Compositing: lightsaber test

[Benken]

it looks good, just like the movies!:buttrock:

[Tommi]

Would you mind to post some screenshots or at least a smaller version of the video (smaller in file size).

Thanks! :wavey:

[Chappo]

Very cool.....with shadows and everythin :)

It would be cool to see an in-depth tutorial on this ;)

[Pauler]

well really nice :D
great composing, but hey, its a lightsaber ? why there is a shadow ?

;D
think about it ;)
sure it looks cool but i dunno if its correct

[elvis75k]

AWESOME!! The shadows, the glow.... Why don't you make a better coreography - maybe you and you with a camenra in movement...

(Hope you understand my bad English)

[GeneralChaos]

damn thats sweet. how did you do it?

[juanmiguel]

tks for the input guys.
now that you mention the shadows, well i'm not really sure if the lightsabers produce shadows or not. well.

A tutorial? , well if there is enough people interested on it i would write one. I would enjoy to share it with you guys.

A better coreography? yeah my idea was to make a fighting scene but unfortunally i don't know people that like CG like me, so i couldn't find some one to help me :( .

An screeshoot. of course, here it is.

lightsaber screenshoot (http://sv2.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/attachment.php?s=&postid=185200)


all coments welcome
tks guys

[Barry]

I don't see why it wouldn't cast a shadow. Fire casts a shadow. Cool effect by the way.

[Gentle Fury]

Originally posted by juanmiguel
hi, this is not 3d but it's CG.
I made a quick test for simulating a lightsaber effect, i didn't put much detail or atention to the lighting or shadows since it was just aquick test, i didn't want to expend to much time on it, it took 3 hrs from shooting the video to this stage.

all comments welcome guys, tks



(rightclick and save target as)
MY LIGHTSABER VIDEO TEST (http://home.attbi.com/~juanmiguel/lightsaber.mpg)

ummmm, just quoted this because people keep mentioning the shadow........well had you read the original post it would all become clear ;)

[jizzypop]

i might be wrong but im pretty sure the lightsaber blade casts shadows in the movies.

[OpTiX]

i would love a tutorial for this..! :bounce: :thumbsup:

[BiTMAP]

why would they cast a shadow, they emit more light then the surrounding, frig the glow! they did for sure cast a glare and a light glow, so perhaps the wall behind you should be getting lit up by it ... but otherwise that is amazing :D

[Nath]

Nice lightsaber. Couple of suggestions, though:

Maybe the blade should be a little thicker and longer. Also, the central thingy might need to be a bit blurred. And in some shots in the movie the base is wide -- especially while putting the thing on or off.

[piajartist]

pretty cool. very realistic, slightly slow guessing to avoid choppy effect

[Pauler]

wheres the tutorial :bounce: :bounce:
please write one if u have some spare time ...

[juanmiguel]

gentle fury: tks man very nice of you.


nath:i made a thicker version but i liked more the thinner one, may be it's just me , and i don't know what do you mean with the central thingy, you mean the handle of the saber? tks for the input man.

piajarist: tks for the comments man, it's slow coze i'm not like an actor or anything, so i was unsure of what moves i should go for, so i just did some slow swings lol , my original idea was to make a fighting scene with a blade going thru one of the guys and killing him, but i couldn't find actors that could help me out, that's way the coreography and the video itself sucks :( .

pauler ,optix : i'll try to wite a small tutorial on this, and i'll post the link in this thread.

tks for all the input guys.

[Nath]

i don't know what do you mean with the central thingyI mean the blade of the lightsaber.

I found a couple of tutorials:
Premiere and Photoshop (http://www.theforce.net/theater/software/premiere/rotoscoping/rotoscoping_finley.shtml)
After Effects (http://www.theforce.net/theater/postproduction/sabres/sabertutorials.html)

[Zenvideo]

if you want some hard core crits on that I suggest you go to www.theforce.net/theater/ and go into the forums. People have been doing ILM quality sabers for a while there now (notes not necisarily EP2 since some people have issues with the sabers in that film). But a chap by the name of Ryan Wieber has a VERY good tutorial on lightsabers in After effects, linked above I beleive. As well as photoshop. I suggest you follow them and you will achieve superior results.

[xzevlin]

The rotoscoping is nice and tight. Nice job!

If anyone's interested in another tutorial, here's one I wrote for making sabers in particleIllusion after people kept asking if it was possible. The effect is a little rougher looking than the Premiere or AE methods (the saber breaks apart on really fast swings), but it's alot faster to do

http://www.shockingtales.com/illusion/tuts/lightsaber.html

[Ocean Size]

Looks good man, the light saber glow looks nice. My only problem is that it looks like there is some lag and this causes the light/laser to look a bit bent from the handle, but it looks pretty real. Good work so far.

[martinkruegger]

I can´t believe it, you own a real lightsaber :applause:

[WhiteMeat]

excellent work, 3d or not...compositting is what they stress at my school as well as 3d and lighting...i'm very interested in seeing a tutorial, or at least a brief description as to what you did...(targa sequence or what not)

only 2 things i'd comment on have been said, that being the scale of the lightblade, and perhaps to add a motion blur of sorts to the center...

excellent work

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