Visual Effect Process

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Visual effects process 

First I had to find out how to get an object to look like light sabre.

My Visual effects Project is simple to to have a baseball scene with lasers which would hit a plane
here is the Animatic for the project

This is a test of trying to get the Light sabre effect on an actually movie screen shot 

 I had to use Adobe After Effects to do all the 2D Special effects it involved Roto-scoping and AE. has Tracking features within the program.

Picture of the plane designs 

Next I had to track the shots for the 3D object the Plane.

After Tracking everything I had to put it in maya 

 

 This what it looks like with a bad track.

This is track was done with Voodoo

 

The camera working in Maya.

The test for it flying away in the background.

Test 1)

One I the problems I noticed was that the movement of the  It was too fast and that also the craft was not at the right angle. it should of been.

The 3D scene viewer with the tracks.