VFX Artists EXPLAIN Evolution of Lightsabers
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I have several Manley lightsabers and the skills to use them.
I didn't expect you to be into VFX, with the amount you know about space I figured you wouldn't have enough time for much else
I loved your ksp series, I hope you do another one when ksp 2 comes out. man. Keep up the good work please!
@@bloopbloop9687 Because they aren't VFX, they're real lightsabers from a galaxy far far away!
Unexpected Manley appearance
HELLOOUU, fly safe scott
I'm a boomer and I have a request. The first time I saw 3D rendering as a kid was in 1986 with Kraftwerk's music video Music Non Stop. I'd love for you guys to talk about it sometime. Thanks for the awesome content as always!
Honestly that could be another show for them “VFX artists react to music video effects”
Go away boomer. You've been here long enough
@@domohuerta6284 imagine being such a douche to someone being polite and asking a simple request. The ok boomer shit got old fast cause people like you keep overusing it
I'm pretty sure that if you were a kid in the 80's you're gen x not a boomer
Ok boomer (nah, it's not funny anymore) I like your suggestion! :D
“I won’t stop making bad jokes until one of them is good”
“CUT”
I made lightsaber props on the prequels. We used a metal called durilium, and it kept on bending. But we kept on shooting with the actors fighting with bent rods.
I remember pointing this out to a guy from ILM he said don't worry we paint in the glow afterwards. I said yes but youre going to have to paint out the bent rods as well, so it doubles the work loads on each shot. He looked kind of worried.
We spray painted each of the the metal rods orange and green and then shrink wrappped plastic over them to stop flecks of paint firing off.
The hero handles would be moulded with a large screw thread placed into the each cast which we would screw the duriluium rods onto.
This was a nice read, wish more people saw it.
Brown is dark orange, you can’t do a bright brown. However, I used to play with led lighting, and discovered that if I put a pure red light on one side and a light green on the other of a textured surface, the eye was tricked into seeing brown within the light & shadow, so perhaps if you did a white core with a flickering red and green surrounding glow, with enough adjustment it could look brown?
Brown is desaturated dark orange, think trees or chocolate or anything that is brown
Your brain can’t comprehend the mixture of red and green it’s sees brown
Same with blue and yellow
Technology Connections did an episode called "BROWN". 👌😎
I recommend it.
@@subliminalvibes I agree. The Episode is fantastic.
Short summary: Brown light does not really work because brown is just orange but darker. It is depends on context. Your display can show you brown light, because there are brighter things around it. A brown lightsaber can't really work because the lightsaber is supposed to be something thats brighter than its surroundings.
"It's Orange, with context!"
"I only watched Star Wars once. I didn't think they were that good."
It's as if a million voices suddenly cried out in hatred...
Haha yea, I can accept people saying they weren’t that good, it’s okay to have their own opinion. But nobody can deny their position in the film history and will forever be remembered. The original series ofc.
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@@toeknee3302 Fuck opinions all my homies hate opinions
Nah he's right. Star wars is a mediocre fantasy series for children. 2 good movies out of 9, woweee
@@Papersheepp But it made a huge impact in the film industry
"Our Lightsabers are 2 inches longer and extra girthy for that THIIIIICK slice." Best line ever.
Go THIIIIICK or go home lol
69 likes, I don't wanna spoil it
Nice
I like how they were literally just mocking stereotypical manly stuff, and then gets sponsored with an outdoorsman kit.
Definitely a direct parody of Sasquatch. So good
What’s even crazier is that Dr. Squach got sponsored by Star Wars
From what I see on their site they don't really lean into the whole "fragile man" demographic the way most of those sorts of products do. Their products are 100% geared towards stereotypically manly stuff, but they don't mention that anywhere on their site - - very welcome IMO because all that stuff is cool as hell and there's no shame in liking any of it but if it were me I'd be turned off by marketing that was like "HEY MAN! ARE YOU TIRED OF FEELING LIKE A GIRL? THEN BUY OUR KNIFE-A-LIFE KNIFE-PER-MONTH BOX"
"I only watched Star Wars once. I didn't think they were that good."
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lmaoooo
Lol good thing or else he'd of seen the last 3 movies
ikr what is wrong with zoomers
@@domohuerta6284 he said he watched it when he was 12
hes basically peter parker in the mcu talking about old movies
3:17 Ryan vs Dorkman are some of the most legendary fight on the internet. The choregraphy is so well thought
Totally forgot about that video. It was one of my favorite to watch back in the day
Yup! Lucas even put an homage to them in RotS with Kenobi's fighting position. Ryan may have done effects on that one as well, if I'm remembering correctly.
