LEGO Star Wars: Bane of the Sith (HD)

[@iJosh64]

I must admit, I keep watching this every now and then. Part because I'm nostalgic, and part because it's actually pretty cool for a Darth Bane trailer

[@vionjefferson5229]

Still freaking legendary and high quality to this day in 2022-23🙌🏾!!!

[@Keshen8]

Awesome work, looks way better in HD

[@BrickArtsGames]

Dude you know how long I've been looking for this video, I almost gave up hope.

[@Cuban20]

BrickArts295 Now you'll never give up lol.

[@daimyo_Ikigai]

Love it awesome, one of the best Star Wars Darth bane video ever!!!

[@TheAnimatorEqualizer]

The most amazing use of CGI and Chroma Key in a brickfilm I have ever seen. Great job 5/5!

[@nicholas-scott]

This looks so epic in HD

[@JoeJoeChris014]

Dude!!! You got talent!!! 5 Stars!!!!

[@LittleGuitarz]

It looked so real! Amazing! Keep on like this! They rock!

[@gelworldmovies]

this was awesome in HD love it

[@blobstudios]

Awesome, amazing animation!!!

[@TehEpicPineapple]

you know my friends tell me that CG and green screen will never look good in films...but this has proven them wrong. I love it!(and by the way that shot with the army of light and the brotherhood of darkness clashing WASNT too dark!!! The darkness really brought out the lightsabers and it looked awesome!!!!!

[@Saminatorger]

You are the most professional "brick filmer" on KZbin, i love your attention to detail eg at 0:23 you can actually see a small tear!

[@SmeagolStudios]

Thanks, I did spend a disproportionate amount of time on that model for the amount of screentime it gets in this trailer. Though after spending a lot of time on it I made sure to include it whereever I could in the trailer.

[@Drakeflamethedragonoidman]

A master to embody the power in an apprentice to create it

[@ojibway]

hot damn thats tight.... yer a cruel dude for not doing a full version and teasing us with this trailer. Great work

[@Olsonstudios]

HD looks even better Smeagol, nice work.

[@NateSkywalker81]

Darth Bane kicks Sith ass, I loved both novels "The path of destuction" and "The rule of two". Awsome video, I saving this to watch again.

[@namchild8277]

great work, great cgi too, the night sword battle at the end was a sick idea.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@SuperBlackBiker I didn't make up the story, but basically Bane destroyed the Sith order as it was at the time, except for himself, to end all the infighting and created the "rule of two," where there is only one master and one apprentice at a time. No robots in this, there are some Sith troopers (as seen in the Knights of the Old Republic games) that are sort of robot-esque

[@TK-iu8nj]

1:08 Bane found Darth Revan's holocron not Malak's! Malak didn't even made a holocron.

[@SmeagolStudios]

Takeru Takaishi addressed in the video description since it's the most common crit I've gotten in this comments section, haha

[@inventorking9124]

+Takeru Takaishi And he found it on Lehon not Korriban

[@Cuban20]

Inventor King How would you know that was Korriban and not Lehan?

[@Cuban20]

That's not Darth Malak. In the next book, Rule of Two, Bane's mind is temporarily damaged. He's the only Sith that survived the death wave from the Mind Bomb but it damaged his psyche. He's hallucinating with both Kaan and Qordis

[@destructionproductions9131]

i like MakeNoiseManStudios' version more, not that this one isn't good too.

[@SmeagolStudios]

I used Carrara to generate an elevation map, exported that to Photoshop, flattened it out into tiered layers by reducing the number of colors, then mapped slightly elevated studs on top of that.

[@luke2r2r]

wow this is just amazing good job;)

[@SmeagolStudios]

There's a note about this in the video description. It's Malak's ghost, not the holocron, that he's talking to in the trailer.

[@SmeagolStudios]

No, read the description for more info, I just made the trailer.

[@ChaosXUnleashed]

Very Epic :) Well Done

[@Saminatorger]

This is a very impressive piece of work, you're attention to detail is excellent, I love the way you're able to integrate CGI into your stop motion animations. I have followed a few of your tutorials on your website and have begun to composite CGI elements into my films, it's gonna take a lot of getting used to but I think I might be able to pull it off.

[@undisputedgreatest]

Oh...this is absolutely incredible. I love it. That is my favorite book.

[@supercoolclark]

Awesome!

[@SmeagolStudios]

@blodstainer Not sure where the joke would be. But I meant that dinosaurs are hardly the earliest part of the history of the universe for us; even just Earth goes back at least 4.5 billion as opposed to dinosaurs being in the last 100 million years. I agree with you about Infinite empire, there are a few vague bits of info that date back (much) further than that but not any major stories.

