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

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

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

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funnydan says: Aug 12, 2011. 5:52 PM

Can you use adobe photoshop or illustrator?

hellking says: Feb 15, 2010. 4:39 PM

Can i use a tube to represent lightsaber

Iridium7 says: Mar 16, 2010. 2:47 PM

Yeah. most people use it for referancee

AlternateLives says: Oct 27, 2010. 9:17 AM

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.

airfreak2 says: May 27, 2009. 4:27 PM

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

kimro says: Jun 30, 2009. 10:33 PM

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/

AlternateLives says: Oct 17, 2010. 1:28 PM

but blender has a pretty steep learning curve.

AlternateLives says: Oct 17, 2010. 1:26 PM

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.

andrewcool111 says: Apr 8, 2010. 8:41 AM

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

floryzzz says: Mar 31, 2010. 9:44 AM

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

billyjoe43yo says: Feb 12, 2010. 8:28 PM

hey. sorry but lsmaker is much easier

boombabyyeah says: Aug 2, 2009. 6:10 PM

Where are you from? You have an interesting accent.

teamcoltra says: Oct 22, 2009. 1:19 PM

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.

tahirhh says: Oct 3, 2009. 2:45 PM

i tink its an irish accent

spn_phoenix_92 says: Aug 20, 2009. 2:51 AM

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.

Honestinwilkesbarre says: Oct 9, 2009. 4:42 PM

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.

rootbeerben3 says: Mar 18, 2009. 8:45 PM

Have you tried lsmaker

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

It comes with too many viruses

RMConstruction says: Sep 18, 2009. 1:01 PM

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.

mhippo says: Jun 9, 2009. 8:17 AM

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.

Instructoguy12125 says: Mar 21, 2009. 10:09 AM

COOL!