So I have spent the majority of my time off this evening attempting to recreate the opening crawl from the Star Wars films. See the result below. I haven’t yet been able to recreate the large “Star Wars” that first appears and then fades quickly into the background. I am still researching ways to do that. This is strictly the text crawl.
Please note that I did not add any music as that is a simple process and not something that I feel I need to practice. I also did not create the crawl with the proper scroll speed. I can adjust the timing as needed and re-render to match soundtrack needs. I created this purely to see how close to the original I could get visually.
Let me know how I did if you find the time and have something useful to say. I don’t mind a critical review, so don’t be afraid if that is how you feel.I plan on continuing my research into the large text “Star Wars” opening, but my next goal is to practice a bit of rotoscoping for lightsaber effects.
http://www.benismyhero.com/haleakala.html take a look at that
*Edited to make link click-able.
Yes, I watched that video and was impressed with the opening. That is, until I found out about the application used to create it, lol. See it here: http://alienryderflex.com/crawl/
It is Mac only (so far) but very slick. If I can make the school thing work, I have heard that the engineering students get Mac Book Pro’s…
I used only Adobe After Effects CS3 for the entire process. I did everything by hand, no scripts. I made the text layer a 3-D object and adjusted the camera angle and position by hand as well. I made sure to use original text and even verified the line-breaks were authentic as well. I eye-balled the text color, but had some help from the web as far as font selection is concerned.
Have you thought about using flash? With a proper font you can get it to do almost anything. Not sure how you would export the result into a proper movie format though. Anyways I think it’s very cool. Always been a fan of Star Wars.
You did a good job here. Looks very much like a rip from the movie itself!
I ripped an ascii version of the movie for archive purposes last year. I didn’t want to see the applet vanish from the net.
See it: http://www.8ing.com/viewnews.cgi?id=EElFZZFZFVqskXmfXU&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=viewnews