)As you can see from a frame-by-frame viewing, the "blade" changes color and shape quite often. The first pic you found (the bottom of the above list), was the only one that is a composite of several parts (and the worst quality, in my opinion). The others are simple cut&paste jobs which were resized and rotated to match the outline of the original blade. The last three pics suffered from the "Obi-wan" syndrome, where the tip was lit, but the unlit shaft was visible, so I tried to cover the shaft as much as possible.
Anyways, it's hardly noticeable at regular play speed (since they are only a frame in duration), but I may go ahead and leave them as such. I was just wondering if I was going to get a "Purist" backlash (is DanielB reading this?
), but since the fixes involved original lightsaber effects, it didn't seem like such a bad idea to me. (I intend to do this for Obi-wan's and Vader's lightsabers as well.)