John Hudgens is a award-winning filmmaker, animator, and artist who has directed feature documentaries and several Star Wars parody films, and worked on such varied licensed properties as Babylon 5, Crimson Skies, MechWarrior, and Star Wars.
Hudgens collaborated with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski on official Babylon 5 music videos, long-form trailers that Straczynski used in in his convention presentations and as the sales presentation for the show’s move to TNT.
John won the Audience Choice Award in Lucasfilm’s Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards in both 2003 and 2005 for his parody films The Jedi Hunter and Sith Apprentice. Another parody, Crazy Watto (made with Men in Black creator Lowell Cunningham) played at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival to help promote the premiere of Revenge of the Sith.
He designed cut-scene animation for Microsoft’s hit PC flightsim/adventure game Crimson Skies. He later worked on several projects for WizKids Games, including the Crimson Skies game miniatures, MechWarrior, Creepy Freaks and Pirates of the Spanish Main. He was the lead CG ship artist for the miniatures in WizKids’ popular Star Wars PocketModel trading card game.
His feature documentary American Scary, about classic television horror hosts, won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Independent Film of 2009.
His feature documentary Backyard Blockbusters, about fan films and fan filmmakers, won Best Comedy Documentary at the 2015 Atlanta DocuFest.
CHAIR!, his current documentary project, is about comedy improv through the eyes of the long-running troupe Einstein Simplified as they approached their 25th anniversary.