Light Sabers

slimdog55 · Post by **slimdog55** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:56 am

Anybody ever try them? I never really liked Star Wars or light sabers, but I took a little visit to www.ryan-w.com and looked into the tutorial section and went to the light saber video tutorials and watched. And I decided to give it a little test. I had only about four and a half(4.5) seconds of video to edit. Oh ya, I used After Effects, not Photoshop. And it took me about...like...around...4 HOURS to edit it! But it was also my first time trying this effect. The results looked really good. Anybody else try this effect? And where they happy with the way it looked?

padawanNick · Post by **padawanNick** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:13 am

Yeah, I've done this a lot with Media Studio Pro. (wrote this tutorial on how)
Nothing amazes people more than seeing you swing a "real" lightsaber !
Have Fun

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:43 am

at some point everyone tries them... there not exactly complicated either. so naturally alot of people try it.

ChibiVader · Post by **ChibiVader** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:38 am

Lightsabers is probably one of the most worthwhile effects for an After Effects newbie to learn. It's a great introduction on what you can do with animated masks and begins teaching about transfer modes.

I've tried it and rotoscoped a 5 minute film before. It was pointless but fun.

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:41 pm

i did a 9 second clip, in about 20 minutes using AE.
That's 9*30=270 frames
20*60=1200 / 270 = 4.444... seconds per frame.
Anyone can do better with photoshop?!

blue_dirt · Post by **blue_dirt** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:25 pm

no, i think that after effects is the best, cause you can just make a mask, instead of altering every single frame.

nigel101 · Post by **nigel101** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:57 pm

downloaded it and it looks mint. let the force be with yA.

FreZko · Post by **FreZko** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:24 pm

even i know how to make lightsabers!
Thanks to Rioux and insert_coin! Thanks guys

-FreZko

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:12 pm

Yeah pretty much everyone tries lightsabres, guess i got here to late to explain it oh well

TXFilms · Post by **TXFilms** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:42 am

Yeah, but I did lightsaber gag reels. You know, Lightsaber comes out, and then droops down towards the floor. And my favorite, a guy fires up his lightsaber, and swings it, then starts running, and the light part stays where its at, and he keeps going. Turns around, grabs it, screws it into the handle, and continues his fight sequence. Sounds pretty cheesy, but it got quite a few laughs...

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:05 pm

You could even use a flourescent light bulb as the saber blade, so you get a live glow! It would work, however you couldn't whack anything without it breaking!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:20 pm

well even i the great Grant are planning a JEDI movie as soon as UDDS X is complete, just for a bit of fun

DaveP · Post by **DaveP** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:53 pm

well, actually there was one webbie I once saw where U could buy lightsabres with cold cathode lights in unbreakable casings

BUT CGI is cheaper and looks better

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:33 pm

Using cgi is just sooo much easier

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:58 am

I've done three Star Wars fan films, got the insperation from www.theforce.net alot of great fan films there and others, but its actually quite fun, maybe I'll post my last one I did, about 2 years ago If I can find it.