Star Wars Bluray Edition Special Effects FLAW - goes down into history FOR EVER!!!!

[Shab0w]

Seriously... i think that this is possibly a animation-technique to make it look like they are really fast moving... or how you would do it as an animator.... there a around 25-30 frames a sec... you have to use tricks. :)

[jedighost72]

@Shab0w Your logic fails you young padawan, missing sword parts equal fast moving? Be mindful of your thoughts....

[davycrocketful]

nice point..but this action is so fast..you just cant see it..great action though..

[TheGuyThatsAwesome]

Does it honestly make a difference?

[ZomBeeZ88]

Te magyar vagy?Durva az akcentusod :D

[MBGamingLegends]

I noticed at normal speed, so maybe he just has great observational skills? Just because he noticed it doesn't necessarily mean he has "too much time on his hands".

[WookieRebellion501]

Well George Lucas sure fucked up, didn't he?

[TheMoviePresident]

Actually, this is what happened: To create lightsabers, a SFX artist must go frame by frame and rotoscope the blade. When the lightsaber goes behind the arm, you must trace around the obscured object. Someone must have gotten lazy and not traced the top of the arm. There are even WAY worse mistakes in Episode two.

Credibility: I have made a lightsaber fight on my channel.

[TheMoviePresident]

There's a scene in episode 3 where Anakin is wanting to kill Palpatine but doesn't. If you know anything about after effects you can see that the lightsaber is transparent through anakins body for a few frames

[ComanderScar]

Well ya it is a mistake, everyone makes them from time to time, and it is still a very cool fight in a cool movie and with very cool music, so who cares actually.

[knightschwartz]

good job. fuck ppl who call u a nerd for thus

[GOHANrider100]

forever is one word.

[crankjai]

This is another area where non-visible in normal time vision comes into play. Watching this clip in normal time is impossible to notice the gap of the blade because natural elements of vision prohibit the human eye from detecting it. A similar such happening is in sound editing where there are points of sound inaudible to human ears, yet on a mixing / editing /sfx rig it can be manipulated beyond

[CyanoKhaar]

There are hundreds of little flaws in every movie. Of course you'll notice them if you look hard enough.

[mitmaster]

definitely an artistic decision

[gnosis1967]

Have you nothing better to do...?

[gr187]

Everyone is saying good job and all....i think someone has WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY TOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FREE TIME on their hands to look for that

[LePatay]

Watched the entire movies frame by frame, eh? Good boy. THX deserves it.

[jedighost72]

@LePatay i didnt, i caught this at normal speed.

[DI3LAVADI3]

@jedighost72 i call bullshit on that...lol

[KillTheFear]

Good eye! I never would had caught that!

[jedighost72]

@comradeuk91 i'd rather like to attract some traffic.

[Jackster701]

i guess u hav alot of spare time

[jedighost72]

@Jackster701 not really, but had some...

[Jackster701]

wot a wierdo

[jedighost72]

@Jackster701 I'd rather call myself a good spotter

[looyee27]

i've done a fair bit of work with rotoscoping, and mistakes can be made now and then, but not for a film like this.

[jedighost72]

@looyee27 that is the point!

[Aquaspleen]

um...it's called USING THE FORCE...duh

[szczepanik325]

1. Computer doing VFX on it's own. Lulz.

2. They (ILM) aren't aware of it. Lulz. Roto artists or compositors are examining the whole sequence frame by frame.

3. You cannot see that missing part when you're watching this at normal speed.

4. "Weird" alignment of the blade could be done on purpose. For some extra "punch", or sth.

I don't think they could screw up something like that. Star Wars = Lucas. Lucas = ILM.

VFX done by computer alone - I'll never forget that :D

[jedighost72]

@szczepanik325 1., you know what i meant.

2., oh really? read the first notes under the video.

3., that is how i noticed it, not by slowing down.

4., BS. a laserblade would never be out of alignment.

This is just plain ignorant and should have been correctly done. End of discussion. :)

[Mozezrox]

umm... HUMANS do the special effects, WITH computers. the actual computer doesn't do the special effects on its own.

[leonarddaccardi]

well, exuuuuuuuzzzze me!!!!!!!

[mcoates04]

stupid mistake. and it IS a mistake. don't know why anyone is trying to defend it. IT IS A MISTAKE!

[jedighost72]

@mcoates04 EXACTLY!

[sik2dastar]

thanks you just ruined a iconic moment of my childhood (Y)

[Kainlarsen]

@sik2dastar If that's an iconic moment of your childhood, I pity you.

[bryanttillman]

nerd

[schwalbstar]

the new light sabers are more steady than the old ones. its just the old tech no flaw

[hal1992]

Eh, I've seen worse mistakes in the trilogies. It's really just too fast to even notice.

[julianzolo]

that was the dark side of the force clouding your vision, GET A LIFE, dude

[jedighost72]

@julianzolo got one. 220k visitors on Youtube.

[Jonesyboii96]

dont be so picky man, it doesnt matter, star wars is still the best movie saga in history, period.

[jedighost72]

@Jonesyboii96 true.

[RiFFxxx]

Barely noticeable at full speed.

