Author Topic: Intense Light Saber Duel (Read 2892 times)

SirPeale · « **on:** April 14, 2006, 09:14:40 pm »

I thought it was very well done.

Bones · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2006, 09:20:51 pm »

jbox · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2006, 10:24:14 pm »

Fantastic. That was definately one of the best amateur duels I've seen. All they need to do is throw on some tights and blue screen the back ground and that would have been better than the Gummi Bear duel in Ep2.

MYX · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2006, 03:33:14 pm »

Wow, nicely done, both technically and action. I was hoping that Dorkman would win, but the other guy had the immunity idol or something.

Jabba · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2006, 09:29:55 pm »

Man, they must be using real "swords" in that video and touching it up with the effects. Very well done indeed. Watch out George...

ha-Y-n · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2006, 01:25:50 am »

MameMaster! · « **Reply #6 on:** April 20, 2006, 04:59:04 pm »

cool. these kids have talent....all we have to our names are the fact that we play PacMan when it came out the first time.

thebrownshow · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2006, 10:28:03 am »

That short is actually about 3 years old.
http://www.ryanvsdorkman.com/

Ryan Wieber has a ton of special effects tutorials online, and amazingly went on to get a job with Lucasarts and worked on a few games, including KOTOR II.

hyiu · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2006, 07:10:48 pm »

not bad, but I have downloaded one that I think its better than this one...

its called ArtOfTheSaberMk2.mov

anyone seen that before ??

I think the moves are better...

its about 45M... if anyone wants to host it, plz let me know...

jbox · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2006, 10:08:56 pm »

The Art of the Saber

There is a mistake though, in that you can't stick a lightsaber into the ground the way they do because it would burn its way down instantly. Apart from that it is an excellent piece of work.

hyiu · « **Reply #10 on:** April 22, 2006, 12:27:29 pm »

yes, that's the one.... they are good....

SirPeale · « **Reply #11 on:** July 29, 2008, 06:41:51 pm »

I only just found out about part 2 of this epic battle...

ahofle · « **Reply #12 on:** July 29, 2008, 06:53:16 pm »

Why is it that the only attacks that actually connect in lightsaber battles since the original trilogy are kicks and punches?

Very well done though.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #13 on:** July 29, 2008, 08:07:34 pm »

I had never seen those. Thanks for bringing this thread back. The first was pretty good, and the second was just awesome.

SirPeale · « **Reply #14 on:** July 30, 2008, 09:58:44 am »

Quote from: ahofle on July 29, 2008, 06:53:16 pm

Why is it that the only attacks that actually connect in lightsaber battles since the original trilogy are kicks and punches?

That's not true...Darth Maul got chopped in two...Anakin got his hand chopped off...

shardian · « **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2008, 10:24:12 am »

Those guys do some badass work. I rooted for Ryan both times. I loved how the second one ended.

shmokes · « **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2008, 10:45:28 am »

It's too bad that they're giant ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?---. All of their punches and kicks looked as fake as they were because they wouldn't put any back into them. It's for a production that the world is going to see. So you go home with a couple of bruises . . .

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2008, 11:30:24 am »

But it does fit the sissy Star Wars punches and kicks...

RyoriNoTetsujin · « **Reply #18 on:** July 30, 2008, 02:07:13 pm »

Yeah... hm. $:-\$ I love the idea, and the technical execution of the saber effects were great... but their choreography was actually pretty bad - even by Star Wars standards, which, I'm sorry to say, are already pretty LOW on the totem pole of great fights, in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not shitting on their effort, they had some nice moments ... but you can certainly tell they are not performers (or even martial artists) by training.

The choreography is better in Art of the Saber, but it suffers from the same essential problem; no intent. Lots of pretty movements and a few unique ways of dealing with the saber... but not once did I get any kind of emotional stakes. Not once did I believe that any of the three clips were anything more than a tech demo.

But then again; I felt that way about SW Episodes 1-3... so maybe I'm just sad and jaded.

Daniel270 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2008, 02:13:55 pm »

This was linked from the page of one of our forum members.. he had a hand in the creation of all the videos in this link.

http://www.spiritsoftheforce.com/films/default.asp

erictrumpet · « **Reply #20 on:** July 30, 2008, 06:25:46 pm »

Star Wars is so awesome.

ark_ader · « **Reply #21 on:** July 30, 2008, 06:36:54 pm »

Lots of rotoscoping done in Premire me thinks.

In the old days when we just had regular 8 film, I used to put small scratches with an needle on the film to make laser beams. Things have come a long way since then.

I used to make all the models for my films, out of old car and model plane kits, which sadly the films have been destroyed. My Father was in photography and understood the blue screen technology as he used them in his titles. My Mother was a matt painter, and also did colour on B/W film and negatives. Kind of like Albert Whitlock used to do on glass.

I used to do stop animation with clay models, but for some odd reason I ditched the hobby to concentrate on video games.

But one day I'll have to remake one of them with my DV video camera and PC.

Here is the link for rotoscoping I found on the net.

The sabre sound effects can be created with an amp, and a sampler.

Its not hard to do, but takes a lot of timing and patience and multicoloured tape.

And some real violence!!

http://alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/

ahofle · « **Reply #22 on:** July 30, 2008, 06:51:33 pm »

Quote from: ark_ader on July 30, 2008, 06:36:54 pm

I used to do stop animation with clay models, but for some odd reason I ditched the hobby to concentrate on video games.

You should do both!
I wish there were more games like Platypus:
http://www.fenomen-games.com/platypus.htm

Shieldwolf · « **Reply #23 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:43:13 pm »

One of those guys works on Heroes doing visual fx.
checkout Forced Alliance <shameless plug> lightsaber battle not quite as good, but our story rocks and got us some Lucas Awards

Ummon · « **Reply #24 on:** August 06, 2008, 08:33:28 pm »

This was cute, for a spell. Definitely there's the 'do you think this would've been possible for just anyone to do in twenty years?', and I think we all (on my street) would've said 'no'. Still, I think the original SW movies were best. They meant to kill each other and there was no flashy stuff in-between.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #25 on:** August 07, 2008, 02:35:22 am »

what is a 'scortch mark'?

Ummon · « **Reply #26 on:** August 08, 2008, 04:59:29 pm »

Quote from: danny_galaga on August 07, 2008, 02:35:22 am

what is a 'scortch mark'?

Someone with a bit o scotch in them?


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