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Topic: I fought myself with a light saber! (check it out!)
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Film Boy
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posted 01-26-2001 11:52 AM
Hey everybody. In an effort to prove one of my friends wrong (he said this couldn't be done) I made a very brief clip proving that I could have two of myself fighting each other with light sabers. So here it is! I think it looks pretty darn good, if I do say so myself.
http://www.geocities.com/ryan_wieber/clonefight.mov (1.3 MB, QuickTime. As usual with GeoCities, you'll have to take out the "http://" from the location bar for it to work.) So let me know what you all think! Oh, and if the compression for the QuickTime doesn't work for you, post and I'll try to put up the clip in another codec. |
multimedia light & magic
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posted 01-26-2001 12:22 PM
all i can say is...wow.i liked that, i thought i t was going to be a slow, choppy, obviously bluescreened clip, where the sabers didnt hit exactly. great action. it's great looking.
a very enthusiastic thumb up.  |
filmguy15
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posted 01-26-2001 12:48 PM
GEEZ! How did you do that, it looks great! Do you have a tutorial? What proggies did you use?-Chase ------------------
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Black Mantis
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posted 01-26-2001 02:34 PM
Sweet zombie Jesus!! That was REALLY impressive. Even watching it in slow motion it looks good. The choreography is amazing (each move looks real), and those sabers look really slick. Wanna clue us in as to how you did it?[This message has been edited by Black Mantis (edited 01-26-2001).] |
Cold_as_ICE
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posted 01-26-2001 03:07 PM
Very impressive work!ICE |
zombie84
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posted 01-26-2001 05:20 PM
yeah, great stuff, looks real. nice light sourcing when the sabers collide too, the whole place lights up.------------------
i'll swallow your soul! |
Scooby
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posted 01-26-2001 06:26 PM
How did you do it when you moved the camera..? Did you pan it in post?------------------
fxscooby
DreamFX |
HBK
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posted 01-26-2001 11:29 PM
Since the question I want to ask has been asked several times already; I'll just leave my comments. Good job, the lighting effects were top notch....etc------------------
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Blu
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posted 01-27-2001 04:14 AM
Sweet Merciful Crap!!!
that was freakin awesome . I too was expecting it to look like crap , but that was really slick .Yeah , like it was said above , please tell how you did it . |
Film Boy
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posted 01-27-2001 03:14 PM
Alright, to answer a few questions: First I shot myself performing both halves of the fight on MiniDV and then FireWire captured that into Premiere, choosing the best takes that matched up space-wise and time-wise. I took those shots and exported them as filmstrips (at the same length) for use in Photoshop.Over in there I overlayed one over the other. Then I would hide the layer I'm not looking at and paint the blades for the one I can see. Did that for the other layer too. So then I had 4 layers: the two shot layers and the two saber blade layers. Then I basically cut out the half of the frame that is empty on the top layer, showing down through to the one below it, with the other me. Because the dowels are covered up by the saber animation who cares if the dissapear? It was just tricky making sure that I cut out enough to see the whole me on the bottom layer and not cut off part of me from the top layer. I used a feathered angular lasso tool to cut out. Once it looked good, I fully rendered the blades, flattened and saved it as a Filmstrip and added those contact flashes (using mostly color dodging) and saved again. As for that pan, yes, I did it in post. The original shot was in the 4:3 ratio, but when I looked at the final product I saw a lot of relatively boring space above and below, so for the compressed version you saw, I made it conform to the 16:9 ratio, chopping that extra space to preserve smaller file size and because of that I had to do a little pan and scaning to keep watching the action in the second shot. Hey, thanks for the positive input! Keep it coming!  |
BIG JIM SLATE
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posted 01-28-2001 01:18 AM
Not too bad at all! I'd say its ALMOST as good as Clay's fight against himself.------------------
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Film Boy
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posted 01-28-2001 03:06 PM
Clay's fight against himself?
Do you have a link to that?[This message has been edited by Film Boy (edited 01-28-2001).] |
BIG JIM SLATE
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posted 01-28-2001 05:09 PM
Uh...I don't have a link, but I know I have the file somewhere. Clay Kronke, who goes to Texas A&M (I THINK), did something like that, but I think he did it almost 2 years ago (which might be the only reason why I thought it was better). I'll look for the file (on a cdr somewhere), and post it up when I find it.------------------
You play videogames all day
You crave the digital ecstasy
Others say you have no life ...they don't know CHV.NET-The Cyber Hippie Vision R.I.P.
1996-2001 |
LORD FURY
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posted 01-28-2001 07:13 PM
that was great work. I think you did a heck of a job on that clip. Clays was pretty good, but yours is right up there with it. |
Nayman
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posted 01-28-2001 08:30 PM
Really good manonly prob was it was A: too short. and B: you couldnt possibly make it loinger due to bnot being able to get infront of the other fighter good show ol chap |
Frank Milne
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posted 01-29-2001 11:13 AM
What caught my attention that lifts this test above some others was the the fact that the light on the sabers (at least when they connect) effect the backrgound. Every connect makes a flash that seems to reflect ont he background at the right places! That adds to the realism, along side good choreography.------------------
www.frank.milne.com |
Film Boy
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posted 01-29-2001 06:11 PM
Clay Kronke! He's always one step ahead!!!
Hey, yeah, totally post when you find that fight. I'd love to see it.I actually could have continued this fight longer. Originally it was going to continue on with the moves from TPM for a couple more hits and then I'd make more up. But once I did the first two shots you see It had taken me forever. So I scrapped the idea of continuing it on. I had proven to my friend it could be done. Besides, I'm anxious to go onto my next saber shot: a truly realistic stabbing. Ah yes. Thanks, Frank. I spent a while practicing to get good flashes. (color dodging rocks!) [This message has been edited by Film Boy (edited 01-29-2001).] |
Wade
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posted 01-30-2001 10:33 AM
Here's a link to all of Clays tests..very impressive. Some are ILM quality if you ask me.
http://fan.starwars.com/thenewworld/fxtests.html ------------------
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Film Boy
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posted 01-31-2001 10:18 PM
Ah. Thanks for the link! Looks kind of funny when it's sped up, but cool. He's done some pretty sweet CG stuff too. |
DigiteyeZ
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posted 01-31-2001 11:53 PM
i give props to you, filmboy, mainly for the choreography, because that's the most difficult to get right, but the saber effects were real clean too. this marks one of the best saber films i have yet seen, mainly because it was more creative and difficult to do than the typical "playfight saber effect" movies i have seen. i look forward to seeing more stuff from you. |
killer_epidemic
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posted 02-01-2001 08:21 PM
Congrats man, way cool clip! ------------------
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Mr. Hutt
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posted 02-04-2001 07:32 PM
AAARRGGHH! I can't view it! All I get is "Whoops! We can't find your page.." And YES, I did take out the HTTP:// in the address. Still doesn't work.------------------
Andy Holmes
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Film Boy
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posted 02-05-2001 10:39 AM
Okay, go ahead and try now.
Sorry to anybody who recently tried to download and couldn't. |
Mr. Hutt
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posted 02-05-2001 12:18 PM
Mighty nice. Great job synchronizing your movements, they worked out perfectly! The sabers look nice, as do the contact flashes and sound efects. The slight camera movement at the end also helped a ton. Great job! ------------------
Andy Holmes
-artist, animator |
Mr. Hutt
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posted 02-05-2001 12:20 PM
-EDITED-Whoops, double post.
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Andy Holmes
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