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http://geocities.com/thesabresmith
This is my star wars website, devoted to everything about the Jedi and Sith orders. From costuming to role playing, a little bit of philosophy, martial arts and fan film making.

http://goldeny.com
This is the website of one of my best friends, Yakov is an excellent artist and fellow fan film maker. Check out his 2D & 3D work, galleries and tutorials.

http://tumblemonster.com
Tumble is another CG artist and gymnast I met trying to make my film.

Star Wars Fan Film Sites

http://theforce.net
This is in my opinion the best star wars fan site around, excellent fan fiction, films, comics and more.... There are other good ones like Rebelscum.com but I have always preferred the resources and materials available at TF.N

http://www.geocities.com/dallasknights/
This is the home of Dallas Knights productions and my favorite fan film; A Question of Faith. It is by no means the highest quality film available in terms of video or audio quality but what it lacks there for me it more then makes up for with story, acting and fight choreography. It is an excellent movie, well worth seeing and highly recommended. I cannot wait for the long awaited sequel!

http://homepage.mac.com/tbx_productions/TBX/index.html
TBX Productions made one of my other favorite films; Challenge of the Sith. Again not the greatest in all aspects, it is still a very inspiring film to me in terms of story, ideas and scope. I am also patiently waiting for COTS 2

http://crewoftwo.com/
One of the best fan films available is still Duality, a film shot entirely against blue screen, it has great characters, costumes, choreography, effects and an original story. Few films since have equaled it.

http://www.brokenallegiance.net/
A great film all around, together with Duality and Knightquest it has inspired a “revolution” in fan films, raising the bar in terms of visual quality and special effects so that many productions now rival big budget studio films.

Star Wars Reference sites

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Quadrant/7637/
If you want detailed drawings or schematics of Lightsabres the only thing I can suggest is to turn to “the darkside”. It is simply the best place to go for high detailed Lightsabre dimensions.

http://www.partsofsw.com/
This site endeavors to try and identify the “parts” of star wars, the “real world” items used to make the props from the movies, from flash guns to lady razors....

http://www.blast tech.com/
Named for the fictional weapons manufacturer in the star wars back story/ expanded universe (Blas-Tech), this site is one of only a couple of sites that you can buy high quality, new, reproduction props. If you want Lightsabre grips, emitters and buttons or an authentic Han Solo blaster this is the place. But they are a little expensive for my taste. But that probably because I am incredibly poor. If I had money I’d buy a couple of everything.

http://parksabers.com/
If you want to buy a Lightsabre Parksabers are possibly “the most powerful sabers in the universe” (tm) They have a great selection of original sabre hilts and in a move I can only describe as brilliant, they also supply newly manufactured Graflex 3-cell flashguns. True they are a little expensive, but about the going market price and I would trust this guy and his new ones over some guy on ebay with a used one he “thinks” is the one they used.

http://bigyellowbox.tripod.com/
As a novice prop maker I found this site and loved it, I still visit often in hopes of updates... but there never seem to be any. This is a great site with many ideas for making your own Lightsabre hilts from everyday hardware store parts. There are plenty to choose from in all styles, all are easy to build and are affordable. The sabres I build are my own designs based on techniques and Ideas I got from this site. Unfortunately because it is a small site with a lot of traffic it goes down frequently.

Film making

http://homebuiltstabilizers.com
This is one of the best and sadly only places I have been able to find that openly discusses and describes building a steady-cam, a device used to move around freely with a camera whilst trying to eliminate shaking.

http://www.student.virginia.edu/~fms uva/steadycam/
This is probably the widest known cheap/home made steady-cam site I know of. If you do a search-no matter where, this site normally comes back.

Other sites I have found on camera stabilizers that I found interesting, but do not necessarily endorse are:

http://www.dvcamerarigs.com/index.html
http://www.codydeegan.com/
http://home.pacifier.com/~tmnathe/boom.html
http://www.digitalevolutionproject.com/stabilizerX.htm

Ok and here are just some good resources I have found for film making in general, for the inexperienced, low and no budget film makers out there.

http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/index.html
http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/film.htm
http://www.horrorfind.com/Horror Movies/Indie Horror Shorts/

http://unhollywood.com/index.htm#indexlist
http://www.filmunderground.com/

Computer Generated Effects

For a few easy to follow effects tutorials I recommend looking at

www.theforce.net or
GoldenY.com

For a greater selection of more complicated tutorials and a large forum:

www.3dcafe.com

And just a couple of places to look for smaller, more pocket friendly softwares to help with post production:

http://fxhome.com and Divx.com