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- logicalnoise, on 10/12/2007, -8/+118why did he come back at the end? WHY DO PLOT HOLES MAKE THEIR WAY INTO EVERY STAR WARS MOVIE!
- gnoswal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45Well you can tell that they're not professionally trained fighters...but for a fan piece...pretty damn good. 8 out of 10... Dugg
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25FYI Ray Park a.k.a Darth Maul, was both his own stuntman and the non fighting actor for Darth Maul. He studies Wushu and it's a little known fact that him and Ewan McGregor bent many of the sabers out of shape during filming because they were swinging the ***** out of them.
- exis73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17He made a tutorial but you didn't provide a link...cmon dude!
http://ryanw.michaelfrisk.com/ryan-w/index.html - boscorelle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16trained fighters?.....you jealous....?
it wasnt about the fighting it was about the effects - weaszel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling us what an "authentic light saber fight" is.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Why is does enthusiasm garner such vitriol here?
I still swear there is a higher percentage of people here with asperger's than other sites.
That was well shot, choreographed, performed and edited.
And consider the format. Were you expecting Reservoir Dogs
or something? Of course it's dorky, it's supposed to be. Look
at 'em! It was a blast to watch. If you immediately hated it, it's
clearly time for your Ritalin. - markperia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13yeah he's jealous...
even if it was made for the effects you cant deny that the choreography was cool. Man, that was almost as good as any of the original star wars lightsaber fights, if not better. - feshmania, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12(since two people asked, I wont directly reply)
I'm pretty sure the reason the kid comes back in the end is purely for dumb purposes, I don't think that there is any real reason for it other than the fact that it's like wtf? - dimsumx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12unless you could do better, you're not one to talk. choreographing something like this takes time and lots of practicing and you just gotta give these guys some credit.
- eatasandwich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I love these self appointed Digg police who decide what should or shouldn't appear on the front page while insulting the creators of the well designed mechanism that brings us all here in the first place.
George W Bush is hardly a president that Americans would vote for. - percyhanna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I just got to say that I found the cinematography in this video way better than most movies these days. A lot of movies with fight scenes in them zoom in too much and have really blurry/shaky shots where you can't even tell what the crap is going on. It's probably to hide a combination of the following:
1 - Crappy stunt guys who can't make the fight sequences look good
2 - Crappy choreographers who can't make good fights so they rely on closeup shots where you don't really see anything.
Maybe neither of these reasons are what's going on, but I still liked being able to see the cool moves these two kids came up with. Sure they're not pros, but how old are they?
Ah well. Just my $0.02. - yeg0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Seen these fan lightsaber duels before, but this probably one of the best, on a technical level. Interesting, but not necessarily front page material.
- Skrolnik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Good Idea. Just submitted this gem to fark.
With a funnier headline, of course. - mrjkwik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5for the asses posting just to flame, uh, he does have a job. from his site "Now, thanks largely to this site working as an online portfolio for me, I have a job as an associate effects artist at LucasArts, which occupies me full-time".
- acceptab1euname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Right on! that was a really nicely made fan film, kudos to those guys for their hard work!
- MarcTheLad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's another one that was made a while ago
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8672065830884811559&q=light saber
2 Martial Artists rotoscoping = teh kewl. - Skrolnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not Bad. No plot to speak of, but that's why there's other fan films like Duality.
The Geek is strong with these two. - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5After Effects is considered the main shizzle for this kind of stuff, but Shake is also an option (it's more comping software, from Apple, actually).
Neither of them are technically free. - pondster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Awesome!
Do you wonder if this is what "Star Wars Kid" really wanted to accomplish when he videotaped himself?
lol - Overdose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Uhm, it was supposed to be a different character, Using the same actor.(tell by the clothes being different)
- Gryfft, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Heh heh heh... TFN rocks. Where would we be without dorky FanFilms anyway?
Dugg. - discoloda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i was quite impressed by that, at first i thought "why should this be on the front page?" but now i know, dugg
- DomoDigital, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He comes back in the end, cuz hes a clone....its a bit of an inside joke at the TFN boards.
- DDarkfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ryan Wieber has been around for a while now... He has really good tutorials for rotoscoping lightsabers in After Effects and other misc effects... www.ryan-w.com...
How is this Digg Related though? - ZapWizard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Well done.
The fight was well thought out.
Could have used a bit more movement around the room, and a few other things destroyed.
(Lightsabers hit the ground without effect) - brandonhines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This was pretty damn cool.
For all you that are against this type of material: I think you're missing the point of Digg. It's a social news site. No where does anything say that Digg has to be exclusive to tech. New Barbie releases aren't getting submitted -- it's all "geekish".
And this video even has tutorials to boot. So tell me again what your problem is? - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4you're just pissed becuase your film got dubbed "star wars kid"
- BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nice pacing, nice camera work, not for a moment disorienting. Good sense of humor. Of all the fan made fights I've seen on the web I'd give this one the higherst rating. As for 4 months of rotoscoping for a sequence of that duration - it's nothing! Good job, guys!
- superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah, the backwards holding thing upset me too, and i strangled a kitten because of it.
- mlayog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Fun for a "home" video, but there sure are plenty of super critical people out there.
- Ryosen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yeah, it's old, but it's new to a lot of people. Not me, of course, I've been a fan of http://www.theforce.net since Troops (http://youtube.com/watch?v=o0eU0x1v57w&search=troops) came out.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. - Teague, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Holy *****. What the ***** is Ryan and Dorkman doing on Digg?
Anyway, Ryan did in fact end up getting hired by LucasArts after someone at the company saw and passed around this video. If you watch the original trilogy Bonus DVD, you can see him in one of the video game documentaries, hanging around with Hayden and Nick Gillard as they show off some of the flashy moves the animators had to replicate. - gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wonder how many times their mom yelled at them during the shoot to take out the trash.
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A few slow spots where the movements looked too rehersed. But overall this was a great piece of work. You can tell they spent some time from beginning to end. Dugg.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's what I immediately noticed more than anything, the precise and
dramatic editing. - grat2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg 2 U
- bigboludo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Totally dorky--very entertaining!
- Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To the people saying posts like this "bring digg down", get over yourselves. It's in the movies section, and a well made, low-budget amateur film of any sort qualifies as tech movie news IMO because it means that more and more, the ability to make crappy Star Wars films doesn't just belong to Lucas anymore. ;-)
It was fun, the effects were very nice for a low budget film, and it only cost a few minutes of my life. I digg.
Tangentially, I love how lightsabers will cut through "anything" - except railings on the Death Star, or cement floors, or whatever else the fight needs them to ricochet off of. - rocu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Most enjoyable... they had fun doing it, and that's what matters. It's a fan film. Of course it's going to be rough around the edges. They're real people who are acting out their fantasies. Great job, guys.
- yongfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am humbled by the talent of these two (both performance-wise and for the effects) - they must be what, in their teens? Very impressive.
- bradford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Impressive" -Darth Vader
- twistx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5He's training to be a cage fighter.
- Henge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That was pretty cool and certainly something most people can't do. I'm not sure why so many of you are so critical of this video for not looking professional enough. However, I noticed that those that were most critical have been buried by negative diggs. Anyways, this is a cool fan piece with nice choreography, camera work, and special effects, especially considering the age and budget of these guys.
- da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3the skinny one is actually the star wars kid after a couple years of training and a subway diet.
- Skrolnik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"No where does anything say that Digg has to be exclusive to tech."
Except for, perhaps the "few simple guidelines to make digg a better place" that are at the very top of the first page of link submission, where the first burger dot just happens to be:
Quality Technology Content: Is your story technology related? - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I have to say, this is the best of the "two guys fighting with no plot or budget" films. These guys are pretty good.
- MartinBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Tangentially, I love how lightsabers will cut through "anything" - except railings on the Death Star, or cement floors, or whatever else the fight needs them to ricochet off of."
I let myself have a little laugh when I thought about that. Nevertheless, my attention was still directed towards that sweet battle. - vaxguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hahah sweet. May Star Wars fan films live forever. Good job =D
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3+digg for the out-of-left-field movie quote that actually fits
hilarious -
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