Originally posted by: Wesyeed
better than pink... I remember reading somewhere that the lightsaber colors are given to distinct classes of jedi/sith.
from my google searches i'm finding that this might be connected to the knights of the republic video game; it's an interesting ranking system. Some of you who've played the game may know more than I do about it. Of course we all know that originally only two colors existed, blue and red; but because luke's blade dissapeared against a blue sky in rotj, it was changed to green.
I don't think I like the idea of re-rotoing lots of different colors for lightsabers. for one it's a lot of work and it'd make the whole battle seem too much like a skittles commercial. It also might defeat the idea that a specific color is significant in some way. The most obivious being that red is for sith and blue/green/pimp-purple is for jedi.
better than pink... I remember reading somewhere that the lightsaber colors are given to distinct classes of jedi/sith.
from my google searches i'm finding that this might be connected to the knights of the republic video game; it's an interesting ranking system. Some of you who've played the game may know more than I do about it. Of course we all know that originally only two colors existed, blue and red; but because luke's blade dissapeared against a blue sky in rotj, it was changed to green.
I don't think I like the idea of re-rotoing lots of different colors for lightsabers. for one it's a lot of work and it'd make the whole battle seem too much like a skittles commercial. It also might defeat the idea that a specific color is significant in some way. The most obivious being that red is for sith and blue/green/pimp-purple is for jedi.
I didn't know they changed Luke's saber in RotJ from blue to green was a production decision! But that kinda goes back to the old rule of thumb for Star Wars: Any production decision may be explained later as an intentional artistic decision, ie--the Obiwan Kenobi and Darth Vader lightsaber battle explanation, the idea they were "tired old men" or whatever, and that's why they weren't jumping around like Jedi jumping beans like in RotS--stuff that's been shoved down our throats like that. If you read about different colors going to different classes from George Lucas; it's bullshit.
Allright--good point about the skittles, but you can get around a tasty rainbow look with the color choices. You don't need to go Red Green Yellow Blue Violet, you could go with some more unique colors. Going back to KOTOR again, there really is no rhyme or reason to anyone's lightsaber. Color just depends on the crystal used in the hilt--at least that's what I was always told.
How do people feel about LSmaker for rerotoscoping lightsabers? maybe I'll volunteer myself for the job (that's a maybe, damn that'd be a lot of work!).