Comments on: What Really Happens When You Get Shot

By: Handle

Handle — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:00:48 +0000

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.

By: LL

LL — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:55:44 +0000

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.

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:41:16 +0000

Thanks for the link, Chris C., that muzzle blast is more dramatic than I would have guessed.

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:36:59 +0000

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.

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:08:01 +0000

I guess they couldn't be bothered to Google a real picture of a real gun firing.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:49:34 +0000

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.