Video: Hollywood Gunshot Effect

[kipkay]

I produced a short video showing the Hollywood Gunshot Effect:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/505991/ho ... ot_effect/

[foxwood]

It seemed kind of whippy for all of the work that went into it. I prefer a guac gun but otherwise very good.

[puje]

Nicely produced, but I think you should have used more blood. You could hardly see anything.

[smokeythebear]

150 pumps are you serious!?!??!??!?!?

[MasterMike]

Reasonable practical effect, but very little payoff for a lot of effort in this case. Might just have been a bad example of the effect, but I didn't see much of a "spray" that I couldn't do more easily as a post effect. Nicely produced and easy to understand vid, however.

[Jperson]

Yah, there should have been more than double the amount of blood you put in.

[Grant]

not bad. The main thing i pick is that i can see the blood leaking through to the shirt before she is shot. The amount of blood needed is open for debate. It depends if you go for realism or hollywood

[Nba185]

Its good but thats too many pumps.

[Grant]

way too many pumps, seriously its just not energy economical. I use an air compressor which I can regulate . Surely you do not need that many pumps in such a small device! Surely a lot less pumps would create the same effect

[Zac]

that was a pretty cr** effect, bad muzzle flah too. plus pretty much everyone here knows how to do that anyway, but yeh a fairly good imformative video.
plus whats so amazing about 150 pumps? i pump mine up 200-250 times you's are just too lazy to deal with all that hard work. then again i dont really go for the spray effect but the splatter of blood out the back, and also mines a bigger pump so i get more pressure.

[maj_barnes]

Great video. Blood is too watery.

[Grant]

Zac, I dont think at 150 pumps he is lazy. I just doubt that even above 100 is needed in any case. I doubt by going 200-250 would add any real difference or justice to the effect. Those little pump kits can only hold so much pressure

[UFProductions]

All of those commercial weed-sprayers have a built of over pressure relief. If it's anything like the one that I have, anything over 15 pumps is completely irrelavent, you're simply pumping air back into the atmosphere. If you seal the over pressure valve (as I have done) you can take it up to about 30 pumps before you risk catastrophic failure.

[rhys]

Umm grant "i pump mine up 200-250 times you's are just too lazy to deal with all that hard work." he wasn't calling him lazy, he was calling smokeybear lazy

[smokeythebear]

I just have a easier system, my mentor showed me.

[Grant]

which is?

[smokeythebear]

well its this system where you get a surgial glove and some type of ring around the glove so it only expands in a certian spot then a compressor is rigged up to it so it will blow up , like a ballon getting blew up way to fast.