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an Mark Fakhry had the pleasure of
meeting Luke Skywalker himself at
this year’s New York Comic Con. He
has previously met Peter Mayhew and
Jeremy Bulloch at Planet Comicon in Kansas FORCES OF ANIMATION
City in 2016. Of meeting Mark Hamill, he
said, “I felt five again. As Mark was Young fan Ine Vercruysse makes own Star Wars cartoons

autographing my Luke Skywalker maquette,
I told him I became a pilot because of Luke ne 10-year-old fan of the 1,000 likes and retweets on
and Han. He took an interest asking what Forces of Destiny series Twitter alone. “I thought it was
airline I worked for. Awesome guy!” O has been creating her very really amazing that so many
own stop-motion home movies. different people from all around
Ine Vercruysse, who lives in the world liked my video and
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Belgium, says the project was commented on it!” Ine says. “It
inspired both by a classmate who made me feel really special.”
had made stop-motion animation, Ine’s second video was a
and her affi nity for Star Wars. “I more ambitious undertaking that
watched Forces Of Destiny this already shows off her growing
past summer and loved it!” says skills. Using the “BB-8 Bandits”
the longtime Rebels fan. short as her inspiration, this
She realized she had almost all time she incorporated music, a
the action figures in her collection nightwatcher worm drawing, and

and decided to bring “Bounty over 100 additional individual
of Trouble” to life. “I collect the shots for a more fl uid fi lm that’s
female figures because I like that nearly a minute-and-a-half long.

they are strong characters and that She also had a little help from

they are equal to boys,” she says. her mom, who figured out how to
Ine bought herself a book incorporate Rey’s theme into the
about animation to learn the basic final cut of the video and crafted

principals, studied the episode, a speeder bike out of a cereal box.
cast the right figures from her “The biggest challenge for

toy collection, and sketched out me was to remember the position
a storyboard. “I also made some of the camera after I changed the

props like the datapad.” Some action figures,” she says. You can
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leftover confetti stood in for an see Ine’s videos on YouTube by
explosion effect. searching for “Stop-motion video
Then she crafted a simple inspired by Star Wars Forces
white background, secured it Of Destiny”.
with some tape, and started her
abridged shot-for-shot remake
using the family iPad and an app
for editing. The final video was

21 seconds long, with three still
images per second.
“She did everything herself,”
her mother Veerle says. “I was
01 From one pilot to another. Mark Fakhry meets
Mark Hamill. blown away by it!” She wasn’t
02 Mark also met Billy Dee Williams last year at the alone. When Veerle shared the
Kansas City Comic Con. short online, it garnered nearly

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