brash_stryker said:
This is something I looked at a while ago and really want to see happen.
I even tinkered with doing global colour correction on Geonosis to make all the sabers blue without rotoscoping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jam2WqcjGC4I can tell that Ady would always go for a full rotoscope though, being a perfectionist. My test has some significant green bleed.
Your end result looks pretty impressive. I like how it turned out, with slightly varying shades of blue, but not the combination of blue and green blades we got in the originals.
I just wish we didn't see so many damn lightsabers throughout the PT. How many saber users did we have in the OT? Three (Ben, Vader, Luke)? Yoda should never have one, and Han doesn't count because he only borrowed Luke's out of necessity. I haven't bothered to count, but the PT probably had about 60. To me, the lightsaber should be a weapon of last resort, when your mental and spiritual connection with the Force can't get the job done and you need immediate physical help. This is exactly why we should NEVER see Yoda "whip out that little laser sword of his and go to town," (quote: GL). But if he did, it'd be blue :)