Ansel Hsiao

Ansel Hsiao is an artist who specializes in 3D modeling.

His Imperial-class Star Destroyer model was featured in Star Wars Insider 125 and he was one of the artists that provided illustrations for The Essential Guide to Warfare. Hsiao also supplied some information regarding the Assertor-class Star Dreadnought and the Bellator-class dreadnought in Star Wars: Insider 134. In addition to his fanon artwork and the Imperial-class Star Destroyer model, he created 3D representations of then-canon vessels for Warfare, including the Praetor II-class Star Battlecruiser, the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer, the Executor-class Star Dreadnought (which was also his first Star Wars-related 3D artwork), the Harrower-class dreadnought, the Nebula-class Star Destroyer and the Endurance-class fleet carrier.

Hsiao noted that he had based the appearance of certain background starships seen in The Essential Guide to Warfare illustration of Naval Station Validusia on the depiction of freighters in the Murk system that was included in the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas.

His website, fractalsponge.net, contains a plethora of the models that he has created.

In 2019, Ansel Hsiao complained that some of the artworks published on his website were reused without his consent by the illustrator Joe Corroney in the reference book Star Wars: Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide. In 2020, Hsiao noticed similar appropriation of his work in the sourcebook Collapse of the Republic.

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