Originally posted by: Darth Lars
In all due respect, your laser bolts and lightsabers are too blurry for my taste. I liked in the original ANH that the edges of the lightsabers blades were sharp. They also flickered. Those two aspects made them feel dangerous.
The lightsabers in the trailer were only prototype effects shots and will have a stronger core & more natural glow in the finished version. The flicker is definately still there though.
It may well have to be a dual layer but i'm going to do a 9 pass CCE single layer encode first to see how if i can stick to single layer without sacrificing quality.
Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
Adywan, do you think you'd mind sharing your approach to recreating the laser bolts? I've got a technique that's close that I'm using on my project, but I think you're a little closer. Would love to hear what your approach is regardless!
In all due respect, your laser bolts and lightsabers are too blurry for my taste. I liked in the original ANH that the edges of the lightsabers blades were sharp. They also flickered. Those two aspects made them feel dangerous.
The lightsabers in the trailer were only prototype effects shots and will have a stronger core & more natural glow in the finished version. The flicker is definately still there though.
Originally posted by: Jaxon's Dad
Quick question: Do you anticipate that this will require a Dual Layer DVD-R?
Quick question: Do you anticipate that this will require a Dual Layer DVD-R?
It may well have to be a dual layer but i'm going to do a 9 pass CCE single layer encode first to see how if i can stick to single layer without sacrificing quality.
Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
Adywan, do you think you'd mind sharing your approach to recreating the laser bolts? I've got a technique that's close that I'm using on my project, but I think you're a little closer. Would love to hear what your approach is regardless!
Ok, here goes....
Export the section you want to edit from Adobe Premier and save as a filmstrip. Try to keep it to about 50 frames at most because it uses hell of a lot of memory and will slow your pc down. Import into Photoshop.
Add a layer and using the polygon lasso tool draw round the original laser or if you are creating your own just draw the shape you want. Using the paint bucket tool fill the selection with the desired colour for the core. once you have created all the cores for your lasers add a small blur using guassian blurr (2.5 is pretty good but you will have to descrease for smaller lasers. just try a few setting to see what looks best.
Once this is done duplicate the core layer and then again using the paint bucket tool fill the cores of the duplicate layer. This now gives you a thicker line. this layer shoul be placed below the inner core. now you have finished filling the new layer add another guassian blur of about 7.5 (again this setting needs to be changed for the different sizes. Just use the preview feature to get your desired results. Your outer core layer needs to be dropped by about 20% in capacity then merge the 2 new layers together. Then just play about with that layers capacity until you get the look that you want. Once you have finished that then flatten the image and click save.
Hope this helps