His results are good, see his Chrono Trigger: Short Action Scene(recommended by Andrew Kramer). Realistic Muzzle Flare Tutorial and Realistic Gun Props from Freddie Wong have good general advice along the lines of Maschwitz and Christiansen. You can find numerous free gun sounds of uncertain quality around the net, for example at.
Later, Footage Crate posted more free ones, then Premium Beat added those and a few others to their mini-roundup.įilm Riot has a ton of quality sound effects for gunfire for sale.
Among other resources, Sebastian Ganschow posted free flashes, and VidMuze has Muzzle Flashes Pack ($9, pictured), Gun Sound Effects Packs ($5 each), and Gun Shell Ejection Kit Freebie + Tutorial. While we’re on the subject of elements, Forging Fire posted about free stock footage from Detonation Films in Free Explosions – Fire – Missile – Decapitation Footage see also free stuff from Footage Crate. Video Copilot is also giving away some elements in Free 12-Gauge Shell, Here’s a sample tutorial: There’s a useful if less pleasant excerpt available at Peachpit, Pyrotechnics: Creating Fire, Explosions, and Energy Phenomena in After Effects.Īndrew Kramer has several tutorials on muzzle flashes and more, for free and as a part of the Video Copilot stock/training DVD Action Essentials 2. In another essential book, Adobe After Effects CS6 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques, Mark Christiansen provides an overview of guns effects. This is all rigged up with expressions so all you have to do is position a gun layer in After Effects 3D space and dial in the velocity, wind, and other settings.” Plus, there’s a full 3D particle system for the emission of spent shells. You have sliders to control the color, brightness, and heat distortion effects. “All you have to do is paint some soft blobs in the rough areas where you want a muzzle flash and the comp does the rest. Here’s a few resources to help you put together something believable.įake gun guru Stu Maschwitz seems to have started a craze with an in-depth discussion of guns in DV Rebel’s Guide, which also included a “monster” After Effects template project. Muzzle flashes by themselves are useless - you need the flash, smoke, a shell, a gun, bullet hits, audio, and more. Muzzle flashes and other gun effects have been popular topics.
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