Photoshop CS3 tutorial, Lightsaber rotoscoping

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Uploaded by on Feb 2, 2009

Quick Photoshop CS3 tutorial for rotoscoping a lightsaber. Rotoscoping multiple frames for a lightsaber video is very time consuming so recording an action that you can apply to multiple frames makes for less work.

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  • Yes, you can make an animation with this technique. It's called "rotoscoping" - suppose you take a short video of yourself swinging around a plastic sword. You can import the frames of the video clip into Adobe as layers. Then select the sword on each frame, and using the saved action I described in the video, put the saber effect on each frame. Then save the frames to pictures again and load them into the video software of your choice. Set to 24 fps, add sound, and you got it.

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  • you forgot to blur the saber. it looks fake.

  • that guy looked more 16th century.... just sayin

  • just subbed so would be cool to see more tuts up unless of course you have moved on to better things

  • ACTIONS --- awsome i did not know that was possible ta for the tip

  • ok, so i tried to do this as a video, but i didn't know how to put a video on it, so i had to learn that, but my camera films movies in .mov and photoshop wouldn't support that, so then i had to learn how to convert .mov's to .avi's, now i'm ready to watch the tutorial...

  • @messiprogila I've got a tut similar to this, where I teach you how to import a video into photoshop, apply the effect to the frames, then export it. I also use a technique which doesn't require multiple frames, which makes the process easier. Hope it helps.

  • Great tutorial, but I'm having a problem with doing multiple frames, just wanted to see if you know what's going on with mine; I record the action, it works for three or four more frames, but from then on the "FiLL" step is either skipped or not working. So basically I'm left with a blade-shaped hole in the frames, 'cause everything else runs like clockwork except the damn fill step. Any ideas?

  • The movie is "House of Flying Daggers" lol

  • HOW DO U MAKE IT MOVE IN A VIDEO???

  • only problem is the light saber is on wrong side of her crown

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