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Adding muzzle flashes and RPGs
Have a little Pyro work to do to a reconstruction of Vietnam era warfare. Need to add muzzle flashes from North Viet machine guns and an R.P.G (I guess I have to add the Grenade to) and from Tank (Australia defence forces) mounted machine gun.
I asked for clean smoke free plates and got LOTS of swirling smoke, I suggested they try not to fake the gun kick back unless they could time it to sound effects but they didn’t. And I asked for interactive lighting, so I could at least replicate the light effect of the flash, they didn’t do that either.
Anyway has anyone got some suggestions for these, I don’t have Reel FX flames etc.
I guess I will have to add some gun smoke and swirls, can this be done in AE? Seems like a particle effect but not particles, smoke is required.
Cheers
David Mcsween
Editor ABC Brisbane, Australia -
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David, you can download a bunch of muzzle flashes, explosions etc. for free at
https://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htmThey’re only DV quality, but some are quite usable.
If you have the budget, Trapcode’s Particular plugin does some fantastic smoke and particle stuff, really worth the investment.
You can also use CC Particle systems in AE6.5 for smoke – it’s preset based, so not perfect, but used judiciously with some blur you can get away with a fair bit.
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Wow Andrew, what a cool resource! Isn’t it nice to know that other people are endagering their lives in the pursuit of our art?
The DV doesn’t worry me too much, it just means more carefull keying.
Cheers
David Mcsween
Editor ABC Brisbane, Australia
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