Tutorial: Handling objects in front of lightsabers VERY FAST

A short tutorial that's supposed to save you some time when handling lightsaber obscurities. Hopefully, this will speed up your future rotoscoping work!

Ryan Wieber's (pretty excellent) Lightsaber Tutorial: http://www.ryan-w.com/ryan-w/clips/sabertut05.mov

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Film & Animation

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• tutorial
• lightsabers
• ryan w. ryan
• wieber
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• peter
• gerri

[Surakemastura]

Awesome tutorial, but can you please explain what happens at 1:48? How do you turn the opacity of the lightsaber to 100% again, without the black brushes re-appearing?

[PeGeProd]

I set the opacity back to 100%, that's it. The brushes won't appear black in the first place because your lightsaber blade should be set to the "Screen" transfer mode anyway, which means that black spots won't show but simply disappear.

You can only see the black strokes while you're actually drawing them. You can see in this tutorial that the instant I'm done with drawing a stroke and release the mousebutton, the black stroke disappears.

[bouchandre]

the paint and vector paint is not in cs5 :(

[PeGeProd]

Really?? What a shame!!

However, if you happen to have an older version of After Effects around (like CS4), maybe you can copy the VectorPaint.aex file from the effects folder to the plug-ins folder of your new version. It should work, I guess, but haven't tried it since our college won't get CS5 before fall.

[phantombest1220]

@silva22ful  sadly there isn't vector paint in cs5

[silva22ful]

where i found the vector paint in the after effects cs5?

[mageXtreme]

i use a Alpha-matte 'inverted' mask to do this...

[FilmIdentity]

where did you get that clip? can you send me a link?

[RikuDeepDive]

@PeGeProd ah a noobie mistake on my part. i forgot that when you do larger strokes it takes a bit to apply it to the comp. thanks again :)