Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Making lightsabers in photoshop + tricks and tips

Making lightsabers in photoshop + some advance tricks and tips to make you saber look better www.force-fx.com

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Final Duel-Part 1

Check out Don, pretty much my best friend moved today, so we filmed our last duel in person for a while, I'll miss you bro, this it for you Don-Lightsabers vs JT Dark jank

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

Grievous Hasbro Fx Luxeon LED Lightsaber with Ramp effect by LDM

This is a hasbro Signature series saber made for a client. It has a sith soundboard, a Luxeon III green LED and "ramping" accent LEDs under the bubble strip on the activation box

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Ryan vs Dorkman

RYAN WIEBER VS. MICHAEL "DORKMAN" SCOTT What began as a friendly rivalry between two effects artists explodes off TheForce.Net's FanFilms Forum and into the real world in a lightsaber battle royale. Originally created for the forum's lightsaber choreography competition, this fight to the death will decide once and for all who is truly most skilled with a saber. There can be only one. (I did not make this short film, stop asking me how I made the special effects. Its a mix of rotoscoping, photoshop and After Effects.) Visit their website at www.ryanvsdorkman.com for any and all info concerning how to make this video, how long it took, or to meet the real creators of the fanfilm. FAQs (from ryanvsdorkman.com) How did you do those lightsaber effects? We used Adobe After Effects to rotoscope the prop blades and add glows to them. Essentially the same way ILM does it. After Effects was also used for a variety of other visual effects you see (or don't see) in RvD. How long did it take you to make this, and when did it come out? We choreographed and filmed over the course of three weekends, and spent about 4 months on the effects in our spare time, finishing March 1st, 2003. Did you guys have any martial arts or sword training when you made this? Neither of us had any formal training of any kind at the time of making RvD. Just watched a lot of movies. Where was this shot, and what is that thing in the background? RvD was filmed at Carco Electronics, who built flight simulators ...

Monday, March 21, 2011