We can make this look a lot more natural with a technique I described in my After Effects – Natural Lighting VFX Using Mattes tutorial: by creating a matte layer. It’s not bad, but I personally find that using a simple overlay layer to simulate the muzzle flash light sits very unnaturally on top of our footage rather than in the scene. Once you’re done, your shot should look something like this: We can simulate this by applying some masks and cutting out only the areas that would directly be hit by the light. If there was a real muzzle flash in the scene, only the elements facing the front of the gun would be lit. Just putting a solid layer over everything does look pretty crappy. Set it to a colour that is very similar to the muzzle flash and change the blend mode to additive. Next, add another solid colour layer to simulate the light emitting from the muzzle flash. Here’s a useful link to free stock footage from detonation films.Īnyways, take and position a muzzle flash element on top of your base footage. However, you can also find free action stock footage just by searching on google :)
It’s filled with pre keyed stock footage and I use it almost daily.
#Rebaslight muzzle flash effect 720p
I really love the Action Esssentials 2 package from VideoCopilot and for $99 for the 720p version, I highly recommend it. The first thing I add is the actual muzzle flash effect. Of course, these are not hard set rules so experiment if something doesn’t seem to fit right – to me, that is always the most fun part anyways :) To create this effect, you will have to composite a number of layers.
And this video will show you how :) Compositing the layers for a realistic muzzle flash It is really not hard to add a few layers onto your scene to create great looking gun fire. I see way too many badly done muzzle flash effects on YouTube to not want to do this basic Visual Effects 101 tutorial.
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