Deployment Strategy: muzzle flash fx

markcheng · Sep 18, 2006

hey all,
here's a quick post on how I did muzzle flashes for my film. I used AE 7 for this stuff.
Please let me know your thoughts!!

http://www.markcheng.com/video/anatomy of a shot.wmv

this is footage from a panasonic dvx cam..

mc

gmangw · Sep 20, 2006

Your link is a little broken, might want to tinyurl that.

MarkG · Sep 23, 2006

The site software screwed up the link because it has spaces: I'm not a moderator in this forum or I'd fix it.

Thanks for the video, it's pretty interesting: similar to the way we do shots with fake guns, only you've go into more detail on the lighting effects (and we normally add CG shell cases too). It's a good example for the people here who want to do realistic-looking shootouts without using real guns.

markcheng · Sep 24, 2006

hey markG! i'd love to see how your methods come out! can you post some stuff?

MarkG · Sep 24, 2006

Don't have any gun shots handy, unfortunately, it's a while since I've had to do any. But basically it's similar to what you've done with less convincing lighting and extra 3D animation on top... until I got Fusion I didn't really have any software that could do more sophisticated lighting effects without a lot of work.

I'll have to find someone around here who wants to shoot a big firefight and offer my services

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