Easiest way to create CGI weapons?

[Mei Lewis]

There's an episode of Film Riot might be helpul, it will at least give you the very basic of what might be involved:

 

[Martin Hong]

I am with Adrian here too. Why would you want to combine CGI weapon with real actor?

 

If you have budget problem to build a realistic model then i suggest you to forget the idea of CGI use here, it would look silly when you are doing this by yourself.

[K Borowski]

Maybe he wants to redigitally replace guns with wallkie-talkies? :unsure:

[David Gregg]

It can be done these days and there is even match moving software that will track and create a matching cgi camera. You can even track people and parts of people. However, it isn't easy, simple or cheap no matter what the tool.

 

If it is a short film and you don't have a lot of money to spend, I'd suggest thinking primarily practical props with maybe some cuts to close-ups for some CGI production value treats.

 

David Gregg