'Star Wars: Visions' Returning For Third Volume
May the creative force be with you for a third round of the animated anthology
Disney and Lucasfilm have affirmed their greater vision for Star Wars: Visions. The animated anthology series will be back for a third volume. Despite the long silence following the Star Wars Day release of the second volume last year, it’ll be far sooner to see the next, as a 2025 premiere has been promised on Disney+ as usual. It was announced shortly after midnight Eastern Wednesday, and that’s because it began Disney’s two-day APAC Content Showcase event in Singapore, and seems to be the one thing coming out of the event that the widest global audience would be interested in.
Volume 3 will return the series to being the Japanese studio showcase the first volume was. It certainly explains why the announcement was made when and where it was, major work coming out of that region of the world. It will have nine shorts from returning studios Kamikaze Douga, Kinema citrus Co., Production I.G., and TRIGGER, and new studios David Production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q, WIT Studio, and ANIMA, who is doing so in co-production with Kamikaze Douga. Visions is considered a great sandbox of creativity in story and animation styles, free from the constraints of canon, leading to “wildly imaginative” interpretations of the Star Wars mythos that fans and critics took kindly to.
Volume 1 released in September 2021 and also featured Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, and Science Saru. That aforementioned second volume from last May branched out as a more international effort, including one short in-house, with others from claymation king Aardman in the United Kingdom, El Guiri in Spain, Wolfwalkers studio Cartoon Saloon in Ireland, Punkrobot in Chile, western animation mainstay Studio Mir in South Korea, Studio La Cachette in France, 88 Pictures in India, D’art Shtajio in Japan, along with Triggerfish from South Africa and Ireland.
Source: Star Wars