Lightsaber After Effects

I rotoscoped a lightsaber effect using a couple of Adobe programs.
I know the sound is pretty off, but hopefully it's not TOO bad :)
Basically just a test.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lightsaber
• light
• saber
• rotoscope
• after
• effects
• test
• rodion
• khoruzhenko
• star
• wars
• starwars
• special
• fx
• adobe

[MaffiaRK]

@reeldeelpeel

Unfortunately, rotoscoping is still pretty much the only was to do it (so yeah, processing every frame). Occasionally you can get away with letting the program fill in the movement between several frames, but that only really works if it's barely moving, or moving in a very predictable arc. lol once you get into the rhythm of it, it can go pretty quickly though :P

[reeldeelpeel]

Rodion, do you have to key in the light saber on every frame, or is there an easier way to do it these days?

[MaffiaRK]

@RechargeableFox

Ah yes, a big battle using my broom...erm lightsaber! haha

[RechargeableFox]

Lol fun fun :P, Now you just need to get into a battle!

[MaffiaRK]

@Luiey

Haha thank you :)

I'm sure the awesome soundtrack made it seem better than it really was :P

[Luiey]

That was pretty good