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In response to
"So some people on Twitter are saying all movie and TV guns should be CGI. Makes sense to me. -- nm"
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marum scarum
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Making CGI guns is really demanding, you need to track hands and to an insane amount of rotoscoping since hands go behind objects all the time -- (edited)
Posted by
Guigue (aka Guigue)
Oct 22 '21, 08:43
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Sure they can do it on some budget movies and when Spielberg decides that police officers in the 80's didn't use guns, but doing a firefight with fake guns is impossible without a gigantic budget.
There's discussion further down about faking recoil on a prop gun, but you'd still have to find a way to do that in CGI since the hand and the arm also reacts to recoil. It would mean far fewer guns in movies and TV shows (which may not be a bad thing, but that's a different subject).
I've worked on projects with fake guns that didn't use blank guns, the actor had to fake shooting themselves. On the early shots, they invariably yell "pow!" without even realizing it. It's pretty hilarious
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