Lightsaber Home video?

[lukemax 0]

Hi all

Was looking on the internet came across a short film of a home video of some guy fighting with a lightsaber with all the sounds and stuff.

Is that special eqipment he has or is it avalible in like a home video kit?

[Bordoy 0]

Hi all

Was looking on the internet came across a short film of a home video of some guy fighting with a lightsaber with all the sounds and stuff.

Is that special eqipment he has or is it avalible in like a home video kit?

Was it that fat guy in a dark room?

[SFWanabe 0]

I have one of batman fighting the predator.

[sim 0]

Well if it looked like a real lightsabre then it was special effects

Or if it looked like a model then it was either bought or home made.

You can obtain kits to make your own, special tubing and an actual lightsabre handle replica. Cost a bomb though... Å150 - 300

[der bastler 0]

I have one of batman fighting the predator.

Ahh, "Batman -- Dead End"!

http://theforce.net/fanfilms/nonsw/batman_deadend/index.asp

Do you already know the new film, "World's Finest?"

http://theforce.net/fanfilms/nonsw/worldsfinest/index.asp

[lukemax 0]

No its special effects, no model type, i just wanted to know how its done

[Ares1978 0]

Nothing beats the good old Troops clips.  

[DBR_ONIX 0]

www.fxhome.com - Have a look at that, theres loads of Star Wars inspired stuff (Ammong others)

The programs on there (All around Å40, but all nice to use, Chromanator is very nice) are exactly what you want (Alam DV2 or EffectsLab).

- Ben

[der bastler 0]

Nothin beats http://theforce.net/fanfilms/

How to make light sabers? I'd guess like George did: Fight around with some sort of sticks and add the glow as an overlay in post-production. Easiest but also labour intensive: Split your movie into frames and paint over the sticks in every frame with a paint program of your choice. Cinepaint (http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/) might do, since some studios use or even contribute to it.

[MrZig 0]

Do you mean like this?

[Greg147 0]

Do you mean like this?

Thats just strange

[jakerod 254]

One of my friends from school claims he knows how to do it. He said he was going to make a movie out of it at some point but Im not sure if he ever did or is still planning on it.

[Greg147 0]

I suppose it could be the one that was on the news not long ago, where 2 guys got long neon lights, covered them in petrol, lit them, and had a fight with them.

Not sure if it is on the internet, because aparantly one of them lose his hand, and got very serious burns

[DBR_ONIX 0]

I'd fell sorry for him if he didn't competely deserve that

It's easy to do the effects (Without fire.. ), but takes a long time, editing each frame induvidualy. Alam DV2/Effects Lab is the fastest way, the other way exporting each frame, or using Premier to export a .FLM (Filmstrip) file, open it in Photoshop and make the light sabres there.

- Ben