BornCG | Blender VFX Tutorial #13: Lightsaber Duel (Part 1) #b3d @BornCG | Uploaded September 2018 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
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In this Blender VFX Tutorial #13 I cover:

- How to create a glowing lightsaber effect for a fast-moving lightsaber duel / fight.
- How to use compositing nodes to create a glowing blade effect
- How to trim video and export to a sequence of .jpg images files in Blender's video sequence editor window
- How to create and use masks
- How to animate masks

Link to the next tutorial (Part 2) : youtube.com/watch?v=5b8arOHBqSg

**sorry for the less-than-usual audio quality of this tutorial, I turned my mic quality down to 44100Hz while troubleshooting my PC before recording and forgot to turn it back up to 48000Hz.

Looking to RENDER your final result? Check out my UPDATED Tutorial on Rendering to a Video File in Blender 2.79! youtu.be/80N0SIoRNWQ

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