Star Wars Kid

*Not related to games, but since I grew up in the games forum plz dont movve it.*

Did you guys hear of the StarWars kid? If not, its the story of some overweight kid from Quebec who makes a homevideo of himself doing starwars moves. Somehow, his friends got hold of the tape and posted it all over the net. This kid was ridiculed all over the world on thousands of websites. Statistics show that it was downloaded around 1.1 million times.

Now here is the cool part. A group of mac graphic designers saw the video on the net and wanted to help the kid because he was getting laughed at. So they took the video, and put an intro(starwars), sound, and the coolest....a real lightsaber. So the new video looks pretty cool and the guy should be quite happy to see him with a lightsaber. The graphic artist group then raised 5000$ for him and gave him an iPod. Now the kid is famous for being "Star wars kid". Hes going on late night shows and everything. So a note to all peopl e wanting cash and an iPod: Make a video of yourself with a golf ball retriever, pretending you are Darth Maul.

Heres the link to the videos( Check out The unedited first, then the edited):

http://www.digitalcinemapictures.com...s/starwars.htm

*and dont laugh* Its hard not to though.

Ok, I'm not a Star Wars fan but my friends are. I made a little "test" clip of myself 4 years ago just to see if I could do the lightsaber effect. I recorded myself in a friends living room.

NO ONE, except for some of my friends, has seen this. When I read this post about that poor kid, I dug out MY own little clip :D. Well, I'm not as geeky as him :D.

As I'm not a starwars fan, I accidently made the lightsaber too thick.

bla bla.....

DON'T LAUGH!! it's just a few seconds test clip.
http://hem.thalamus.nu/~hnm007791/Test-LowQuality.zip



I have made a 15 minutes fighting video with some of my martial art pals. It includes awesome sound effects and ninja and karate costumes (REAL ninja/karate costumes). Kinda like an old chinese fighting movie. Everyone who has seen it thinks it rules.. So do I.. no geekyness, only professionls. But that one I'm not showing.

OMG Ironclaw. How did you make that. That as so cool!
You would have made a good Jedi!
Funny how your lightsaber popped out of nowhere :P

Still cool tho

Thanks but no.... it IS lame....

Anyway... since that day 4 years ago... today I am 500% better... I can use blue screen and **** to make me fly if I want to :D.

yeah, now that i have MX, im buying a large green sheet and making a green wall so i can do effects. With my digital camera, im gonna make a movie A la Matrix.

DId you make your thing in Flash? Cause if you did, tell me how you did the light saber. ITS F****** AWESOME!

You can do it in Flash MX of course. But I used Adobe Premiere and Photoshop as I didn't have any other programs back then.

To many things involved to do it.... Don't know the name of the different functions in the programs to use and I don't have any of them installed as I'm bored with effects....

Do you have your lightsaber art still? Or can teach me how to make it

Hard to explain.... something like this:

1. Record yourself holding a stick or whatever you want.
2. Import the recorded file into Adobe Premiere
3. Export as pictures (every frame becomes a picture)
4. Import all the pictures into Adobe Photoshop
5. Draw a white (any colour you want, just make sure the colour you choose isn't on the picture) line over the stick. Do this on ALL the pictures :D
6. Tell Photoshop that everything that is "your colour" on the picture to turn into a glowy effect.......


Something like that....

Is premiere for animations?

LOL you look like Neo with a lightsaber. :D

Premiere is mainly for Video directing..

And i cant find the glow effect. I draw a line in Photoshop 6.0, but cant do anything with it. (I just got photoshop yesterday.)

I can't remember exactly... there is no "glow effect".... you have to make it yourself..... using the pallets.........


Hmm... You need to have two layers. The first one is with the picture. The other layer is the one where you draw the white line...

Then play around with the colours and the effects on leayer two till you get the sabre light you want... then merge them and tada!....

You can do the same thing in Adobe After effects. Basically, I think it would be pretty much the same process as Ironclaw explained. But After Effects is sorta like Flash mixed with Photoshop. So you could take that glow and tween it so it'll make your movement so you don't have to draw every frame. I'm sure you could find an exact procedure if you look it up.

The process is called rotoscoping.

Yepp, could be done in Flash aswell... but not at the same quality as Flash can't export with perfect quality... I have tried... Imported a clip with 100% quality and exported it with 100% quality... but the quality lowered...

Arrgh!! I do CG work and After Effects sucks compared to the great Combustion. Combustion and Maya were used to make Hollow Man.

Also, check out Duality (www.crewoftwo.com). Duality was made with Final Cut Pro, Commotion, After Effects, Universe, and Photoshop. Duality was made on Macs running Mac OSX, the world's best OS.

After Effects is for 3D compositing, rotoscoping and effects. Commotion is for mattes, and motion painting. Boris RED is for effects titling, and rotoscoping. Combustion does everything. But one of the best compositing, special effects, rotoscoping, painting, and matte software is Shake
. Shake was used to make the LOTR movies.

Easy lightsaber effects.

I hope you aren't saying FLash is good for easy lighsaber effects. Commotion would be best for easy lightsaber effects. Download a demo from Pinnacle Systems's website and see for yourself. Flash isn't for stuff like this. Now, my mind could be changed if someone here made something as good as Duality in Flash only. That's an impossibility though. :rolleyes: :p :D

And remember its not easy lightsaber effects im looking for. Its realistic ones

P.S.duality?

Get Commotion from here

This is just a demo, though. if you know how to use Photshop, this will be easy to learn. (BTW, if you use a Mac, you have access to tools such as Final Cut Pro or iMovie. iMovie is the FREE video editing program included with every Mac. iMovie's very powerful. it even does blue-screening!)

As for Duality, watch it here: www.crewoftwo.com

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Originally posted by Beatcow
And i cant find the glow effect. I draw a line in Photoshop 6.0, but cant do anything with it. (I just got photoshop yesterday.)

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Make new layer, draw line on that layer.
Now choose from menu:
Layer>>Layer Style>>Outer Glow
Play with options there :)

Ok, now that i have my digital camcorder i am gonna make some movies. Do you know how i can extract the background from a movie? I can do it easily with the photoshop magnet lasso but there is no such thing in MX. I need to do it in MX because i dont feel like always importing exporting frames.

P.S I have a green wall! Or an avacado wall.

Commotion can do that easily. DL the demo/buy the software. BTW, what video editing software are you using? Hopefully not Windows Movie Maker or anything like that.

NONE! Its all in Flash MX.But there is one program that came with my comp: Roxio Video Wave Movie Creator.

I like just importing all the frames in flash and then editing them. Can I like specify the eraser to erase all the background. Example;

The background is green, but with the generation transfer in Flash, the green wont be monocolor. It will have all different shades. Can I find the lightest green shade and the darkest green shade and erase everything on the frame that is between those two shades?

For the third time, it'll take too long to do this in Flash. Flash does not do motion painting like Commotion. Commotion was used in movies like Gladiator and Lord of the Rings and, being a user myself, I can say that it rocks. Flash is not for special effects and video editing and compositing!!!

No Flash's ereaser doesn't work like that. Since you want to take the long way around, remove the green from each frame using Photoshop's magic wand tool. Then export image files and import as frames in Flash.