Thursday, January 17, 2008

Why Darth Decimatus?

I know for anyone who has visited my blog, you are most likely wondering why the hell my blog is entitled Darth Decimatus. To answer your question. Yes, I am a loser... But there actually is a story behind it. When I was growing up, like many young nerds I was a huge Star Wars fan. I collected all of the toys and loved the story. However, as I got older, I began to see how poorly done the new films were. They lacked depth and production quality was low. Well because I was still a kid with a wild imagination, I began to think of what my take on Star Wars would be. I started designing a Sith Lord. With Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith coming out, my friends and myself were planning on going to the premier. When they had seen my design, many also requested that I design them one as well. Each one was named and looked totally different than the last. This provided more fuel for my nerdy fire. I kept working on my own story. My result was a story centered around a dark lord named Darth Decimatus. I began to develop his character and create a story around him. I drew dozens of designs for starships and other characters. It became a whole production. Each ship in he story has been designed and each character developed and designed. The result is a deep story of betrayal and darkness. After my creation was complete, obviously I couldn't really do anything with it. However, Darth Decimatus ended up becoming a sort of alias for me. It became my aim screenname and email address for example (yes I am still a huge loser...)Years later, even though my liking of Star Wars has significantly diminished, I still use the character's name from time to time. I guess even when you have outgrown something, you never can outgrow your imagination and never stop loving some of the products of it. For as much as I criticize George Lucas for creating the prequel trilogy (mostly because the films were bad...) I can see why he did it. It is really cool to see a product of your imagination come to life.

5 comments:

Strehl said...

its a sweet concept and a sweet character (ive see it and heard the full story before)

Marny said...

Christian Bale is god. Best actor ever.

Rick B said...

Swank its pretty dorky that you came up with this stuff but the characters you came up with are still pretty good. Imagine if you took a step farther with a 3-d modeling program....Sound Familiar?

Anonymous said...

Every night, there's one thought that keeps me awake. And that is, "When will Swank make me a character?"

Anonymous said...

i agree with doraely...when do i get a character? i agree the star wars prequels all sucked, but i liked that he attempted to tell more of the story. if only he had done so with a bit more quality i would have been much happier.