Skirmish in the Archeon Nebula

Inspired by the Secret Cargo episode of the third season of Star Wars Rebels, in April 2017 I decided to create this piece showing the confrontation between the new TIE Defender prototype and the Y-wings piloted by Ezra Bridger and Jon Vander (Gold Leader).

The battle in the episode takes place inside a stellar nursery so, being an astrophysicist myself, I thought it would be nice to use an actual star-forming nebula for the background :)

Created in Cinema 4D R11.5
Y-wings by Al Meerow http://www.scifi3d.com/details.asp?intGenreID=10&intCatID=10&key=54
R4 droid by John Jongsma http://www.scifi3d.com/details.asp?intGenreID=10&intCatID=13&key=600
TIE Defender by Staffan Norling http://www.scifi3d.com/details.asp?intGenreID=10&intCatID=8&key=164
NGC3582 nebula by T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, T. Abbott and NOAO/AURA/NSF https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-ngc3582/