I think he used static electricity from socks fresh out of the dryer to make the lightning bolts. At least, that’s how I would do it.

Other effects, such as lightsabers and the lightning from the Jedi’s hands and things like that can easily be accomplished in easy programs like AlamDV2, which is $80, or something more expensive and may be a little harder, something like Adobe After Affects which is over $500!!

It’s your choice. I’d go with AlamDV to accomplish special effects like i stated above, if you’re on a low budget, and After Affects if you have a LOT of money…

Ooh, thanks. I thought it did too.

You have to remember that the only things real in the movie were:

Obiwan fig (with lightsaber handle)
Jango fig (with two pistols)
Sith (with lightsaber handle)
Jedi Starfighter
Slave I
Dooku fig

Well, that actually turns out to be a lot of real elements, but everything else was digital. The electricity was a standard AE plugin (Advanced Lightning; it comes with AE 5.5). There was a tutorial popping up early this year about how to do lightning with the plugin that looks exactly like the lightning in the real AOTC. I tried it, and though it worked, it really only looked nice in close ups. I figured that the plugin looked nice as it was, and came pretty close to looking like the “real thing”. Using real electricity would be…well, I guess a good learning experience, but I would never really need it again. So I threw that idea out the window.

A lot of the other effects were done in AE. The lightsabers, the cloning (with the infamous 250 layer composite ), the titles, even the jumps. My next film should show a useful way of compositing without going overboard. This one was basically a test with digital effects. Considering I had never touched After Effects or 3dsmax before, I think I did pretty well.

Cometgreen

You mean the url? What for?

Cometgreen

It’s in the film directory under “small movies,” but oh well: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Comet … es/aotc.rm
If you have broadband, you can check out the mov file, which is much higher quality (but it’s still about 30mb, so you’d have to be patient): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Comet … aotc_3.mov

Any more reviews welcome. I only got a few reviews the first time I posted it.

Cometgreen

great movie, the clone part was the best scene.

Hmmmmmm….Cometgreen, what is your next movie about?

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