Lightsaber test (DV)

[Dreamwave]

wow damn that looks cool!!! :buttrock: :eek: :cool:

[iNFERNiS]

sweet! what soft did u use for the saber?

[FerdiWillemse]

Thanks guys!
I did the lightsaber as followed:

I shot myself with a rubber pipe (i know :annoyed: but I didn't have anything solid around this place). I used the pipe as reference for the motion blur and for the direction .

After that I I broke my video into a TGA sequence and started painting my lightsaber frame by frame in photoshop using the reference of the rubber pipe.

I tried other ways before like motion tracking in after effect but the results never satisfied me. Thanks for your comments peeps!

[Trommeldaris]

Wow , nicely done m8 :applause:

Gonna try that too as soon as i figured out what you did in photoshop exactly

[KOBALT_KORE]

:eek: Frame by frame?! :surprised You're insane ;)
Good work though - it looks like the 'real' ones :thumbsup:

[nervous_twitch]

Looks pretty good. The tip seems to be a bit flat though.

Try this (http://www.bluetemptation.com/lia/index.html)

[FerdiWillemse]

Trommeldaris: I'll show you how in a few minutes
KOBALT_KORE: I am insane:bounce:
nervous twitch: Nice, I've tried it, but it's too much work for an animation. And I think I can controle the lightsaber better my way. Thanks anyway ;)

[NemesisFIN]

Have you seen that Lightsaber tutorial on http://www.theforce.net/

[FerdiWillemse]

NemesisFin: No I didn't? I looked for it but can't find it... Do you have a specific adress?

http://www.waypoint-informatisering.nl/ferdi/df2r/pics/tut_saber.jpg

How to:
1) Select the region where the motion blur is.
Make a new layer called 'lightsaber'. Give your selection a feather depending on the amount of blur.
2) Fill the selection with a white color.
3) Give it a glow like I did.
4) The result :)

I hope it helps you, oh and sorry for the compression quality.

[NemesisFIN]

Here you go http://www.theforce.net/theater/tutorials.shtml

[seb4d]

Hi !
An easy and faster method is to rotoscope the motion of the lightsaber in a compositing application like AfterEffects.
We did it at school and it's very fast and you get astounding results.

[BoERS]

Guess what... there is an even easier and FASTER way to do this... see my post here, http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38211

[Titan]

I did this photoshop comp a while back to test out lightsabre techniques as well..you can get some good results using photoshop...this is derived from the after effects roto tut.

http://www.u-238.com/titan/media_uploads/jedi_kelli.jpg

[lerpiedood]

Ahh ****, should have seen this post earlier, I made a lightsaber effect for school project, the hard way, yestorday, and it took me 6 hours! and looked like shit

[commy]

cool! looks good i did a project a year ago and we did a fight to illustrate various special effects and i drew them on frame by fram and i like the effect theres a slight flicker and it looks nicer in my opinion btw 1000 frames each containing 3 blades i hand drew over 3000 blades took me awhile!

[FerdiWillemse]

Hey guys, thanks again for your comments!
I've tried rotoscoping, tracking and many other things before with rather dissapointing results. That's why I gave it a try - the hard way.

I still think frame by frame is the best way, also to get the motion blur look like the 'real ones'.

I found someone who to volunteer have a lightsaber dual with me, so that's going to be fun :)

[Trommeldaris]

Hehe, cant wait to see that movie.. im gonna try my on movie in a few minutes, :D

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