• Adobe After Effects

  Lightsaber question..

  Posted by Baozer on July 3, 2007 at 12:13 am

  Hey,
  Does anyone know how to obscure more than one person using Andrew Kramer’s method in

  https://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/saber2/index.htm (?)

  For example, if you were making a film, and at one point one person is obscuring the saber and a few seconds later, he/she was obscuring it again, how would you go about doing that? I was going to interpret the method and do it the same way for multiple people but I wasnt sure. Any inputs would be greatly appreciated.

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  David Yeaman replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Scott Roberts

  July 3, 2007 at 5:26 am

  I’d probably mask off the saber when it’s behind the other guy, since it probably only does that for a few frames at a time.

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  Baozer

  July 4, 2007 at 6:46 pm

  Thank you. So right before the saber is obstructed, you create a mask for the part that is obscured and change the mode to subtract? And create keyframes?
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  David Yeaman

  December 4, 2009 at 6:44 am

  Hi, I’m having this problem too. I tried putting a subtract mask on the lightsaber but it wont behave properly (i’m guessin because the lightsaber preset itself affecting the solid interferes with the mask.) Is there anyway to create a mask on a separate layer (like a null) and have it affect the lightsaber?

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