In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Andrew Kramer demonstrates how to create a light saber -- surprisingly enough, something that is still being asked about.
Click on the link above to find Andrew's tutorial.
Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Light Saber by steve76 on Mar 25, 2007 at 11:52:35 am
Thanks Andrew! Next time I need to mosh up Darth Vader I know where to get the gear! And I really hope that Dating Thing works out...actually, for that split second I saw her there, she didn't seem to look that bad...
Re: COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating a Light Saber by James Gordon on Sep 9, 2008 at 1:53:26 am
Just thought you guys might like a ringing endorsement of this plug-in...
I was recently brought a few clips for America's Next Top Model where there was an extremely short turnaround but the producers wanted a more realistic laser effect of some models being placed in a scanning tube.
Gotta get those measurements right, people!
Anyway, I found Andrew's tutorial and plug-in and, when I put them together, managed to patch 5 of them together to make the producers very happy.
Here is a link to the effect. You must go to about 2:40 in the timeline and it goes for a minute:
It's not my youtube page nor do I lay claim to any effect you see on there aside from the models being laser scanned (they placed kind of a janky radar from like 1950 over it as a plate). Nevertheless, I thought since you made me look so good Andrew that I would give you a real-life application to check out for your own enjoyment.
Thanks so much for the tutorial and the plug-in. It was very generous of you to offer it up to people.
