One of the first special effects I ever did when I started making videos was to shoot a sequence of two guys fighting with wood lightsabers and then frame-by-frame add in the glowing blade. I’ve done it a couple of other times since then and it never ceases to be cool. Even if it’s just you and a couple of friends beating each other with sticks, once you add in the lightsaber effect, it becomes cool.
That being said, there’s a really fun collection of 10 great lightsaber mash-ups in which people have added lightsabers into movies like Lord of the Rings, 300, The Princess Bride, and more over at Videogum. Below is a clip someone put together from Pirates of the Caribbean. Click here for the full list.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
so funny! very cool…love the sound effects too.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Totally cool effects. The Star Wars “overlay” on Pirates of the Carribean should have Disney and Lukas running for their lawyers … but I hope that they can take this most excellent joke.