Lightsabre battle

HEADRAT · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:02

panthro said:
that is so geeky it hurts.

"I find your lack of faith distrubing"

EXCELLENT

Rich1988 said:
just looks a bit homogay to me tbh :/

everything that posted always seems to labelled "homogay" ATM, we might just as well have a homogay responder to every post but I guess that would probaby be too "homogay" :rolleyes:

HEADRAT

homerio · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:26

Reminds me of a party I went to with my mates that had some epic light sabre battles

iJedi · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:29

I think stuff like this is cool especially as it looks like theyve put some work into it, another fan film i recomend is called "art of the sabre" some great moves in that aswell, im at work atm so cant get you the link

ExRayTed · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:34

iJedi said:
I think stuff like this is cool especially as it looks like theyve put some work into it, another fan film i recomend is called "art of the sabre" some great moves in that aswell, im at work atm so cant get you the link

This is the film I linked to earlier

ExRayTed said:
Try this link too for more sabre action

Although you have to endure the poncy music and commentary at the start..

http://fxhome.com/cinema/info_cache/movieinfo479.html

I didn't state the title though,do'h

ExRayTed · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:42

Ooh found another link to some fan vids

I'm downloading atm.

Linky

I thought Phantom Menace was worth the entry price for the Maul fight alone..I've always loved the idea of lightsabres

When I was young I sort of melded my two favourite things into a cool 'don't mess with me' posture..With my lightsabre drawn (A table leg) I'd utter to anyone that came near 'Don't make me angry...you wouldn't like me when I'm angry'

Lou Ferringo had a lot to answer for...

iJedi · 13 Mar 2006 at 15:29

ExRayTed said:
This is the film I linked to earlier

I didn't state the title though,do'h

ah it is a kool vid, cant click on all the links as im at work

Dazzy_G · 13 Mar 2006 at 16:13

thats a boody brillient video there. i so want a lightsabre

D_Brasted · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:15

ExRayTed said:
Ooh found another link to some fan vids I'm downloading atm.

Here're the filims from the third contest too...
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/story/Lightsaber_Choreography_Contest_III_88749.asp

The site I linked to earlier for the high-res version of the video in the OP is up again: http://download.theforce.net/theater/fxprojects/ryandork/ryan_vs_dorkman_480.mov

doodah · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:23

MasterMike said:
Ryan vs Dorkman is a great saber fight - visual effects geeks like me have seen this film years ago They weren't fighting with ForceFX sabers - they were using aluminium rods. The effects were done in Adobe After Effects, it's a fairly simple method of a four-point mask keyframed, duplicated and blurred. I've done it myself loads of times.

just started using premiere, and in process of downloading after effects trial. how simple is simple then?

Eliot · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:46

cyKey said:
Ah but does that one have realistic sound and lighting?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2981984638170555424&q=lightsaber

Those models are called Force FX lightsabers by Master Replicas. You can even get Mace Windu's pink/purple one for Otacon

Available from here for £89.95

some of them can be found for 59.99 for a very famous but unobvious site.

ZXSpectrum · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:06

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid

MasterMike · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:42

dbappa said:
just started using premiere, and in process of downloading after effects trial. how simple is simple then?

Once you've got the hang of it it's easy. If you're going to get into visual effects matte creation by masking is soimething you're going to have to learn anyway.

Basically it involves using a tool to create some points around your lightsaber prop (or in the case of my video, just guessing where a lightsaber would be in the abscense of a prop blade). You then set this to keyframe, and go through each frame of your footage, moving the four points to where the lightsaber is in that frame. Time consuming, but not as time consuming as the method for doing them in the original trilogy!

Garp · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:40

dbappa said:
just started using premiere, and in process of downloading after effects trial. how simple is simple then?

Hopefully, this site might be helpful:
http://www.alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/

manveruppd · 13 Mar 2006 at 23:44

I am told the kid who made that worked on the KOTOR2 cutscenes. They were fools to let him go if you ask me! :eek:

doodah · 14 Mar 2006 at 00:08

MasterMike said:
Basically it involves using a tool to create four points around your lightsaber prop (or in the case of my video, just guessing where a lightsaber would be in the abscense of a prop blade). You then set this to keyframe, and go through each frame of your footage, moving the four points to where the lightsaber is in that frame. Time consuming, but not as time consuming as the method for doing them in the original trilogy!

Garp said:
Hopefully, this site might be helpful:
http://www.alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/

Cheers

doodah · 14 Mar 2006 at 22:05

wow its is quite simple. just done a very basic one with premiere and photoshop.