Motion 3 Tutorial : Lightsabers!!

[DCStudiosofficial]

when i make the shape of my mask it just shows the line and the screen stays white. why is this. do i have a setting on that i need turned off?

[Ba2coolkid]

How did u get that thing where u dropped down the stuff. I just have a timeline.

[Queltamas]

That’s awesome, now I finally really know how to make them. But if you have more than just one person in the scene with a stick (lightsaber), how do you make it for all of them at the same time. Im still new at Motion.

[jamaicanhobos14]

Thank YOU

[Penguinmanm]

thank u sooo much! this really helped!

[JWiggs187]

My lightsaber will not change colors, help please.

[wowrulz392]

@JWiggs187 Your comment was posted 3 months ago so I don't know if you figured it out yet or not, but I was having the same problem at school. After all of your layers have the color filter, just play around with the highlights. The midtones don't really seem to do anything.

[JWiggs187]

@wowrulz392 Ok, thanks a ton:)

[TheBoomdoom]

Lightsabers and lotion?

[MUNKYGOPOOf]

Thanks Eric :D

[adamtobit]

Why do I have nothing in my contents folder?

Please Reply.

[wesleypiglover]

@adamtobit nor do i, im guessing that you got this the same way as I did - illegally?? and that'll be why :/

[imflol]

i'm sorry i want to have it to but where can jou download it becouse i don't heart it so good:$

[Gribbster33]

really good video. helped me alot!

[cbarrett83]

I'm very familiar with After Effects (CS5). I prefer FCP over Premiere though. I'm considering moving exclusively to FCP Studio and using Motion for my special effects needs. Does Motion have lightning effects and the various special effects that After Effects has become known for. Also, anybody that has used AE and Motion which do you prefer?

[AlexsTechChannel]

@cbarrett83 Yeah motion does have lighting effects

[chazfest]

Awesome tutorial dude.

You've really helped me to make the initial transition into Shake as well, always found it very unfamiliar and daunting. Your tutorials just make sense, always a pleasure :)

[dylanbriz19]

hey can u do a tutorial on one of the hp hands on commercial things where they move the screens and stuff

[xpeterdudex]

so, we are saying that we can do this same effect with:

After effects, Apple Motion, Shake, and I guess Nuke can do it too.

Which are the differences?

[KillerCam88]

isnt it possible to motion track the sword or stick, instead of editing frame by frame?

[v11o]

Man in video says no :(

[xpeterdudex]

@KillerCam88 i think it's possible to do that in aple color, but I don't know if you can get the same effect

[Jakob123L]

Nice tutorial. But your mouse has an ugly click sound on this. ;)

[ZaneProductionsTRC]

how do you have 2 lightsabers with different colors?

[TCatBRproductions]

@ZaneProductionsTRC Just do the whole clip with one color, and render your movie.  Then you will import the movie into motion and do the same process with a different color.

[Pverm]

why not make a green lightsaber, and use it as a green"screen"?

[mdgnys]

@Pverm With the motion of the lightsaber it will never get a solid color, and it will have the overflow of the possibly bad chroma key job. Unless you have a camera with an extremely high frame rate, and a large lightsaber, it wont work too well, and you also wont get the feather effect.

[lorindmiller2000]

Most studios do motion capturing for any scenes they plan on roto scoping.... The first films to use this technique as a rule was, the Two Towers... for the golum character.

[Skutz0r]

Eric do you have After effects? if you do could you do a tutorial for it? on lightsabers that is

[10thPlanetJiuJitsu]

thanks

[volodenka19]

Это плохое качество видео

[cj64thedirector]

were do i download this for mac

[MysticAFI]

It's not free.

[coinman723]

it comes in final cut studio 2. which costs 1299.99. i have it

[hellomimoto]

you don't... you buy it in a box worth $1000

or like $300 at a store

[wfryer]

Nice job! I've wondered how to do this and I'm glad to see the demo. How tedious! Certainly makes you appreciate those long light saber duels in the later Star Wars movies.

[stevensonrf]

Thanks, Eric for this Motion tutorial on LS!