I love the sinplicty of Qui Gon's, but the deadly beserker saber of Kylo Ren just can't be beat.
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So what's your favorite lightsaber?
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Kylo's saber (combined with Adam Driver being a pretty big dude) is the one I tend to think looks like it does the most damage. It's the big broadsword of Lightsabers.
Still the GOAT
Yep, so cool.
Now that's something I haven't seen referenced in a long time.
If anyone is into Kylo's Saber but wanted to see it in a non-red variant:
That said, my favorite has to be the Jedi Temple Pikes. I always felt like the more common double sided lightsabers from Maul look unbalanced and hard to maneuver. It's like the blade to hilt ratio is off. These make more sense to me, and I'd love to see Rey use something like this since it seems more akin to her Staff/Pole thing from TFA
That said, my favorite has to be the Jedi Temple Pikes. I always felt like the more common double sided lightsabers from Maul look unbalanced and hard to maneuver. It's like the blade to hilt ratio is off. These make more sense to me, and I'd love to see Rey use something like this since it seems more akin to her Staff/Pole thing from TFA
Definitely Luke's ROTJ saber. The design of the hilt is amazing, the green colour is unreal (and I will forever associate it with having "mastered the Jedi ways" because I always thought that as a kid - Luke was a Jedi Knight by ROTJ and the green colour was a signifier), and the SOUND IT MAKES WHEN IT'S ENGAGED MY GOD.
Luke's green lightsaber. Kylo's was just too edgy and stupid, but I guess it fits his character.
Fire casts a shadow. I think by that metric lightsabers should. The old movies didn't do shadows because they couldn't, and adding them in post, even today, would look shitty.
That is a very, very big spoiler imo. It's from very late in the game. Tag it.
I thought about this a lot before heading to Galaxy's Edge, because I knew I wanted to buy at least one legacy saber, and ultimately Luke's ROTJ lightsaber took the cake.
By that metric, space battles should be quiet, but they aren't. I think fire is not the same as a lightsaber and having it cast a shadow is kind of weird, like it detracts from the supposed lightness of a lightsaber. It really takes me out of the movie for a second when I witness it.
It's the other way around, the old movies didn't remove shadows that were visible in ROTJ because they couldn't, but in the newer movies, all CGI sabers where shadows are literally a matter of flicking an ON/OFF switch did not cast shadows. The same goes for videogames:
So I assume that either by mistake all cg sabers had their cast shadow option turned off, or it was a concious decision that they shouldn't cast any. Also, adding shadows is not at all an obstacle in modern post production. Especially since like 90% of the times, sabers cast shadows in the first place during filming because they used non-glowing rods until the ST.
I think it's just an aesthetics thing, but when I think shadows, I think of something looming over you or something disconnecting you from the light, dramatically, both of which are pretty much the opposite what a lightsaber should be doing.
I think there's one thing we can definitely all agree on, the way Adam Driver has shaped Kylo Ren and created a lightsaber fighting style and stance that is unique to the character is 50% of the reason why that saber is so fucking cool, and why it doesn't come across as totally stupid in the films.
The dude sells the fuck out of it.
The dude sells the fuck out of it.
Dunno what their deal is, lightsabers in our game dont cast shadows and I agree that they shouldnt.
It's somewhere between the general design for Kylo's saber (implied to be Old Republic-era by Rebels) and this beastly thing from SWTOR:
Link to this video?
Season 3 is where Rebels really finds its stride. I'm assuming from your comment that you've stopped with S2? If so give S3 a shot if that's not your cup of tea then yeah you might as well drop it.
I'm a sucker for non traditional sabers. Ren's and Maul's are pretty high up on list, even if I'm not the biggest fan of the overall design of Maul's original. I kind of dig his replacement one though that's got the cane thing going for it. Mace's and the Temple Guards are really high on the list too for the unique blade colors, yellow being my favorite.
That one the Wookie Jedi makes in The Clone Wars that incorporates would is fantastic too.
Honorable mention to Obi Wan's final design as he's my favorite character.
That one the Wookie Jedi makes in The Clone Wars that incorporates would is fantastic too.
Honorable mention to Obi Wan's final design as he's my favorite character.
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This!Kylo takes it for me.
The only lightsaber I've ever thought was cool.
This isn't how visual effects work. They'd still need to manually remove the shadows cast by the stunt sabers, it's not as simple as an "on/off" option. Just sounds like a different artistic decision was made at some point.
Note how I specifically talked about the CG sabers, as in wielded by 100% CG characters like Yoda with no stunt blades whatsoever.
Raging Spaniard I see. Thank you for the information, that's quite interesting.
I'm not sure, they still expend tons of rendering power and time to make these CGI scenes have realistic and consistent lighting. They probably could tell the engine not to render shadows for lightsabers - but maybe they can't. It's not the same as game development. We don't really know.
Most CGI of the prequels was created in Maya and yes, you can turn rendering shadows off there for objects individually, so I doubt that their proprietary software and renderers would not be able to do that. Which is pretty evident by the fact that those sabers in fact do not cast shadows.
Theres alot of cool between the two. I just can't decide which one.
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Still the best fight of the series, higher ground notwithstanding.
Gets worse, too.
I curse you and the rest of this thread for making me aware that this was ever a thing.
Indeed... I'll never forget how much of a beast they made GG look vs how trash he ended up being in the films.
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Anakin's blue and Luke's green are easy mode so I'll mention the other ones I love.
Kylo Ren
Temple Guard (folding variant)
Kylo Ren
Temple Guard (folding variant)
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Huh so that's where that came from.Temple Guard (folding variant)
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So you can add two more to my favorites list.
Love the Leia saber and it's awesome to finally have another color in the movies even if it's only there very briefly.
Bring on Rey and her yellow saber EU!
Love the Leia saber and it's awesome to finally have another color in the movies even if it's only there very briefly.
Bring on Rey and her yellow saber EU!