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The crazy
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 21:55
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Ok, ok, this isn't so much having to do with actual 3d but it kinda is so... Well, you'll see. This day 3 of learning Adobe After Effects. I'm the one in the white shirt and gatorade hat. (green lightsaber) and the one with the weird hair is my brother. (blue lightsaber). And then my neighbor as well. (red lightsaber)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhTTFj6NRo

Basically I had to paint over 2700 frames for each lightsaber. Then do kind of the same by adding a black transparency map over where it disappears behind the body. I was able to just keyframe some of it but a lot was just frame by frame work. This is literally over 12 hours of work Not bad for my first try I reckon but what do you guys think?

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Silvester
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 21:58
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Thats sortof,well funny.

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Mucky Muck Ninja
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 22:10
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Hahha that is quite good! Nice work!

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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 22:53
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Aaaa! I Loved that. Especialy the bit when he catches the light Sabre. Realy good!

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Zergei
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Nice. You know, i always wanted to know how to do that...

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 03:42
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The saber's where a little bright, but it was quite good. I see Dark Tanner had a low budget saber that doubled as a brush
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..............ok? that was weird.



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Professor
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 23:37
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Lol make the fighting a bit more intence and it will be great!

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Natflash Games
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WOW! I always wanted a brushsaber, but seriously, good effects; how the hell could you be arsed to paint over 2700 frames.


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The crazy
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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 00:56 Edited at: 1st Sep 2006 00:57
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Quote: "how the hell could you be arsed to paint over 2700 frames."


I don't exactly know what that means But if your asking like how did I have the patience or something then here's the answer I'm a pretty patient guy. I just throw on my headphones, listen to some music, and do it. Granted, there were some points where I could simply keyframe it, but most of the time, it was just 'drag the four corners onto the markers I made and move on to the nest frame. This pretty much filled up time I'd normally just spend watching tv or something

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 11:14
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arsed=bothered

Nice work, I'd like to have seen some particle sparks though, but maybe save that for next time, like make one at night so you can add more glowy stuff.

There's a good video of yoda singing britney spears on youtube, you should check that as it's very well done (and cheap!) might give you some ideas...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdW9ygbRQU... that vid just cracks me up, if I ever go to another fancy dress party I'm definately doing that!.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 14:27
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Played a bit with rotoscoping a while ago. Everyone does lightsabers, of course Also had a bit of fun with blaster bolts too - they're easier, as you only need to show them moving for 2-3 frames or so. Getting the flares and sparks when you hit things is important too. I also found that (for purely personal tests, of course) Jedi Knight II is an excellent source of sound effects.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 15:18
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If you painted a stick bright pink with white tips at the base of the blade and the top and shot it on a uniform coloured background you could avoid multiple frame edits.
the white points are registry points for the software to match the blurred line to the stick.

good work tho, all good things take ten billion times the amount it takes to show them

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 16:02
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That was great! I've always wanted the software to do something like that!

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 16:39
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Hey thanks for the comments guys. Andrew, google adobe after effects and go to their website. They've got a 30 day trial version.

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The ARRAYinator
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 02:12
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I did something similar in the GIMP a few months ago. It takes forever. Mine was only like 20 at the most seconds of video.lol



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The crazy
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 06:28
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Well, I don't know what kind of features gimp has, but if you converted every frame to bmp or something and then put it all back together you're crazy. Crazier than me. And I'm the crazy . After Effects has some nifty features where I can click one button to go to the next frame. Then I have the animated core, and the three glow passes and then screen it all over the original. I feel sorry for you if you had to go through what I think you did

Oh and I'm not calling you stupid or anything for doing that. I also once attempted that with photoshop. Didn't get far...

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And i'm the crazy ninja!!

in a short class i took at our school we made a short video where we had a little green fireball effect which we did the old convert to bitmap and draw it on. In the end it looked ok but not top notch. The video was great and looked pretty nice though. Good Job!

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 17:36 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2006 17:41
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@the crazy IT was actually relatively simple!(but long at that) the gimp has the ability to extract video frames edit them and make the movie again.You can also go fro frame to frame and preview the movie. put together with the lightsaber plugin I got a pretty nice effect. i have to find that video.



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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 19:12
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Oh that's pretty cool. (I dont use gimp so I didnt knowe it had that) But theres a whole plug-in for it? That'd definitely be interesting... Yeah I hope you find that video. I'd love to see it.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2006 01:41 Edited at: 4th Sep 2006 01:41
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@the crazy I can't find the video But I can do a simple one for you if you want to see! only be about a second or two long,lol



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The crazy
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Posted: 4th Sep 2006 01:56 Edited at: 4th Sep 2006 02:00
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No, dont if it's too much trouble. I just thought it might be interesting to see. No biggie

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Posted: 4th Sep 2006 14:17
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haha ya i've seen that ad around a bit

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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 13:33
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@The Crazy - Thanks. I'll try the free version. I too have been down the road of converting each frame to bitmap manually, editing and then putting them back into an animation. This should make it much easier!

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