Sims 2 Lightsaber

This article was originally written by Tacoshack27 for the Sims99 Resource Articles.

As you can probably guess the lightsabers aren't really in the game but are digitally put in after the scene is shot.

I shot the scene with the person doing their actions that I need for the lightsaber scene.
I took the complete scene into the program Adobe After Effects.
I made a new composition layer which will be used to overlay the video clip.
I made a High Quality beam, looks just like a saber and I can adjust length, width, color.
I placed the beam near his hand at the starting point and clicked on the animate buttons.
From here I animated the start and end points of the beam to move along with the motion of the sim's hand. If the beam needed to be infront of the sim, then I just adjusted the size of the beam to be from his shoulder to his head type length.
I moved the keyframe time a line ahead when I needed to make changes. After it was all completed, the beam became animated and it appeared that the sim is wielding a lightsaber.