They are legends. Remember dorkman got in a car accident and went through physical therapy. Hope he's doing well.
@@JarrettOriginal His name is Ryan Wieber. He worked at LucasArts, not LucasFilm, and worked on the ROTS video game, not the movie.
I literally just watched it yesterday or the day before because I just remembered it. And then this video comes out. It's a bit of a coincidence
The original Star Wars still rotoscoped the color over the scene captured light reflections from the sabers. By hand. Plus they had on set pyro effects coinciding with saber impacts.
I was literally looking in the comments to see if anyone mentioned that. Congrats, Jim. On "The Making of Star Wars" I think they even show some of the rotoscope animation by itself.
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Everyone alway, ALWAYS forgets about the clash effects. Even the Disney movies don't include them. Those bright yellow flash frames were an important component of the original trilogy, adding a visual impact to the clashes for the audience that was almost too quick to process. This is the sort of thing that gets lost to history and contributes to later effects not looking 'right' for those that saw earlier examples.
Nico's salt over the "fringe SW canon" is so perfect. Truly a man of distinction.
Heh, they skipped over my favorite low-tech lightsaber effect in the OT. When Obi-Wan faces Darth Vader and ignites his saber, there's no jump cut... because the reflective stick was already in place, and Alec Guiness was simply pointing the tip directly at camera so the length couldn't be seen. Then he rotated his wrist outward, and the camera's forced perspective made it look like the blade was extending.
Gotta love using that practical effect of what technology you have in place.
And don't forget that you could see the power cable hidden up Obi-wan's Jedi cloak sleeve during his duel with Vader
neat
There was a jump cut. Alec Guinness at first was just holding the handle. Then they froze the frame and handed him a new reflective light saber prop, and then they did what you described. But you are right, it's such a great low-tech manuever to achieve a great effect. I remember seeing this in the 1984 TV special that Mark Hamill narrated.
Rogue One was amazing for me tbh. I thought the scene where Vader opened his saber, and the red light illuminating him was the only light source... It was like the directors went "finally. we can use ambient light from sabers because our CGI is finally good enough.... lets go balls deep..."
Yeah, that's how I felt about the Rey vs Kylo Ren fight at the end of Ep 7. Not only were both sabers giving off illumination, but you could see the snow hitting the blades and sizzling. I loved how they could take such a well-worn effect and make it new again just by putting some modern twists on it.
Except that they did add ambient light (especially behind him) so you could clearly see his silhouette.
@@jasonblalock4429 On the whole the movie could have been a lot better, but damn if the effects weren't absolutely stunningly good...
I highly dislike that film for many reasons. But the production crew in every area did a damn fine job. The Vader scene was pure fan service, but it looked damn good.
That scene felt like it was made for manbabies who get off to seeing hollywood put their favorite characters on screen regardless of why.
6:17 I just gotta say that, when it comes to things that are dark with a glow, it would be sick to see a "Blackhole" style effect where it's an inverted glow. Instead of pumping light out into the radius it instead absorbs the light, warping it around a true black core.
they did something kind of like that with the darksaber, but there was still some white texture inside the black blade. SWTOR does have black core lightsabers in the game, so that's probably the closest you can see for now.
@@Nagranddan ye
12:42
Josh: "This is my first Video with you guys, what should I do to make sure the audience loves me?"
Niko: "Just Be yourself"
~ Filming Video ~
Josh: "I only watched Star Wars once. I didn't think they were that good."
Niko: "NOT LIKE THAT!"
Me who's seen Technology Connections about the color brown: it's actually just dark orange. Black would be a much harder color to make "glow"
Came here to say this :)
Yep! Brown isn't a color of light, it's just a shade we've given a name to because it's so prevalent in our world. Just like you can make red light but not, say, maroon, or blue but not navy, same problem with brown. It's subtractive, not additive.
Finaly some one
I was so disappointed!! When Niko was in *explaining mode* I was assuming he was going to make an aside like, "You know, there isn't such thing as Brown light..." A completely lost opportunity!
And this is why the Darksaber technology is so underutilized. In effect, you have to make it spit light out from the edges to make the black glow, representing a black hole.
As soon as you said Brown Lightsaber, I was reminded of Technology connections video about brown light and how it's just Orange with context. It's fascinating.
Brown more like Dark Orange
I was hoping that they would mention that video
I'm loving all of the references to Tech Connections. We are all a bunch of mega nerds.
Having followed you guys for over a decade now, it's amazing to see how far you've come and to see you bringing new talent into the industry with your amazing crew. Keep up the awesome work guys!
