Originally Posted by Alan Mills For a sword fight you're best off making your own sound effects. You'll find that a real sword fight sounds dull and quite lifeless. These are always dubbed with better sound in the movies to get that lovely twang sound.
Take a microphone out and find a nice solid metal railing by the side of some steps somewhere. The sort of thing skaters love to 'grind' (apologies for knowing this lingo!). The just hit it with different objects (sticks, stones and other bits of metal) to get different variations. You'll get a much 'better' swiord sound from that than you ever would from a real sword. Quite an irony eh?
Flying off screen? You mean like superman? Best done as bluescreen.
Fire? Use a particle system like Combustion, After Effects or (my personal fave) Particle Illusion. |
for the flying i mean more like someone jsut floating off screen. the camera wont follow him. hell jsut fly up (and i have no idea what bluescreen is)
and for fire we were wanting to fight insde a ring of fire. i was game for using real fire but i think the other person is a little skeptical. again, i have no idea what those methods you metnioned are.
thank you for the help though. it is getting me somewhere and it means a lot