This is quickly turning into a video blog. Sorry gang, I’ll have some other content later. I really hope you took the 15 minutes it takes to watch the previously posted Billy Bob Thornton interview, as it’s pretty spectacular.
Anyway, I’m in the video lab, working on what’s turning out to be a pretty standard vacation slideshow. It’s for my production class, and the point is learning how to use Final Cut Pro, which is going just fine. (Like second nature to any apple user.)
As part of the class, we’ve been talking about overused effects. You know, things that after effects and final cut have built in. Mostly, we’ve been talking about dissolves and star wipes and the such. But a more advanced overused effect is the lightsaber rotoscope.
I grew up in the late ’80s. It was always a boyhood dream to fight with a lightsaber, and like the rest of Star Wars, it’s been completely overdone to the point of digust. Any nerd with a computer and stolen software can make it happen.
For instance, this little battle that sullies both the lightsaber and Princess Bride. Leave it be people, leave it be.