[@angelwater8987]

I though this was a trailer, Best star wars video ever!!!

[@SmeagolStudios]

@abelizer Bane's lightsaber is red in the novels, but it was sort of an off-purple color in the comic books for years before that, and I thought the look was more unique and interesting so I went for that instead. I definitely took some creative liberties throughout this video.

[@yehoshuasmith5608]

"You are the bane of my existence..." Ahh, the nostalgia lol

[@higuyby100]

your unbelievable at animation dont stop and you will be sucsessful

[@darthrugg]

That was an awesome book! and you made it look very good here.

[@gigerbrick]

Beautifully shot! I love your films pal, keep it up!

[@darkrad7535]

its fucking 2018 and i found this video now??

[@SmeagolStudios]

@zaandarbrow I think it goes back a lot further than dinosaurs for us... There was a proposed book that was going to talk about the origin of humans in the star wars galaxy (coming from earth and sent back through time) but it got canceled. The Infinite Empire in "Knights of the Old Republic" goes back pretty far though, I don't know of Star Wars history set before that.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@dinocoking Naw, a short film is a very different thing. This is edited and paced like a movie trailer, whereas a short film usually tries to tell a simple story with a distinct beginning, middle, and end in a more complete fashion.

[@99JediDrew]

no! why won;t you make a full of this?!? its so awesome!

[@SmeagolStudios]

During the time this movie is set, purple was a predominantly Sith color. Electrum lightsabers like Mace's did not come until much later.

[@SmeagolStudios]

Malak, in the trailer, isn't a part of the holocron, he's a ghost, who appears shortly after Bane activates the holocron. I'm aware that Revan had a holocron and Bane learned from it. We just don't see Revan's image in the trailer.

[@vnanimation]

Wow, I see so much more detail then I could before. :D

[@SmeagolStudios]

@gradeygradeygradey I don't know, it's from the Episode 3 soundtrack, though. It's been a while, the music in this is a blend of several pieces from that soundtrack.

[@caleb10909]

DUDE YOU ARE AWSOME AT THAT!!!!!!!!!

[@LittleGuitarz]

love it!

[@Njasken]

Holy crap, That was AWSOME!!!!!

[@gungrave2012]

u should turn this into a short movie this trailer is great i never get tiered of watching it

[@mpr9036]

Would make an amazing film!

[@SmeagolStudios]

@BoMb3rMaN1 Yeah, this isn't that scene. The holocron in this trailer isn't identified, but that is the ghost of Malak.

[@matteumayo]

Very well edited!

[@BoMb3rMaN1]

this was so good that they should hav it turned into a movie

[@IsaiahGomez]

1:15 the slow head turn is awesome

[@AngryJapaneseManCo]

Phenomenal! Truly amazing! Excellent work!

[@SmeagolStudios]

@dumie435 The first thing is addressed in the video description. As far as the mandalorian, Bane had some part in fighting them at times over his long career, but I definitely took a lot of liberties as well.

[@SmeagolStudios]

Correct, the Malak bit is an embellishment, though to clarify it's not the holocron of Malak, it is his ghost.

[@wytel]

This is an inspiring film! I love your techinque. Would it be possible to learn how you developed the lego landscape in Carrara? Thank you.

[@wiggles7777777777]

WOW! Awesome sets and animation. COOL!

[@ebrowne369]

@evilmage567 no. bane was at first trained by all the mentors on korriban, but when he got shunned he secretly only continued with kas'im the swordsman and githany, another student. however, after visiting the tombs on korriban, he made a revelation about the sith and rejected all of the brotherhoods teachings, I.E. equality/stability, except for practical lessons and knowledge, I.E force tricks, light saber moves, etc. he then also learned most of his stuff from salvaged holocrons from planets.

[@SmeagolStudios]

Can't please everyone I guess. I definitely styled the trailer after real Star Wars trailers, hence the fairly slow pacing in the first half. The author of the book liked my trailer, though, I guess I'll settle for that.

[@SirTwitch86]

Darth Bane-Path of Destruction and Darth Bane-rule of two. Both are great books if you love the sith. a third one is gonna be out in dec I think.

