Great stuff, my JKA time is very limited these days but I always make sure to check this thread. Very excited for this.

I think I have one buried somewhere (I never got round to updating the TOR Bossk I uploaded yonks ago). I'll see if I can dig it up.

Welcome back to the world of JKA.

Weird, this kept crashing as soon as I tried to launch a mission. Probably needs a fresh install of JKA but I have too much mod crap to do that - any know conflicts I can check?

I have a simple Wordpad document with a loooong list of names for random kitbashes and stuff. He has been on it for awhile - if I find time for JK modding again anytime soon, I may get round to him.

I don't have much JKA time these times, but for this I'm going to find the time.

Oh yeah, here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3f4vilk6if5npqq/ZygerrianWarrior.rar?dl=0