The Emperor Reborn

Here's my first attempt at animating two characters in the same scene in the form of a lightsaber show, complete with lightsaber glow, motion blur, and fire effects. Perhaps the most challenging part of the project was scripting two different motion flow files for each of the characters, finding the right character meshes to represent Sith apprentices, and arranging the subdued lighting to create a dark, sinister atmosphere.

This project was the final for my Character Animation class which uses 3d studio max, and took a total of 32 weeks to complete. For half of that time I collaborated with my animation colleague, Mundus. We're both into Egyptology, archeology and all that ancient temples stuff and of course lightsaber battles, so we thought about combining our ideas. This project is the result. Mundus focused mainly on the modeling, while I concentrated on the animation parts.

Also included is a shuttle fly-by and a Coruscant-style city.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• star
• wars
• lightsaber

[SilentShooter563]

are those girls supposed to be fighting at 4:55-6:25?

[surfdawg5]

No, they're only supposed to be demonstrating their lightsaber skills to the emperor. The motion capture files provided to me from the professor were very limited. I only had about 5 'swordplay' mocap files to work with, which makes it difficult to imitate actual human movement. I like my second version better.

[LifesSuck]

great video but TERRIBLE LIGHTSBAER fight they never touched.

[nastylilgremlin]

The idea at the start is pretty good but the whole animation after it is rather pointless.

[TheCabbage90]

Excellent animation. Still not sure about the later music like Halo but it's your animation. The lightsaber duel was pretty good (from what I gather from the other comments they were proving their skill, correct?) it may have been better if they were both doing the same moves in unison (or were they, I couldn't tell).

Good story too. :)

[gablol25]

look the video is good but the animation was horrible and the lightsaber fight? horrible too

[MynSWproductions]

Halo music??? XD

[Nikkibrother2]

Halo 3 Music at 4:33 jajaj

[saswannabe17]

Blizzard music in a star wars video? Makes me want to kill kittens.

[legoarmy8]

great movie with animation but you need to improve the lightsaber battle. but that was your first try

[LordoftheJedi1138]

Well, since there is really no way to tell where he came from, maybe that Egyptian architecture says that he was born in Egypt. (Most likely untrue, but it is just a wild guess).

[ape991100]

why do i hear warcraft music at 2:44