Originally posted by: Saintheart
Heh. Welcome to the wonderful world of rotoscoping. I've never seen it reverse-engineered like that, but that looks good.
If it's of any assistance, there's two tutorials on how to do this at
this address.
The author of these two tutorials, Ryan Wieber, went on to work for Lucasfilm and rotoscoped some, if not many, of the lightsabers for the Episode III video game. There's truth to this; I've stooged around on theforce.net for a number of years, and Wieber can be seen in one of the pre-production videos for the game when he and the rest of the team got the chance to watch Nick Gillard and Hayden Christensen in action so they had a better idea of how their different characters "move". Most of the saber rotoscoping you'll see in later fan films use his method, so it seems to work...
(And no, I am not Ryan Wieber, nor any individual connected with him.)
Originally posted by: Marvolo
Johny, do you do all those steps to each frame? That would take forever.
Johny, do you do all those steps to each frame? That would take forever.
Heh. Welcome to the wonderful world of rotoscoping. I've never seen it reverse-engineered like that, but that looks good.
If it's of any assistance, there's two tutorials on how to do this at
this address.
The author of these two tutorials, Ryan Wieber, went on to work for Lucasfilm and rotoscoped some, if not many, of the lightsabers for the Episode III video game. There's truth to this; I've stooged around on theforce.net for a number of years, and Wieber can be seen in one of the pre-production videos for the game when he and the rest of the team got the chance to watch Nick Gillard and Hayden Christensen in action so they had a better idea of how their different characters "move". Most of the saber rotoscoping you'll see in later fan films use his method, so it seems to work...
(And no, I am not Ryan Wieber, nor any individual connected with him.)
I stopped using photoshop, because it requires you to do it frame by frame. Johny's method is very neat, and I will probably attempt it sometime. Now I mostly use After Effects, and the Wieber method.