i have seen this infamous footage. I am asahmed to admit I laughed myself stupid watching it too

As to 'the story' though. not heard a word. What's the S.P. on the story then?

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The poor kid filmed himself trying out (what he thought) was karate moves with a broom stick and filmed it with his school camera, he forgot to remove the tape and when someone found it they posted it on the net. People worldwide laughed and slagged him off for being such a dork and he ended up going into hiding as he was the brunt of everyones jokes. Now some nice chaps at "lucas films" heard about it and changed the broom stick for a light saber and added laser blasts as if the kid was stopping the blasts. All of a sudden he became the coolest kid on the block and apparently had a walk on roll in the last movie "revenge of the sith". P.S he has now made a cool bit of cash with "starwars kid" T'shirts and merchantdise.


This is the kids original footage.
http://ebaumsworld.com/starwarskid.html

Shame on him


Lucas film edition
http://www.kamazutra.be/starkid2/


Shows what a few effects can do.

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the kids a legend!! i legend i tells ya!

I love the remake. Haha thats the best. Maybe I should leak something of myself, hmmm.

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Haha Onomoto, One of my mates wants me to film him and "leak" it. :twisted:

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In reference to the way you did your light saver in photoshop your mistake was doing the blur and stuff like that per each frame,

Basicly what you want to do, is do just 1 saber which will leave you with like 174 layers, hide the video layer then murge all that sabers layers into 1,

from there the blur effect will effect every single saber at once, do everything you want to do to make that one look right then duplicate the layer and remerge, basicly rasterizing the layer into a perma layer.

Then you can markey the space inbetween frames straights through inbetween each section of frames and delete the extra glow that bleeds or just use the eraser brush your choice.

After your done then redisplay the video layer and walla 1 ssaber down then get started on the second..


Also this is one more video i did, It was a video of some guys outside the movie theater waiting to see starwars, i tried this one because it wasnt a planned shot. And i wanted to see how it would come out, you can probily tell i put a little more work into this one though.


BTW intro done in After effects


www.compugears.com/masterposampleswlowres.wmv


and while yes AE is faster to keyframe, the effect isnt the same because you use a photoshop layer overlayed over the saber, Making the effect or motion blur a lot harder to reproduce along with the light on the light saber thinning out incorrectly.

Sad to say But they do it frame by frame at dream works for sabers. NOW LAZERs are a whole nothing story

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Nice, nice. Lets all leak footage on the net. Who knows what can happen. Never know whos next. Just might be.... YOU!!!

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In AE you can use the mask/pen tool and a white solid, then keyframe the shape of the mask so it can change shape acorddingly. Then you duplicate this layer three times. You leave one the same, then feather the masks on the others, one being about 10 pixels, another 20, and another 40. Then you move the video layer into a new comp, then in the saber comp, you add a black solid as the bottom. Then add this comp over the video layer. Set the layer blend mode to screen, then adjust the color balance, for the colour you want.

hmm, interesting, i'll have to give that ago, i tried following a video tutorial by a man called Ryan Weber, but I can never get the hang of it for some retarded reason, lol

Yeah that's the one I used, and it worked for me. What are you having trouble with?