God, we haven’t seen Ryan vs Dorkman in a very long time.
I still say Ryan vs Brandon is one of the best saber fights I’ve ever seen…but that’s just me.
I love these professional dorks! Just seeing the BTS of Niko & Sam playing with the light sabers gave me extreme nostalgia. They are still up to the same shenanigans as they would many years ago. Love it!
Def old school vibes. Esh!
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It’s nice to see Corridor going back to it’s roots with their short and funny film sketches
Hate on the sequels all you want. Having LEDs shine on the actors' faces was amazing though.
(Though attack of the clones did have closeups of Hayden Christensen and Sir Christopher Lee with lights on them)
It's a really great, simple effect
Cool looking lightsabers is not what makes a good film
@@thehdtv7552 Nobody said otherwise.
@@thehdtv7552 that's why the prequels are trash
@@MichaelM28 Nah, the prequels are better than the sequels. They’re good without the sequels existing, too.
Ryan vs. Dorkman! I haven’t watched those in years. Those videos were so absolutely phenomenal. The choreography was amazing, but the effects of the lightsabers cutting the environment around them was fantastic too
4:42 When I was in school for visual effects back in 2001 we had a lesson on light sabers in After Effects. Yes, we were animating them manually frame by frame but we had several layers to make sure it had that white core, then colored glow around it.
@Cat Lover Freelance.
it's so rare that you see anyone bring up the fact that the core of the lightsaber is actually the color of the blade and the reason why you dont see it is because it's overexposed. if it was really just white then the glow would be white too. if you saw a "real" saber in person the core color would be more obvious than it appears in the movies. like when you see people take video of their practical blades on youtube and the core appears white but in person you can see a very obvious color.
Niko introduces an interesting concept that I've thought about before too, which is that we can imagine light conditions that are physically impossible to create in reality. Imagine for instance a grey LED light that casts grey light. It seems pretty unremarkable but it's impossible without some sin city esque color grading because it would just be dim white light in reality.
Cool to see the whole crew getting featured more whether in introductions to videos or even the ad spots.
Video idea: Make the most DISsatisfying CGI.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes! Hopefully Corridor sees it!
I second this!
Nails on a chalkboard go brrrrrr.
That’s just that new UFO series on Netflix. The most god awful CGI.
They need to see this
Wren already "almost" did it
The way cgi has evolved over the years is amazing
@then ur awesome Quit spamming.
The craziest part is how they achieved everything pre-cgi.
@@NineteenNinety yeah
It's mainly gotten easier. That is NOT a complaint.
@then ur awesome That’s probably the fifth account I’ve seen spamming the same video.
I like to imagine duels being so dance like because they can both see the future slightly, so it's a bigger game of chess than average sword fighting. Never got to see it in the last trilogy
Realistically, if you can both predict each others moves you wouldn't waste all your energy exchanging blows back and forth like that, though. Every fight would just be like the Rebels Obi-Wan versus Maul fight where it's mind games followed up by a singly decisive strike.
@@hiimchrisj realistically, real people with small measures of armed combat experience can "predict" one another's "moves" to a degree and it never results in mind games and one decisive blow because real people arent psychic and even if they were, you would have to account for human error, outside conditions, and luck. anyone who has ever been in a mock swordfight for more than a minute can tell you that no swordfight is ever that cut and dry. So, in short, normal people can achieve similar levels of "focus" and they would never conclude in the way you describe. Therefore, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Finally the Op said "I like to imagine". there was no need for you to come in with some sense of higher understanding of bladework where there clearly isnt any nor any need for it to begin with.
3:15 THAT was a throwback wow
Niko, now is a stunt guy, so now he knows how to jump backwards when sam "hit" him with the invisible saber. Not using a mattres.
Niko as the "Stunt Guy" is as reasonable as Sam being the "Man" for Lightsabers for Men.
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Seeing Ryan vs Dorkman gave me an idea: VFX artists(and/or stuntmen) react to fan-made lightsaber fights.
it'd be a never ending series assuming any of the old stuff from back then are still online somewhere.
3:16 - damn that video is a throwback. Brings back memories of past youtube
gotta say, that hair lightsaber looked fantastic, super cool specular highlights!!
The easier way to do a camoflaged light saber, would be to make it so its actually a blade that camoflages with whateve is behind it.
So you could essentially do it with just a pixelation filter like whats used to censor part of a video. Make that look like a digital camo pattern.
YESSSS. Talk about the lack of proper trails in the new ones though. I love how the new lightsabers emit LED glow though!
