So, Wired has a decent article on what really happens when you get shot — summary: “bullets are magic” — but what caught my eye was the accompanying photograph:
Is that CGI? Is that even a bullet? It’s way out of focus, but it looks like a rimmed brass casing. It also looks bigger than the muzzle opening, which oddly lacks any burning gasses. The slide isn’t reciprocating, either. Oh, and there’s no finger on the trigger. Who painstakingly makes such an image?
Noticed the same things you did immediately. Where are the discharge gasses? That’s an unspent cartridge not a bullet. I’m going to read the article to see if the writer is better at reality than the illustrator.
I guess they couldn’t be bothered to Google a real picture of a real gun firing.
It looks like an empty .22 shell. Or is the end rounded rather than open? As for who makes such an image, the same type of person that makes those pictures of locked up combinations of cogs.
Thanks for the link, Chris C., that muzzle blast is more dramatic than I would have guessed.
It is not difficult to make that image. You just have to move the slider for the 3D camera focus. The materials are also not complicated, and both 3D models can be bought. All in all a competent and well-paid 3D artist could make this from scratch in a day or two.
The most charitable interpretation is that it’s supposed to be the frozen image just after the bullet has exited the chamber and proceeded past the right edge of the frame, leaving the ejected casing falling in the distance slightly off to the shooter’s left, which, by pure coincidence of forced perspective, appears to be aligned with the initial ballistic trajectory.