Lightsaber Duel

A lightsaber duel that I choreographed for a fan film competition a couple of years ago at TheForce.net.

This was my first ever attempt at "film making" and boy does it show. I was responsible for the choreography, editing, and special effects. One of my friends who gave up his time for the project did the sound editing.

Thanks to A., S., & D. for their hard work, P. for the warehouse space, and thanks to my wife J. for her sacrifice in letting me try this flight of fancy.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Star
• Wars
• lightsaber
• duel
• choreography
• competition
• LCC
• fight
• Jedi
• Sith
• good
• bad
• rotoscope

[jediavatar]

I did use the tracking option, where you mark a starting frame and then an ending frame and then the program fills in the intermediate frames. However, that was not necessarily the most accurate thing. I still had to go in frame by frame and tweak it to get it to look right. I can't tell you how long it took me to do. Too painful! Thanks for the compliment!

[jediavatar]

tehgaff08, thank you for the nice words!

[jediavatar]

Not supposed to cast shadows... You are right.  But then again, lightsabers don't exist, so I will take that little issue lightly.

[nick14454]

wow! what did u use for saber props?

[jediavatar]

I had a few basic saber hilts a guy made for me out of delrin. They had set screws to hold in 1/2" fiberglass rods. They were cheap and really stood up to the beating. A bit whippy, but they worked! Oh, and the coolest thing about them (for me) was the smell they left in the air after a few good whacks... kind of a burning smell. It was weird, but I liked it!

[MrDibble07]

lol, the dude with the glasses looks like my 11th grade chemistry teacher!

[jediavatar]

Um, gee. Thanks?

Dear God, chemistry was 23 years ago... I'm getting old!

[talonschild]

The choreography is really, really good here. It might look a tad better at double speed, though. Especially the one-on-one sequences.

[paperpencil]

heyyy no fair! 3 against 1!! the Jedis are cheaters! >:O

[TheAlloyy]

This is what happens when The Matrix meets Star Wars...

[Acidhardstep]

Nice work! I would like to know if it was done frame by frame or if you used tracking data for the lightsabers. Yesterday I made my first short lightsaber video and it took 2 hours to create a 10 second movie :( (frame by frame)

[sacana456]

nice work guys

[MasterRamsobi]

@Silverbullet89: I mean that the lightsabers *themselves* do not have shadows. Like, if you shined a flashlight at the lightsaber, there would be no shadow behind it because the lightsaber's glow would cancel it out. Sorry for not being specific enough.

[ENTERPRIES1002]

I think i can kill all guys in this video with a non coreographed lightsaber duel :)

[Thx1138191]

I think the choreography could have been better.

[pupskannake]

wow thats cool =) nice work