[tikvision]

there's still ANOTHER rare bit, it happens at the scene when the generator room door opens and darth maul kicks obi wan to the left: take a good look at obi-wan's face! (it's a low resolution blurry picture of ewan mc gregor pasted on the stunt guy) HOPE YOU SEE IT AND POST IT

[tikvision]

I ALWAYS thought they were using those green sticks for this fight!

[dega]

not going to lie, its barely noticable when you watch the movie normally. im a huge star wars fan and im all good for perfection but i really dont see why this should bother anyone. you canbarely tell when you just watch the movie

[bsolmaz13]

Do you really think the special effect guys are going to make such a mistake in the final fight of a big budget movie? No way. This is done on purpose.

The back-to-front move by Obi-Wan goes by really fast and the viewer has to be able to follow the exact movement of the lightsaber or else they won't understand what happened. If you look closely, the original sword is mostly hidden behind Obi-Wan's back. So they tweak it to make the action easier on the eyes. It happens often in movies.

[jedighost72]

@bsolmaz13 that is just an excuse. i say BS. it should and could have been done properly!

[amazingonion]

Eh movie still sucks.

[GeekTroup]

omg, enough already. we get it. phantom sucked.

[brentras15]

you have to be the biggest nit for posting something like this, when u first watched the movie were you looking for stuff like this? your unreal, if u watch it in regular time, you dont notice anything, LOLFAIL YOUTUBE VIDEO

[jedighost72]

@brentras15 I did notice it in realtime, bro. I'm a sharpshooter. Obviously you are not.

[SpotTheSteez]

thats pittyfull cause thats the best fight in all of the films and that exchange between maul and obi wan where the goof happens is def the best saber exchange, they way shouldnt have messed it up like that.

[jedighost72]

@SpotTheSteez Exactly, you got my point.

[SillyScyllia]

get a life srsly >.> it's a 0,1 sec flaw

[jedighost72]

@SillyScyllia I dont care how small, but i noticed it in realtime.

[pafcden]

lucas owned.

[Gyarretto7]

Well, to be perfectly fair, everything in that scene's kinda moving too fast for a goof like that to be noticed. Well spotted though. I sure as hell didn't notice.

[jedighost72]

@Gyarretto7 an honest man's words.

[Kleavers]

Changing that will not change anything. But nice spotting this little error.

[jedighost72]

@Kleavers thanks!

[Shazeen82]

Húúú bazmeg nem is vagy magyar mi?

[jedighost72]

@Shazeen82 de. csak amíg van 15M magyar, addig van 1Milliárd angoul tudó a neten... Csak 60-szoros a különbség.

[Shazeen82]

@jedighost72 Nem is arra gondoltam barátom, csak naggyon "magyarul" beszéled az angolt :) kell egy kis külföldi gyakorlat és javulni fog :)

[nickdrummer2004]

They still have to paint it in there some animator probably missed it

[jedighost72]

@nickdrummer2004 probably.

[psychonaut25]

IT'S A TRAP!!!

[RicardoMusch]

Uhm, I don't know of any special computer that inserts the Lightsaber blades. The technique used for this is called RotoScoping. There were people (called roto artists) who painted or masked the blade on every frame. This could be a mistake, an artistic decision (because the motion didn't look natural) or a mishap in Mask Interpolation (in the end also a mistake)...

[jedighost72]

@RicardoMusch Can be. What do you mean by unnatural motion? In a sword fight? A blade is a blade, it is where it is, in my opinion it should be looking like a lightsabre blade, no matter what.

[RicardoMusch]

@jedighost72 I agree with you, but sometimes when RotoScoping a Lighsaber blade it just does not seem natural when you play back the footage. The saber is not just a blade that disappears or fans when you swing it on camera... it's become a white solid core wich doesn't have motion blur etc... So what seems natural with a normal blade can seem to be a weird movement when exposing the blade. I think this was just that...

[jedighost72]

@jedighost72 that is the point.

[jedighost72]

@RicardoMusch correct.

[brokendowngolfcart]

this guy is so right

[jedighost72]

@brokendowngolfcart thanks!

[sammycut1]

I see it. They should fix it but it goes so fast, they probably just aren't aware if it.

[jedighost72]

@sammycut1 Exactly! That is why i made this video.

[Howler54]

Meh, I've seen this movie a couple of times and I've never noticed it.

So does it really matter?

[taabuu2342]

@Howler54 Yeah ive never noticed this and ive seen this film tons of times. It just movies fast to take notice

[GBev2K]

This is interesting, but meaningless. I don't consider this a "flaw" I saw this in the theater 6 times, and a couple of times on DVD. Never noticed it. Doubtful I'll even think about it the next time I watch either.

[jedighost72]

@GBev2K Well, and I have noticed it right away - so people's alertness is different. Just because you haven't noticed it does not make it meaningless, or more meaningless than any other flaw or error that fans find. I'm a sharpshooter too, maybe that helps.

[teknokrat1]

wow, good spotting! i've never known this before. it's crazy that nobody noticed this... i thought every film has been gone over frame-by-frame by now.

[jedighost72]

@teknokrat1 I thought the same - and I have noticed the error while simply watching the DVD, not going thorugh it frame by frame, so I was shocked, nobody ever pointed this out. I must have good eyes then to have spotted this.