Not a die-hard Star Wars fan but still enjoyed these.

Crill3 · Post by **Crill3** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:35 pm

Does anyone know what video I posted in the first reply?
It's removed from YouTube, and I have no idea what it was

Renegade_Turner · Post by **Renegade_Turner** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:06 am

That lightsaber fight is just brill.

Tell me someone, were they just adding in light effects for the lightsaber bits or were there polls that they were holding and then they added in light effects? I'm wondering if there was really anything there.

Post by **David** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:33 am

I think they would probably use some kind of stand-in (except for shots in which the saber extends or retracts), because it is much easier to choreograph and rotoscope when there is something actually there.

rudel_ic · Post by **rudel_ic** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:42 am

Yeah, plastic poles and rotoscoping, I'm sure that's how they did it.

Renegade_Turner · Post by **Renegade_Turner** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:08 am

Was that sarcasm?

That is what I was thinking David.

rudel_ic · Post by **rudel_ic** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:14 am

No sarcasm. That's how it's usually done.

Renegade_Turner · Post by **Renegade_Turner** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:55 pm

Ah right yeah. It just looked like something that might have been sarcastic.

What's rotoscoping, by the way?

Zantalos · Post by **Zantalos** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:27 pm

"Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. More recently, the rotoscoping technique has been referred to as interpolated rotoscoping."

It's funny, when you see the "making of" in starwars films, they always have these funny looking lightsaber placeholders before the rotoscoping. They're so funny!

rudel_ic · Post by **rudel_ic** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:28 pm

Simply put, rotoscoping is drawing over a live-action movie frame by frame in some way. Automated drawing counts. See 'A Scanner Darkly' (heavily underrated 100% rotoscope movie).