Source: StarWars.com
Posted By: Dan Geer
Remember back in 2008, when Louisiana grad student Brent Budden created a Star Wars Crawl Creator using Flash, in which you could enter any text you wanted and it would generate it into the style of the opening crawl of the Star Wars films? Well, that program became so popular that was taken down not too long after it was created due to copyright issues. However, Lucasfilm saw a great opportunity with the program and decided to create their own version, inspired by Budden’s original work. Read on to find out more!
From StarWars.com:
From Budden:
“This was always something I had in the back of my head, because I’m a big Star Wars fan and I’ve seen people do their own crawls for fan-made videos,” explained Budden. “So, I knew there are people who want to do this, but I figured there had to be an easier way to do it… For the first week, I didn’t see a whole lot of hits. But it got posted to the right blog, and about one week into it, I noticed the counter started going crazy. We started getting 10,000 hits an hour.”
From Lucasfilm:
“There have been a number of crawl generators made over the years, but Brent’s work was what inspired our team at StarWars.com to create our own. And we took the idea of a crawl generator to the next level with an easy Facebook integration and other advanced features,” said Bill Gannon, Director of Digital Media at Lucasfilm.
Click here to use the official Lucasfilm Star Wars crawl generator!
Barry said
August 20 2010
I wish Lucasarts would make this a purchasable program for people to use.
Blake said
March 8 2011
I wish they hadn’t squashed Brent’s original.
chad bennett said
August 11 2011
Typical Lucas lawyers killing all the fun. It takes someone with initiative and creativity to put something out there before Lucas films comes swooping in with a “Oh we were gonna do that already” or “How can we get 10,000 hits to our website an hour” GREEDY! and getting really really annoying.
Dan Geer said
August 12 2011
Lucasfilm is a business, and has a right to copyrighted material. They did give Budden credit for his work.