Topic: Lightsaber test 4

I whipped this up the other day.
Enjoy!

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Wow! Awesome!! Very impressive.

Loving that lightning also.

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I love it! Was the shaky cam done while animating, or added in in post production.

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epicnessh! what did you use?? how long did it take?

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That was really good, the animation and post effects were great. Really liked it.

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Thanks for the feedback, everyone! mini/bigsmile
@Mason and topitmunkeydog,
I used after effects for everything including the shaky cam.

http://i.imgur.com/lZUQ9.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/9CQIM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/YZLtR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ICcjc.png

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That was cool!!!

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That was very very awesome. I'm sure it is just me, but the shaky cam kind of felt out of place or awkward. Fantastic work though very smooth and great effects!

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Cool effects and animation, the camera is a bit too shaky imo.

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I love this! The Shaky cam effect looked good, and the lighsaber and blaster effects looked amazing.

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Thank you!

http://i.imgur.com/lZUQ9.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/9CQIM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/YZLtR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ICcjc.png

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Don't listen to those who think shaky cam effect was bad. It was indeed very good and really made me feel like watching an actual action movie! Great job buddy! The 'saber effect was also done awesomely!

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Thanks!
I made the shaky cam with the after effects 'Wiggler'.
It generates random values between two keyframes of any type.

http://i.imgur.com/lZUQ9.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/9CQIM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/YZLtR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ICcjc.png

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very niiice.   honestly though, the shaky cam could use some help.  video copilot has a preset that looks much more natural because it adds rotation and some other stuff into the mix.

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Thanks!

I think a good way to add camera shake would be to film a real shot with a shaky hand, track the position and rotation, copy the keyframes onto a Null object and parent the non-shaky footage to it.
Needless to say, I didn't do that. I was think about it, but I didn't.

http://i.imgur.com/lZUQ9.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/9CQIM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/YZLtR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ICcjc.png