--- description: The short film is an homage to 1994's 'Star Wars: TIE Fighter' title: Someone Spent 4 Years Creating This Anime-Style Tribute to a 'Star Wars' Video Game image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Someone Spent 4 Years Creating This Anime-Style Tribute to a _Star Wars_ Video Game  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 25, 2015 2:19 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 25, 2015 2:19 PM CUT The _Star Wars_ universe keeps growing, but one fan with _a lot_ of time on his hands has been fixated by one of its lesser-known properties: [the 1994 computer game _Star Wars: TIE Fighter_.](http://kotaku.com/one-man-spent-four-years-making-a-homage-to-the-video-g-1693469097 "undefined") “What if there was an Empire-focussed short _Star Wars_ animation, drawn with the crazy detail and shading of classic ’80s anime that’s all but vanished from Japan nowadays?” asked Paul “OtaKing” Johnson on his YouTube channel. Well, Johnson spent his weekends for the past four years making that hypothetical a reality, and the resulting seven-minute, incredibly detailed short film has absolutely delighted the geekiest corners of the Internet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3757840/star-wars-tie-fighter-anime-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3757840/star-wars-tie-fighter-anime-video/"},"headline":"Someone Spent 4 Years Creating This Anime-Style Tribute to a Star Wars Video Game","datePublished":"2015-03-25T14:19:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:01.288Z","description":"The short film is an homage to 1994's Star Wars: TIE Fighter","url":"https://time.com/3757840/star-wars-tie-fighter-anime-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Star Wars topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3757840/star-wars-tie-fighter-anime-video/","name":"Someone Spent 4 Years Creating This Anime-Style Tribute to a Star Wars Video Game"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer","description":"Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Z2jYG2aP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-03T13:30:09.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Z2jYG2aP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3757840/star-wars-tie-fighter-anime-video/","duration":"PT1M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3757840/star-wars-tie-fighter-anime-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```