Ben and Alex with their light sabers
FanFilmFX, an offshoot of cinematic plugin developer, Dashwood Cinema Solutions, has announced the availability of its Star Wars©-inspired VFX plugins. With the help of Dashwood developers, super fans and FanFilmFX designers, Alex Dashwood (age 12) and Ben Dashwood (age 10) have developed plugins that pay tribute to the iconic visual effects, emulating lightsabers, blaster bolts and transitional wipes.
Rotoscoping Saber Blade effect in FCPX
The first round of FanFilmFX VFX plugins includes:
- Saber Blade: The weapon of choice for any true Jedi, easily keyframe and rotoscope lightsaber effects into videos to achieve the quintessential battle scene.
- Blaster Bolt: Add laser-shooting guns to intensify fight scenes by animating a Blaster Bolt’s laser burst effects onto your own space battle videos.
- Space Wipes: Take a tip from the director himself and emulate the scene transitions used heavily in the movie.
Blaster Bolt Plugin for Premiere Pro
FanFilmFX plugins shown in FCPX
Fan Film FX
Future FanFilmFX Plugins
Currently in development and due out in early 2016 are a second wave of Star Wars-inspired plugins from FanFilmFX featuring effects such as Space Visor, Holo Projection, Ghost Master, Starfield, Hyperspeed, Opening Scroll and End Credits. The FanFilmFX and Dashwood duo is also developing additional VFX plugins that emulate other iconic films including Star Trek©, The Matrix©, Predator©, Back to the Future©, Ghostbusters©, James Bond© and Harry Potter©. Special effects fans can look forward to the prospect of imitating their favorite effects from these franchises in the near future.
All FanFilmFX plugins run on the FxFactory platform. Visit https://fxfactory.com/download/ to download the FxFactory app and FanFIlmFX plugins.
Pricing and Host Support
Each FanFilmFx plugin offers a trial version and a limited-feature free version. Full-featured FanFilmFX plug-ins retail at 19.00 USD. All plugins require a modern Macintosh computer running either OS X Mavericks 10.9 or Yosemite 10.10 with an ATI/AMD, NVIDIA or Intel HD graphics card with at least 512MB of VRAM.
Host support includes Apple’s Final Cut Pro X v10.1x, Adobe After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC and Apple Motion 5.1. To use the plugins in Final Cut Pro 7, users are required to download the FxFactory 4.1.9 app.
