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PixelPeZ
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I watched Ep 04 - A New Hope yesterday and am now in the middle of EP 01 and noticed that the sabers in the original episode were really shaped like swords ... on top view they looked sharp and narrow, but in ep 01 they are like rods or just glowing pipes :P
are the animators getting lazy or what :P
I'll check the other episodes aswell to see where the change happens ....
just a fact I thought I'd share  |
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::ronin
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 3:29 pm |
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| in defense of the animators, the sabers should look like 'glowing pipes' |
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Impaler
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:11 pm |
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| God bless 420. |
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Loki
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:24 pm |
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The lightsabers were always meant to be like glowing rods.
In the first Star Wars movie they used reflective material around the rods, because CG wasn't existent back then. They pulled a high contrast matte off the lightsabers and made them glow optically - lotsa rotoscoping and hand painted effects animation involved - that's why they sometimes look kinda funny.
Nowadays they can really make perfect glowing rods |
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Akolyte
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 8:38 pm |
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yes, my rod glows perfectly. dunno what was goin on back then  |
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the_monkey
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:12 pm |
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geeks!
*goes and reads his comic books* |
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Nilwort
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:41 pm |
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I've had this page in my favorites for a while now...good if you want to make your own wacky lightsaber movies and gives you an idea of how it's actually done...
http://freeweb.pdq.net/smokin/rotoscope/ |
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[666]Flat
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 7:28 am |
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quote:
Originally posted by Akolyte:
yes, my rod glows perfectly. dunno what was goin on back then
Say hello to Mr. Phosphorized Billy Boy!
Follow the light, tasty gurl!!1 |
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