Star Wars

I grew up in the 70's. Which is another way of saying that I grew up with Star Wars. The new movies may be lame. Revenge of the Jedi might have been a little more satisfying that Return of the Jedi. Nobody likes the Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks. But, throughout it all, anyone who has seen any of the movies will admit, lightsabers are cool.

I recently came across some great tutorials about doing lightsaber effects. My first effort is shown below. I'm pretty pleased with it. John Morgan pointed out that the saber throws a shadow. I'd noticed that as well and I originally tried to remove it from the picture, but if you follow the lightsaber link above, you can see that lightsabers throw shadows in the movies too. So, it actually turns out to be accurate.

My saber is made from a 3/4 inch dowel, some PVC pipe, a few PVC pipe fixtures, and electrical tape. The rest was done in photoshop.