ST What color should Rey's lightsaber be?

I think a tartan lightsaber is the way to go

 

Helicopter darksaber to be Luke's weapon of choice in episode VIII

 

Yes. And he can fly IN SPACE. That way, Rian can reuse the footage of his severed hand and saber falling to a planet's surface. Ending of Episode VIII confirmed.

 

I'm hoping for a double bladed lightsaber. Color? Hmmmm...I suppose it would be nice to have a new color, if so I'd pick orange. But if traditional, green.

 

Well, in that case:

 

"I can't drown my demons"

 

I wasn't thinking like the darksaber, but a movie style saber, with black instead of blue, green, etc.

 

That's exactly what I like about it. Almost as if it's a tear in the fabric of the universe, contained within a blade. There's something very unsettling about it. And in that sense, it really does feel like the "absence of light," rather than a piece of solid black material, which I find appealing on a visceral level. A shard of space's emptiness as a weapon. Negating life with a touch of vacuum.

It's one of the few "variations" from Star Wars ancillary material that I think is on a similar novelty/ memorability level as its OT equivalents.

 

I agree. It's like a black hole, pulling in light so only absolute blackness remains. It also looks better when moving than in stills, I think.

I like the idea mentioned above, about going for a subtle different shade of blue/green. I can see Rey with a light blue saber, would be nice and fresh but familiar.

Also, if Rey gets her own saber, could we see Luke dual wielding his RotJ saber and Anakin's at the same time? That would be pretty cool.

 

It actually looks a bit better than I thought it would, but it would definitely only work in very specific lighting

 

I'd like to see a real icy, silvery blue.

We already got a weird sabre with Kylo, so I wouldn't write off Rey getting something novel.

 

It's always good to be put right on a point by someone who really knows what they're talking about. That makes total sense, and I agree - I was surprised how effective my crude little sketch looked, but yeah, it's deffo not something that'd work on screen at all going by what you've shown there. Also I might utilise the blending mode on my drawing app (procreate on iPad, not photoshop) to draw the lightsabers on my big illustration project after reading this. Cheers

 

Woah, I just drew a couple of quick lightsaber blades using blending mode set to screen; If the illustration I'm doing ends up looking good, you'll be directly responsible - that's almost magical, it almost feels like cheating

Possibly a stupid question, but can you explain exactly what is going on with that process then? I mean, as it is, that feature in procreate seems almost designed to be "draw cool lightsabers", but I'm guessing there's a more practical regular usage that relates to how a layer intended to draw light can interact with the values directly underneath?

 

This is a pretty crude example I mocked up, but I think it works ok:

 

the darksaber from tcw was cool because it was an actual blade that was black. a lightsaber is made of light it can't be black.

 

Perhaps you're right. Isn't that kind of the point of black though, to stick out and look 'wrong'? Not saying it's viable in reality but I'm not adverse to it.

In other news, I'm leaning towards the yellow staff saber for Rey. Looks pretty rad:

 

Wow, good breakdown. Guess my first vote is still that Rey keeps Luke's old blue saber, then.

 

she should have the cyan lightsaber of luke skywalker. To better qualify this, what I don't want is the prequel blue. it looks way to digital for me. I want the aqua/cyan tinged one that we saw in TFA.

 

The TFA saber didn't look aqua/cyan. It looked plain blue and more like a prequel saber than an original trilogy one. Which is fine with me; I think the more vibrant blades looked better than the more subdued ones.