Fans at yesterday’s Anime NYC were treated to a special preview of one of the nine new shorts of Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 coming to Disney+ on October 29th, 2025; david production’s “BLACK” was shown with new insights from the writer/director Shinya Ohira.
“Something nobody’s ever seen before”
“We wanted to offer a film that was mainly based on Sakura Fujiawara’s singing voice set against these visuals of intense battles. That was our vision as we made the film,” Ohira explained in a pre-recorded video. A veteran artist of everything from Akira (1988) to Spirited Away (2001) to Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Ohira-san also served as character designer and key animator for “BLACK.” “As for the interpretation of the story,” he added, “the viewers, the people watching it, we kind of wanted to leave it up to them…so that’s how we made it.”
Image: A scene from “BLACK,” one of the shorts in the Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 anthology.
Ohira-san added that “We really got down into some fine details for this film. There’s the Death Star…. The setting is really super detailed, and the stormtroopers, drawing out the action in the battle scenes, it was really quite an arduous task for the animators. So that was painful, but it was worth it, and the end result really speaks for itself…. It’s really kind of something nobody’s ever seen before.”
Lucasfilm Shares New Key Art
Senior vice president of franchise content and strategy James Waugh joined voice artist Lexi Nieto onstage to discuss the exciting new stories in Star Wars: Visions Volume 3, including shorts from returning studios from Volume 1 Kamikaze Douga, Kinema citrus Co., Production I.G, and TRIGGER, and new Visions participants ANIMA (in co-production with Kamikaze Douga), david production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q, and WIT Studio.
Newly-unveiled key art showcases the broad range of storytelling and visual design in Volume 3, including the broken armor of the nightmarish troopers seen in “BLACK” and the return of Ronin from “The Duel,” from “The Village Bride,” and Lah Kara from “The Ninth Jedi,” three shorts available in Volume 1 streaming on Disney+.
Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 arrives on Disney+ on October 29th, 2025, and you can catch up on the first two volumes exclusively on Disney+ now.
