Sabre Test 1

Overall I think this looks pretty decent as a first attempt, for a four second clip it sure took a hell of a long time to animate. Frame by frame in Flash I would draw around my rope and pick out the brown markers as identifiers to help me when I could barely see the rope at all. I then exported that out as a PNG sequence and overlaid it onto my original video in After Effects. Then the fun part began of adding glows, blurs, mesh warps, and keyframes…. A HELL OF A LOT OF THEM.