ENDA Episode 189→ The time when ENDA gets in a bullet fight with John Wick (Part 9)

The promised part about smoke is here!

I know we’ve been talking a lot about smoke in this project, but that’s to be expected in a muzzle-fire shot.

To begin with, when a bullet hits a metallic surface, it creates sparks due to the heat and impact. However, there’s another secondary effect: residual smoke.

When sparks are generated, a small amount of smoke appears as well, caused by the intense heat the metal is being subjected to.

As we can see in the video below, this smoke is less dense than the others and is concentrated only around the impact area. Just like the rest of the smoke elements, it disappears quickly.

Nonetheless, it still requires the same treatment as any other smoke footage: careful placement, colour matching with the environment, controlling its density with masks, and so on.

With the addition of this smoke, our muzzle fire now feels far more believable, and the integration is almost complete.

So… what if we watched the whole process from start to finish?

That, however, will be for another episode.

So, stay tuned!

The journey continues…