@Zalo10 On second thought, it has its uses. For example the film "A Scanner Darkly" uses this technique (well, a more advanced and less pain-in-the-butt version) for almost every shot. Some animation videos i´ve seen on Youtube use it in more creative ways. But for laser swords, just don´t.
@martinsupitis nope, extracted every frame using vegas, manually drew the laser over each one, then reassembled the video. That´s what rotoscopy usually is, if it was realtime it would be called "object tracking", "augmented reality" or something like that :).
super cool
darkgaze 8 months ago
Yeah, rotoscoping sucks, doesn't it?
Zalo10 8 months ago
@Zalo10 Pretty much yeah. Nowadays you do this via after effects. But i wanted to do it for the sake of doing it the old-fashioned way.
arkano22 8 months ago
@Zalo10 On second thought, it has its uses. For example the film "A Scanner Darkly" uses this technique (well, a more advanced and less pain-in-the-butt version) for almost every shot. Some animation videos i´ve seen on Youtube use it in more creative ways. But for laser swords, just don´t.
arkano22 8 months ago
real-time?
martinsupitis 8 months ago
@martinsupitis nope, extracted every frame using vegas, manually drew the laser over each one, then reassembled the video. That´s what rotoscopy usually is, if it was realtime it would be called "object tracking", "augmented reality" or something like that :).
arkano22 8 months ago
@arkano22 btw, if i´m right, its the exact same technique used to pull off the effect in the old star wars movies.
arkano22 8 months ago