SW Fan Revamps ANH Lightsabers

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-03-01 12:49am

Checkit out:

http://www.towerhost.com/~ryan-w/misc/compare_anh.mov

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-03-01 12:55am

Nice!

I especially liked how he fixed the 'tip on' look of Obi-Wan's lightsabre and the dull red of Vaders!

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-03-01 01:20am

I have to wonder why they didn't do this for the Special Editions.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-03-01 01:21am

Why didn't LFL do this for ANH:SE? Were they too busy making Greedo shoot first?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-01 01:39am

LOL, I never noticed Obi-Wan's lightsaber "shorted out" before.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 01:54am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:LOL, I never noticed Obi-Wan's lightsaber "shorted out" before.

You didn't?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-01 01:57am

No....

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-03-01 01:57am

Galvatron wrote:Why didn't LFL do this for ANH:SE? Were they too busy making Greedo shoot first?

Yeup.

Still, cool blades...and no shorting out.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-03-01 04:45am

How could someone not notice that stunning lightsabre gaffe?!?!?!?

It's driven me absoltely insane ever since I first watched it, and the fact that they didn't fix such a stupid bloody error for the ANH:SE (too busy adding a cheap, cheesy looking Jabba I guess) is just a graver insult.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-01 06:11am

Nice editing. Maybe the guy could apply for ILM.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-03-01 03:41pm

He got a job with Lucasarts. Check out his website.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 05:34pm

And they didn't use his work or at least do something similar for the SE. That's just stupid. If it was a budget problem (which I doubt) they could have cut Jabba (it just doesn't make sense for him to crawl out to Docking Bay 94 under his own power), put Heater in there instead (maintaining consistency with the radio dramas and keep with Jabba's predilection for having others do his dirty work), and saved the FX money to do the lightsabers.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-03-01 06:19pm

You have to remember, I got this from the Fan Films board. This guy did this for the hell of it in in a couple hours, because someone dared the board to do so!

Someone did another, but it wasn't as good, and the added the "Duel Of The Fates" music to it.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-01 06:21pm

Lord Poe wrote:You have to remember, I got this from the Fan Films board. This guy did this for the hell of it in in a couple hours, because someone dared the board to do so!

Someone did another, but it wasn't as good, and the added the "Duel Of The Fates" music to it.

Duel of the Fates just doesn't fit Vader's style of fighting. If I had to come up with a specific theme for Vader's fight scenes it would be more along the lines of a cello/bass melody and percussion. Definitely not a full chorus. Man, its hard to put envisioned music to words. >_<

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2004-03-02 12:23am

The special editions were a joke, seriously. They better do better than that for the DVDs.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-03-02 12:49am

Bwahahaha!

Checkout this lightsabre duel him and another guy did! It is fucking awesome!

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-02 06:22am

Crown wrote:Bwahahaha!

Checkout this lightsabre duel him and another guy did! It is fucking awesome!

I liked the ending most. Very nice.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2004-03-02 11:21am

I noticed this back in the 80's, and it always bugged me.

I'm surprised though that nobody (in all this time) tried to explain this in "official" terms, like that there was a solid element to a lightsaber that projected a plasma field around it or something (nah, just kidding, it's such a blatant error it couldn't possibly...)

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-03-02 04:29pm

You don't understand Suspension of Disbelief.

Scientific analysis discards unreconcilable, one-time errors as instrumentation or experimental failures. When graphing results in scientific studies, a handful of outliers is inevitable, and is discarded.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-03-02 04:52pm

Crown wrote:Bwahahaha!

Checkout this lightsabre duel him and another guy did! It is fucking awesome!

That was AWESOME! Dorkman is a prick, though, with his one-hand fencing style. How long do you think those guys had to practice to get that good?

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-03-02 05:01pm

The lightsabers didn't score the concrete, though. Point-two deduction.

4.7/5.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-02 05:29pm

Yeah, the sabers should have mauled the floor. And what did he think he was playing at, one handed with the other behind his back? This ain't the frickin' fencing club.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-03-02 06:57pm

The thing on the floor was kinda dumb. But the effects were quite good.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-02 07:25pm

I liked best the idea of Force stabbing by activating the lightsaber.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-03-02 08:35pm

You guys need to get out more

Or...well, anyway.

Ryan Wieber is probably the forerunner for AfterEffects compositing work connected with TheForce.Net's FanFilms theater. As someone involved in digital effects including compositing and rotoscoping, I have a lot of respect for the work he's done so far, as well as his willingness to share his techniques and methods with the rest of the community. You should check out some of the other TF.N fanfilms. Broken Allegiance, KnightQuest, Duality, and Legacy of the Jedi all exhibit great lightsaber duels and are fairly entertaining. The Formula is arguably the best independent film (it's a fanfilm...but not quite...) I've seen in a while.