Fanfilms fanfilms everywhere, but software costs too much. The perennial problem with making Star Wars Fan Films is that the vast majority of us who have the time, creativity, and desire to do it can’tafford the software required to do those nifty effects and space battles. And, while we’re at it, how in the hell did they do that nifty opening crawl?

Well, in the first three films, they pasted yellow type on a bluescreen and ran a camera over it, and that’s about it. In TPM, however, it was all done in a 3D suite.

This tutorial is written specifically for Blender, a Totally FREE 3D modeling and animation suite available here at Blenderwars, but the basic concepts should be applicable to virtually any 3Dsuite.