SW Fan Revamps ANH Lightsabers

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-02 10:27pm

Comosicus wrote:
Crown wrote:Bwahahaha!

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

I liked the ending most. Very nice.

It would have been funnier if the last guy stole the other guys' wallets.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-03-02 10:36pm

McC wrote: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.

KnightQuest and Broken Allegiance are both overrated.

Legacy of the Jedi was to the point and surpisingly hilarious. I rolled on the ground for that one.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-03-02 10:44pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:KnightQuest and Broken Allegiance are both overrated.

In terms of their successes as films, perhaps, but technically-speaking, they're both very admirable.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2004-03-04 05:20am

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.

Okay, so the fact that Obi-Wan's lightsaber becomes (for a second or two) a metal stick with a light on the end (or the "ghost image" that appears next to Han Solo as he runs away from the exploding bunker; or the "splitting down the middle" leg parts on the Stormtroopers in the Blockade Runner shootout, giant shoes and vegetables in the asteroid field, etc) is able to be discarded since it's a one-time thing.

But something like the obvious matte lines/blue screen fog around the Rancor for most of it's screentime and the visible boxes around space ships throughout the Original Trilogy are not so easily dismissed (though granted, nobody's tried to put forth a theory yet that I know of that the Rancor is just a hologram or ghost, or that most SW ships have semi-visible box shaped force fields around them).

Costume glitches and SFX glitches are dismissable if they appear rarely, but what if they appear more frequently?

I just think that some glitches become acceptable (lightsabers leaving shadows, blasters and turbo lasers causing damage before the "bolt" hits, etc) while others (as mentioned above) do not.