@then ur awesome when was the last time you talked to another person
@then ur awesome Prepare to get banned.
yeah notice the lack of glow on the actors faces in the prequels, especially when cg Yoda's face is illuminated by his saber
@@JTM610 to be fair that was due to tech limitations at the time, not laziness.
That's because we now have technology to create LED glow with proper stunt sabers. Almost all of the stunt saber makers that are out on the market today? Were used for the most recent renditions. Ahsoka Tano's own lightsabers in The Mandalorian Season 2, I don't doubt, were created by SOMEONE within the industry who has been making our personalized stunt sabers for kids and adults of all ages the last 20 years.
Why is this one of my favorite videos you guys have made. 😂
I find it funny that I was only subbed to this until a minute ago and not corridor, I guess I appreciate the behind the scenes of movies as much as the movies themselves
14:25 That moment when the camo lightsaber actually starts to blend into the forest.
Oh my god the Ryan vs Dorkman Throwback made me feel young again.
It's very cool to see the other Corridor Crew members having a shot at the videos!
This literally couldn't have been a better video for Bespoke Post to sponsor
I really liked Sam talk about Dungeons and Dragons being an open source, we could really use some more info on what is available to artists to create or to sell or to make content from. If you're reading this please consider. ❤️
Corridor came out SWINGING at the soap guy.
Love it.
I hate that guy and loathe those commercials
Holy crap! That Quigon photoshop tutorial is one of my first favorited videos on TH-cam! Used that tutorial all the time haha
Best channel and content on TH-cam, you guys are awesome, thanks for the hard work!
Maybe dark sabers should look more like an event horizon, maybe breaking down light into colors or something...
That's exactly what it is. An event horizon on the edge of a black hole. That's the white rim of light you see being spewed.
7:38 - For real these commercials have been everywhere. Hilarious little bit!
You guy's really inspire me so thank you guy's
Please react to the clone wars animations over the years 🙏 they've come a long way since 2007 and the Bad Batch looks amazing!
true bad batch and tcw s7 have the best tv show animation i have ever seen
In the words of a certain Sith Lord, “Dew it!”
I keep wishing they would re-render the old seasons and release in 4K.
Truely Remaster the series to today's standards.
Good idea for animators react!
@@mbogucki1 There's just one problem... they'd need to use motion-capture for the duels like they did with season 7.
0:43 At that moment, Niko became close to the dark side
Bro this video with the editing was funny as hell c:
Shoutout to your Pixelbook at 7:04! I use one for all my journalist work. Great machine.
FUN FACT: The little round cylinder on the lower back of Storm Troopers were supposed to be LIGHTSABER HOLSTERS.
Originally George Lucas was going to make them all Space Samurai.
Then chickened out because it would make the script dumb in a bunch of places and the Jedi "Less special".
great decision
@@Yarblocosifilitico I guarantee it was his producers who said that’s fucking stupid lol
@@itsd0nk Which was a good thing. OT would be as shit as PT if Lucas was let 100% loose with his ideas. OT is as good as it is because his wife made it in the editing room.
@@itsd0nk If only those producers had used their veto power in many other cases...
And instead it became a thermal detonator.
If you haven't already done it, could you review the scene in Spaceballs where they watch their own movie.
i dont know how many times i watch "Ryan vs Dorkman" back in the days, great classic stuff.
Gosh, I love behind the scenes for VFX videos.
This is the only sponsorship which I didn't skipped 😂😂😂
I'm 22 but I feel 42 hearing Josh's opinions on Star Wars 😭
I love how well Sam embraced his inner Dr. Squach spokesperson to do this ad lmao.
I love that you used the coast line of Tel aviv for the motion blur demonstration=]
The sponsored segment was 10/10 lol. Just hilarious
When Nick asked "how would you do a brown lightsaber" I was like "that's just a dark orange, so do it orange and fix it in post.
The prequel lightsabers are the best no comments needed
I think you guys should look at the Lightsaber Choreography Competition for either VFX Artists React or Stuntmen React at some point.
Hearing you guys swearing makes you seem so much more human than the extremely family friendly sounding SFX reaction vids, I like it
Would’ve really been tempted to leave the camo lightsaber as is and say I’m done. “Oh it’s there, it’s just really good camo” 😂
Seeing the clip from Ryan vs. Dorkman was a blast to the past
Joshes smile is so contagious lmao
0:38 Josh has been branded a Heretic, and will be hunted down by the Inquisition.
Josh: I didn't think they were that great, honestly
The Fandom: *_HERESY_*
7:41 lol
thank you for that one!
