Hello this Is Barry Nolan formally with Van der Veer Photo. I should have answered this forum a long Time Ago. I did all the rotoscoping and layout for optical printing of Lightsabors for Stars Wars IV. The Compositing was done By Hugh Wade. I supervised the process for episode V and I believe episode VI was done by Peter Corran. The lightsabor blade were made white with a light blue glow around the edges. I also did the animation for the speeder in Mos Eisley. The wheels were removed and replace with background and the shadow modified. It was done about a dozen times before it was excepted. I also did the electrifying of R2D2 buy the Jawas.

Years later for the rerelease All the effects were redone and the color of the Lightsabor changed to match episodes I ,II,III.

Today I have been retired for 30 years but do make effects films for my children and grandchildren. I have tried to keep up with the technology and do it all with the computer.