lightsaber tutorial

Hello!! I know that there are many tuts out there for creating lightsabers, but there is such a variety of methods for creating lightsabers, but I think the best, and the easiest way is to make a white solid and rotoscope it over the actual prop saber, here's a screen shot i took while working to demonstrate the process. Watch this video by freddiew to get the full tutorial. Also, video copilot makes a great plugin for creating lightsabers, but i don't think it's really needed as the process can be done with all of the tools in AE. Here's the vid.

New mini-movie, lightsaber based

Hello, as you know, i'm just starting a visual effects blog, i will update every week, and will provide news, tutorials, and other cool thing that i find on the internet, so, let's get to the new, this week we have begun work on a new mini-movie, epic fails of the jedi weirdos, I don't have an exact date or time on when it will be done, but, you can still expect news. As you can see from the picture above it will be a fight scene, but it will also be a comedy movie, full of, you said it, jedi weirdos epicly failing. We will update on the progress of the movie normally, so, check back in!! Happy VFX!



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