0:40 Niko : I wonder if we still have the guillotine
Those soap guys just started doing Star wars commercials!!!
Did they know when they started working on this?
Oh man I was all excited I thought you guys were gonna compete to see if they could make a lightsaber look as good as it does in the sequel trilogy haha
Niko was so done with Sam and his efforts to push the lightsaber down.😂😂. I love these guy's.
P.s
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Damn that camo lightsaber is dope!
Can we get a "I was arrested at Disneyland" shirt? 🤣❤️
About the camo patern lightsaber
It would've been cooler if you designed a procedural camo texture with 3d noise in blender or something else
Then render the blade as volumetrics using it
CONGRATS ON 5 MIL!!!!!
I had to stop 11 seconds in because of the gun lightsaber, omg I’m almost crying lol
I have a question. In all of the Star Wars lore, has there ever been a Jedi or Sith lord that has created a lightsaber solely from force energy? Like if a Sith lord can shoot lightning out of they're hands, why not be able to focus it into an actual force energy blade or something? Could that be a thing? Should that be a thing?
I believe that was partially the case in the old EU. There were force-imbued weapons, but they took a ton of concentration to do so.
@@itsasquid there were, but those were actual weapons like swords or spears that were imbued with force energy. So not exactly what Bigtex was talking about.
Could it? Not really. If anything, the use of Force powers to manipulate lightning is considered a dark-sider technique, and also expends an enormous amount of physical willpower to achieve. Unless you're effectively immortal (which no one in Star Wars is), you couldn't create such a lightsaber.
HOWEVER
There are lightsabers in Legends that were designed to be activated with ONLY the Force. Unlike the grip panel used on other lightsabers, which included an effective kill switch to turn the saber off if one was disarmed or had it knocked out of one's hand, there are also Force-users who created an internal connection matrix that could only be activated if the made the connection through a tiny Force-push within the lightsaber mechanism as a whole.
*In a book there was a Lightsaber that wasn't actually like the ones we all know with technology it was just a kyber crystal strapped to a stick and the Jedi needed to use The Force to make it work, I think it's supposed to be the oldest Lightsaber in canon right now.*
Okay here's an actual, non-speculative answer. Yes, in the old EU, in a Darkhorse published comic series called "Dawn of the Jedi." It took place before even the Old Republic and before the Jedi when the Rakatan Infinite Empire controlled everything. There was a group called "Force Hounds" that were similar to Jedi except the were essentially slaves for the Rakatan. They used Forcesabers, which was just a handle that could channel dark side energy into a blade. The blades could be a variety of colors like traditional lightsabers, but because of it's nature, using one brought the user closer to the dark every time.
Grew up watching Star Wars, but as an adult, I've gotten more into Trek. I'd love to see you do the same video on the transporter cg from the different Star Trek series.
Congratulations on the 5 million subs guys
I watched one of the early VHS copies from a rental store as a kid in the 90s and I remember that pale white lightsaber so clearly. The early less edited versions were so rough but in a charming way. Like watching Krull more for the nostalgia than the actual movie.
0:44 that's the "you're one mistake away from being fired" look. How dare he disrespect Star Wars like that.
"Fringe Star Wars Canon" across The Mandalorian backdrop was my favorite small detail of this video.
11:37 Love the Pocket Operator!
You guys are the most entertaining "second channel" on TH-cam.
No one:
This video's URL: "Leo is old AF."
Day 12 of asking Corridor Crew: Review the CG animation in the “Star Wars The Clone Wars” tv series across all seven seasons plus the spin off series “Star Wars The Bad Batch”
We need them to react to that! The animation has come a long way since 2007.
Hell yeah !! This comment needs way more likes.
"More! MORE!!" love it.
Is it just me who thinks the look of the light sabers in The Phantom Menace is the best one? They were to "floaty" in Ep 2-3 while Ep 1 was just perfection for the light saber look.
Agreed! Also a fan of how they looked in the other prequels, but TPM is the best
The sponsored segment was awesome, I actually watched it for fun
This is really interesting, especially coincidental as I'm making a Star Wars fan series
ALMOST AT 5MIL SUBS CONGRATULATIONS
Dude that camo one was actually awesome.
I have the original Star Wars on VHS and the other thing they did was take out a bunch of scenes. In the scene where Hon and Leia are arguing in the Snow Hallway on Hoth, Leia says she would rather kiss a Wookie then Hon. When Hon walks away off screen he yells "You could use a good kiss." In modern versions that is not said.
You mean Han? :D
You mean Ron? :D