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Vi3tBoi53 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/21/05 9:30pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects - Date Edited: 8/21/05 9:35pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Vi3tBoi53
	For you guys with dial-up or still downloading the tutorial. Here is the difference. Old Method: New Method: If you can't see the difference, I shall explain. On the new method, the blur actually keeps going instead of stopping when it gets to the end of the frame. The blurs are also different. Not really easy to understand. I couldn't find a better way to explain. -----signature----- I feel sorry for the people that takes hours and hours to fall asleep. It's so easy for me to fall asleep. In fact, I could fall asleep right now on my keybo-kajdfiuwakjnskafnjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
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1337mik3 Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 8/21/05 9:35pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Vi3tBoi53 Thanks for the side by side. Cool to see how much better it looks. -----signature----- aim/videomik3 http://www.MichaelFrisk.com It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. -Aristotle
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Sith-Lord_James Registered: Dec '03	Date Posted: 8/21/05 9:59pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects - Date Edited: 8/21/05 9:59pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Sith-Lord_James
	Very nice tutorial there, Ryan. An improvement on the last one because your previous video tutorials taught only how to rotoscope images as opposed to the more frequently used footage. I look forward to experimenting with this method and hopefully coming up with some useful tweaks to it. By the way, I noticed you're using a Windows machine now. -----signature----- ...Wait, what?
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BigOlaf-aka-TheSarge Registered: Sep '04	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:19pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	...you son-of-a.... you've been holding back on us. All, this time... And I just finished my first full rotoscoped movie.... JEEZ! Just kiddin'. BTW, "Do watchya gotta do"... is my new catch-phrase. -----signature----- Check out the videos i made: http://www.youtube.com/user/BigOlaf I am definately more famous than you... Vote Obama for President, 2008
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toocoolkid Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:24pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects - Date Edited: 8/21/05 10:50pm (1 edits total) Edited By: toocoolkid
	awesome tutorial!! and this way for lightsaber fighting is much easier so i have to keyframe and go frame by frame after i make the glow?
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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:30pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Sounds like a good way to do it, Zap. I'll give it a try sometime. That's why I always say to experiment and tweak, etc. Tutorials shouldn't be folloed explicitly. It's always good to find cool ways to do things (like that) and use the aspects that you like from different methods. For instance you could definitely roto that way and use it as the roto layer fo rhtis method if you wanted to. Those comparion pictures are cool, but really, with tweaking, you could get whatever look you like with either method. They're mostly the same. It's chiefly a matter of how to organize your composition to achieve the effect. For my work on Three In The Afternoon, for instance, most shots were using like 6 glow layers with dropping opacities, as opposed to just 3 or 4 glow layers. The method is just a framework for you using your glow layers in your own preferred ways. The sabers in the ROTS game are technically part of the character models, and not an effect. Thusly, I didn't work on them. -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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Shadow_of_Evil Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:41pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Hey ryan, If you work at LucasFilm, Did you do the lightsabers in the ROTS videogame? Since when did Ryan work for LucasFilm? -----signature----- I love climbing, because it feels so good when I stop....
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Dako Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:44pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Long time no see Ryan. This tutorial looks interesting. Downloading... -----signature----- Working on rotoscoping my LCC4 Entry 3. A couple more fight scenes to do, then the closeups and wide shots. Lightsaber Sound FX Uber Addict!
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BigOlaf-aka-TheSarge Registered: Sep '04	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:48pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Hey... I think I've seen you before, Ryan... weren't you in National Treasure? The Main Character? or were you the guy in that, "Ryan vs. Dorkman" movie? I can never tell you two apart. -----signature----- Check out the videos i made: http://www.youtube.com/user/BigOlaf I am definately more famous than you... Vote Obama for President, 2008
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toocoolkid Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/21/05 10:49pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	can u pause in this tutorial? that tutorial rocks even though it is a longer process than your old one. it is the first video tutorial that shows you how to do two lightsabers!! awesome tutorial!!! good job ryan-w
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DarthLowBudget Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/21/05 11:03pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Coolness, I love the new work flow, that additive layers trick never would've occured to me (without intensive thought) so thanks on that. BTW, Pardon my ignorance, but what is Three in the Afternoon? -----signature----- "We Will Spread Rational Inquiry By The Sword!" I may be wrong but I am NEVER in doubt.
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the_BLIND_apprentice Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 8/21/05 11:07pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Wow, great method. I think that it gives you a lot more control over the appearance of the lightsaber than your previous method... For example, by adjusting levels on the topmost adjustment layer, you can easily choke or expand the feather with a single slider. There are probably loads of different ways of tweaking the sabre to create cool effects and/or better results. Again, great method Ryan. ~Alex -----signature----- http://www.alexrlevy.com
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DarthLowBudget Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/21/05 11:08pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects - Date Edited: 8/21/05 11:13pm (1 edits total) Edited By: DarthLowBudget
	EDIT: Damn my internet is screwing the hell up. -----signature----- "We Will Spread Rational Inquiry By The Sword!" I may be wrong but I am NEVER in doubt.
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Brodie-Wan_Kenobi Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 8/21/05 11:11pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	I hope I'm not the only one who almost laughed out loud at "Uh-OH, what happENED?". Great tutorial, gotta try it out. -----signature----- Yes, I realize I registered in May of 2005. My opinion is still valid. "Brodie-Wan_Kenobi the funniest 05er I know!" - Ellbobin, Associated Press
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Ryan_W Title: Fan Films: Emmy-Winning Lightsaber Geek Registered: Aug '01	Date Posted: 8/21/05 11:16pm Subject: RE: New lightsaber video-tutorial for After Effects
	Three In The Afternoon -----signature----- http://www.RyanVsDorkman.com http://www.twitter.com/RyanWieber
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