Wesley Scoggins
Indy Mogul
Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Bullet Removal
Although one of the first effects that Erik covered was the gunshot effect all the way back from Episode 5. I realized that we'd never covered how to make a close-up bullet wound that you could show on camera. So I thought I would not only cover this, but how to make it look like you're removing a bullet from the wound too.
Start out with the area where you want to make the wound. I am using my arm simply because it's the easiest part of my body to make a photo of, but the same techniques i'm going to use are applicable practically anywhere on your body.
I layed down a thin layer of cream make-up to assist in blending later on.
I just layed down an oval of liquid latex, let it dry, then layed down another layer. You want it kind of thick because of what you're going to be doing later in the application.
Poke a hole in the center, and start teasing it up, similar to my Burn Make-up effect I did last year. But take some cotton (or bits of toliet paper) and stuff them in around the edges to make it all bulge out.
Now, mix up some flesh colored make-up and start blending it in, to make the wound totally flesh colored.
Now, around the edges of the wound, start building up darker colors, like purples, reds, browns, and blacks. See the earlier Bruises and Beat-up effects Episode that Erik did for a more indepth tutorial on how to make realistic skin damage.
After you're done blending and you're happy with how it looks, darken the inside of wound with some black and dark red make-up.
Now, just add some fake blood, and the illusion is just about complete. Now for the bullet..
All I did was take a little piece of clay, shape it into a vague bullet shape...
Then I just slapped it with my hand, to get it to accordian down into a wad that looks kind of like a squashed slug after it's hit something.
Now, I just took some brass paint and painted the slug.
Now, just take the slug, and shove it underneath the lip of the wound, and cover with more fake blood.
And you can just reach in with some tweezers and pull it out from the wound.
If you're willing to do some life-casting, you could stuff the bullet even deeper into a fake body part, and with some clever editing back and forth make it look VERY realistic.
30 Comments
Add a Comment