Lightsabers
in After Effects
August 27, 2016 - Brad Nelson
Adobe After Effects
- Features:
- Keying
- Tracking
- Compositing
- Animation
- Bad at export (use ffmpeg)
- Great for presentation effects
- CPU/GPU Intensive
- Someday in WebAssembly!?
Lightsabers
- 1977 - Star Wars
- Rotoscoped (Nelson Shin)
- 1983 - Return of the Jedi
- Green
- 1999 - Phantom Menace
- Digitally Rotoscoped
- 2015 - Force Awakens
- On-set LEDs, Digitally enhanced
LEDs
- 1907 - Electroluminescence
- 1962 - Visible spectrum
- Cheap starting in the 1970s
- Blue LEDs
- 1993 - Nakamura, Hiroshi Amano, and Isamu Akasaki
- 2014 - Nobel Prize in Physics