[@SmeagolStudios]

Thanks, although I'm pretty sure I didn't use "Battle of the Heroes" anywhere in the trailer. I used several other excerpts from the Episode III score though.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@ultraprime501 Nope, I photoshopped them to look like they had decals on them (the Sith Troopers never move in this trailer, anyway)

[@dumie435]

Awesome. And really, I think you have the potential to become extremely popular among the most famous animators again (not saying that you aren't already are), but recently you've stopped uploading stopmations and started the llamas in Lima series. But, if you carefully examine the most famous Lego animators (forrestfire101, keshen8, xxxfancypantsxxx, pizzamovies, etc.) they are falling behind.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@dumie435 I designed them myself, but they aren't decals, they were added in photoshop.

[@AcceptanceLiving]

@SmeagolStudios The history beginning was Corotosis Blades, no such thing as lightsabers, or Bogan. (Sith.) So, here's a mere descripton of what it would be: A little enclave of what was "Jedi" who had magical powers and was used to protect the galaxy, until some Jedi felt like outcasts, abandoned the Jedi, making the Bogan side of the force. The Sith had little weapons, probably nothing better then a Corotosis Blade. When the lightsaber had came out, only Jedi had it until the Sith had stolen

[@SmeagolStudios]

@mcclainjaneen A lot of the artwork, and also and comics predating the novels, shows a purpleish blade like in my trailer; I liked the look of it better than the red.

[@SmeagolStudios]

I shot those scenes with blank minifigures and added the designs to them on the computer.

[@abelizer]

@SmeagolStudios cool. i haven't read the comics but this was great! and i hope they make a movie. :)

[@batmanfan281]

greatist lego video ever

[@gubster511]

ok that was one of the best lego videos ive ever watched how did u make the sceane were all the sith and the jedi army were fighting?

[@ShakuShingan]

Wow, that was fantastic.

[@Websitecommissie]

OK, thanks for the fast reaction!

[@SmeagolStudios]

@evilmage567 No. Basically I just wanted to shoehorn Malak into the trailer.

[@CorranHorn15]

WOW This trailer is amazing. Could you made a Lego Thrawn Trilogy trailer?

[@SmeagolStudios]

I don't recall...it was from the Episode III soundtrack. "Anakin's Dark Deeds," perhaps?

[@SmeagolStudios]

You're confused I guess, Darth Bane was born in 1026 BBY, which is about 1000 years before Episode 3 / the rise of the Empire.

[@magic___window]

Haha, I noticed the sith holocron. Very nice, I havent watched this in ages.

[@legodarknight101]

@abelizer What does it matter, the trailer's still freaking awesome!

[@SmeagolStudios]

Most of this trailer is based on "Path of Destruction," I just called it "Bane of the Sith" because I thought it'd be a cool name.

[@SmeagolStudios]

You might check out the video in response to this one, it shows what is real and what was added via computer.

[@dumie435]

oh yeah I knew that BrinkSquare is my cousins account I told him to post that because my main channel ran out of characters. And one thing I just noticed, you included sith troopers in your video, the ones with the grey armour, did you purchase them off of the internet or did you make the decal yourself?

[@SmeagolStudios]

I used various bits of music from the Star Wars Ep. 3 soundtrack

[@Lyciia]

Just do the film ! best lego trailer ever :)

[@SmeagolStudios]

It sounds like you've mistaken the characters in this video. The twi'lek around 1:46 is Kas'im, and Kaan is the human around 1:51.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@MrLegoguy9198 it'd take years to do it right...and I don't want to spend several years making another Star Wars lego movie.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@fireguy789 I used a color swapping function in VirtualDub

[@Lord3clipse]

one word AWESOME

[@SmeagolStudios]

Yeah, he's a ghost in this trailer. His words are reminiscent of his last words in the game.

[@Legjed4]

10 years later back on this video :)

[@legomad]

It's harder than you think to create a LEGO movie, it's not as simple as 'oh make it PLEASE', it takes a long time and a lot of hard work.

[@Ghost-ql3hl]

Just curious but did this ever become a movie that you made or was this just a trailer I remember loving this video when I was younger and I spent countless hours watching Star Wars stop motion

[@001skm]

I really want to see that movie!!!

[@wytel]

Cool. Thanks for the start! Now I just have to google how to do that!

[@aniflannagan]

Beautiful. Thanks.

[@SmeagolStudios]

@BrinkSquare ...but I already finished the llama series over a month ago.

[@DannsProductions]

13 years later and I would have love to have seen the lightsaber battle 2:01 at the end of Episode 9.

[@dumie435]

Oh yea sorry for my ignorance I didn't read the full description and I have a question Why did you need two layers for the malak ghost scene when you could only use one as seen in ur raw footage?

[@robracer97]

what i wouldet give to see a full version of this