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drewjmore  665 posts
Registered: Aug '07
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Date Posted: 7/2 10:40am Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread - Date Edited: 7/2 10:44am (1 edits total) Edited By: drewjmore
You get a <notworthy> if you can, without cheating, recall the YT- designation. thinking

Anyway, here's my image with a standard RyanW.
Washed my beams back to sharp, solid color masks, and thriced-up the layers.
core-blur=2; glow1=5, glow2=10, glow3=20.


it's a 4 hour render to get the video, I'll wait a while and tweak a few other issues before I re-run it.

 

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VaporTrail  9951 posts
Registered: May '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 4:30pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread - Date Edited: 7/2 4:47pm (2 edits total) Edited By: VaporTrail
YT-2400 Corellian freighter.
Not to be mistaken with the YT-2000, known as the Otana in the X-Wing Alliance series. And the Falcon is YT-1300.

Didn't even need the "YT" hint to be reminded.
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Saber looks better. Seems like the your core is thickened though, that's a side effect of having the all layers so small. The 5px layer is probably the culprit, try turning that one off and see if you like it. Maybe even turn it into a heavily blurred layer with the opacity cranked way down to help add with ambience.
The glow itself looks pretty good.

 

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drewjmore  665 posts
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Date Posted: 7/2 4:46pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread


as promised
wink

And for the extra credit responses:

 

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StormTrooper1776  1463 posts
Registered: Mar '04
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Date Posted: 7/2 9:16pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread - Date Edited: 7/2 9:17pm (1 edits total) Edited By: StormTrooper1776
Blue and Green



Purple and Red



Orange and Yellow

 

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Vidina  2986 posts
Registered: Jan '06
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Date Posted: 7/3 5:40am Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
those, on the other hand, do not look good.

why? the glow drops off way too hard, and the colors are kinda 'meh'. The yellow and orange one especially, considering it looks more like yellow-ish and green-ish.

 

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drewjmore  665 posts
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Date Posted: 7/5 5:53am Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
drewjmore posted:

(full video, ~1 minute)


Same link, new render. Thoughts?

 

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Kaat  1461 posts
Registered: Apr '04
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Date Posted: 7/5 12:30pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
Pretty short, but I like it:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIe2A-SnXlY

The blues are a bit too dark, but I think that the red blade turned out fine.

 

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drewjmore  665 posts
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Date Posted: 7/5 5:08pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
I liked the breakdown you posted for that scene's FX.

IMO your fans are overkill.
Without studying the original footage (to see how much blur is on the prop-blades) I'd prefer about 50-75% of the shutter duration you're simulating there.

 

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Kaat  1461 posts
Registered: Apr '04
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Date Posted: 7/5 6:42pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
Yeah, I see where you're coming from and you're probably right. The problem is that the original footage was pretty LoRes and I had to deinterlace it, so there was much... inter-frame-blending, so to say. In other words, the lightsaber fanned out very much, and my rotoscoping was actually rather accurate. I still agree, though.

drewjmore posted:
I liked the breakdown you posted for that scene's FX.

Thanks. grin

 

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Ricky_Calrissian  197 posts
Registered: Nov '08
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Date Posted: 7/5 7:24pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread - Date Edited: 7/5 7:24pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Ricky_Calrissian
Very nice Kaat! I'd have to agree the fanning at times is a bit much, but altogether I'd say very well done. You should try one step more and animate Obi-wan's body out at the end, because otherwise people will know the force doesn't exist...

 

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VaporTrail  9951 posts
Registered: May '02
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Date Posted: 7/5 7:43pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
drewjmore posted:
drewjmore posted:

(full video, ~1 minute)


Same link, new render. Thoughts?

Lookin' good to me. Seems to fit the shot pretty well.

 

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drewjmore  665 posts
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Date Posted: 7/5 10:29pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread - Date Edited: 7/5 10:33pm (1 edits total) Edited By: drewjmore
Thank you sir. 1 minute down, 45 to go.
Well, only 5 of roto.

Hay, anybody up for doing a few shots?

Stuff's all up on vimeo, just raise a hand...

 

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StormTrooper1776  1463 posts
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Date Posted: 7/14 4:20am Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread











 

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moosemousse  13344 posts
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Date Posted: 7/21 5:48pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this question, but here goes.

I have DAZ|Studio 3 and a lightsabre model for it. The only problem with the model is that the blade doesn't glow. Does anyone know how I can take the 3D model and make it glow? I have Blender but it doesn't seem to work and I have a zip file containing the model files, so I can pass it on to someone who can do it for me.

 

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BruceM  1796 posts
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Date Posted: 7/21 5:54pm Subject: The Lightsaber Effects Thread
moosemousse posted:
I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this question, but here goes.

I have DAZ|Studio 3 and a lightsabre model for it. The only problem with the model is that the blade doesn't glow. Does anyone know how I can take the 3D model and make it glow? I have Blender but it doesn't seem to work and I have a zip file containing the model files, so I can pass it on to someone who can do it for me.
Are you trying to make the glow in Daz or Blender. Cause making a glow in Blender is easy, I know of at least 2-3 ways to make a saber glow in blender.

 

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