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CR-Tutorials Special-Star Wars 2/3-Lightsaber Effect

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Adam's tutorial on a free Lightsaber Effect!Make sure you watch the other parts of this special

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21 comments

Aug 12, 2011. 5:52 PMfunnydan says:

Can you use adobe photoshop or illustrator?

Feb 15, 2010. 4:39 PMhellking says:

Can i use a tube to represent lightsaber

Mar 16, 2010. 2:47 PMIridium7 says:

Yeah. most people use it for referancee

Oct 27, 2010. 9:17 AMAlternateLives says:

I might even add some brightly-colored tape (such as blaze orange) on the ends of the tube. it will make tracking easier in post.

May 27, 2009. 4:27 PMairfreak2 says:

Did you try after affects and permire i have it an im only 12. it makes lightsbers easyer. but i thing the pack for both is like $1000

Jun 30, 2009. 10:33 PMkimro says:

yo don't need to spend that much you can do it all in blender 3d and blender is free look it up http://www.blender.org/

Oct 17, 2010. 1:28 PMAlternateLives says:

but blender has a pretty steep learning curve.

Oct 17, 2010. 1:26 PMAlternateLives says:

Rotoscoping (the technique you used) takes way too long in most productions.

It is much easier to use a program to animate the lightsaber using a technique known as Motion Tracking. you pick one or more points (for the lightsaber, I would pick two - one at the tip and one at the hilt) and the program will track the motion of those two points. you can then insert the lightsaber effect on the blade, and it will follow the tracked points. you just saved yourself 5 hours!

Motion Tracking is supported in Anime Studio 6 lite, which will cost you 30 bucks. really cheap.

Apr 8, 2010. 8:41 AMandrewcool111 says:

star war is cool how you made it i will try it out.

Mar 31, 2010. 9:44 AMfloryzzz says:

its nice with a photo buth this to much work for a film

Feb 12, 2010. 8:28 PMbillyjoe43yo says:

hey. sorry but lsmaker is much easier

Aug 2, 2009. 6:10 PMboombabyyeah says:

Where are you from? You have an interesting accent.

Oct 22, 2009. 1:19 PMteamcoltra says:

I dont want to be rude, but I think its an impediment. I have a lisp, so its not like I am putting him down. Just saying. not being able to pronounce 'th's is not part of any accents that I know of.

Oct 3, 2009. 2:45 PMtahirhh says:

i tink its an irish accent

Aug 20, 2009. 2:51 AMspn_phoenix_92 says:

mhippo's right, it is alot easier to use the shift-click option than drawing the blade. also, I found that it looks much better if you color all 3 layers, just coloring the outside layer makes it too dim & pale. One more thing, is there a FREE program that can export all frames of a video into a folder for you instead of having to take a snapshot of every frame? i hate doing it that way.

Oct 9, 2009. 4:42 PMHonestinwilkesbarre says:

WAX 2.0
Kinda old, a little buggy and it appears it's not updated any more. But it's free,easy to use and you can do effects like light sabers without all the switching between apps.

Mar 18, 2009. 8:45 PMrootbeerben3 says:

Have you tried lsmaker

May 3, 2009. 2:04 PMChemicalReaction (author) says:

It comes with too many viruses

Sep 18, 2009. 1:01 PMRMConstruction says:

Nuh uh. Not Where i got it from, and if you want it just tell me your e-mail and i'll zip and send it, feel free to scan it. And by the way, i use Adobe Premier and Adobe Photoshop.

Jun 9, 2009. 8:17 AMmhippo says:

I find that it's easier to draw the blade using the paintbrush and shift-clicking (to draw a straight line) than to make a straight blade using the freestyle select brush.

Mar 21, 2009. 10:09 AMInstructoguy12125 says:

COOL!