SFX

Thanks to the Slashdot crowd, who came up with lots of ideas for special effects shots. Not that I think we’ll use them all, but nice to have a big pile of ideas to look through. Also amusing to see a debate over if my lightsaber should cast a shadow or not, and a telling…

As I was asked today exactly how I achieved the various effects (Hello Sean!), I thought I’d post links to my cheat sheets. These are the tutorials I’ve followed to render lightsabers and laser blasts: How to Create Laser Blasts How to render lightsabers (with Premiere/Photoshop) Once I’ve written it up, I’ll talk about how…

Still missing one saber in the middle, but now wit hphaser blast, and screaming Teech!

Here’s a very quick look at the compositing process for the video I’m editing at the moment… Starting with a frame of Chris after he’s been shot: Untreated This shows the original frame as we recorded it. Nothing has been processed yet. First, I apply a diffuse glow effect to show that the ray gun…

Still missing sabers in the middle, still no visible phaser blast, but super-cool sound effects! I’ll complete the video tonight, hopefully.

No sound effects, missing sabers in some bits, and no visible phaser blast, but it’s getting there. For your amusement, Chris losing his battle with the forces of darkness. (Who, it would appear, cheat!) Anyway, that’s enough SFX for tonight. Time to sleep!

Well, Chris and I spent Friday afternoon messing around with video cameras in order to do some special effects editing. We even bothered to choreograph the stuff before we shot it. Anyway, here’s a still from a brief battle Chris undertakes with the forces of evil: You’ll have to wait until the rest of the…

I promised Teech that I’d help him with a school project to show some of the kids at his school how to create simple special effects. Of course that means I’ve had to remind myself how to achieve a lot of these things again! To that end, I’ve dug out the footage I took a…