Lightsabre video rotoscoping (with future tutorial)

[J.L_Arts]

Finished!!!

I’ll start on the tutorial tomorrow.

[Nuntius]

@J.L Arts

I mean a curve in the top when the blade is swung.

UPDATE!!!
I’ve given up on the curve, it’s just not possible by practical means as far as I’m concerned.
Also, with the motion blurs that I have in my raw test clips, the stunt blade does blur rectangly not with a curve at the top.
But my major achievement is my masking. Seeing as we can’t really mask, what I’ve done is to use more than one plane rather than make one and mask bits out later. I’m uploading my latest clip to youtube now.

All thats left is sabre clashes and I’m done and I’ll start writing a tutorial!

Assuming you’re using nodes, Blender 2.46 supports curved vector blur. Does that not work?

[J.L_Arts]

Never tried that. Besides, the stunt blade blurs seem more rectangular than round anyway.

[J.L_Arts]

FINISHED!!! WOOT!!!

Here’s the tutorial.

Blender sabre tutorial.rar