Remember that Bulletstorm “Bulletpoints” promo video with Cliff Bleszinski, where he goes “Grandpa always told me that I can do anything if I set my mind to it, so I made a game where you can blow up a man’s asshole”?
Yeah. That’s not ALL you can do that man’s bodypart.
The average male human body contains just over 5 liters of blood. Judging from how much of it squirts from the characters in Bulletstorm, you’d imagine they have at least three times as much.
So yeah, blood. Much like explosions, blood is also a case where an extreme exaggeration of what would actually happen in real life is often done, and even recommendable… after all, this is Bulletstorm, and we’re going for maximum visual impact here!
So when it comes to blood effects, we have a lot of them. Seriously… A LOT… of them.
Most things do not explode. For example, you can shoot a car, but it won’t explode. Electronic equipment doesn’t blow up as well. But that’s “boring” real life. In game development we tend to go in the opposite direction, and that’s a good thing.
Shooting a gun. An experience loved by some, hated by others. During development of Bulletstorm we went to a shooting range and tried out plenty of weaponry. And you know what? WORST. SPECIAL. EFFECTS. EVER.
SSSWWWOOOOOOOSSSHHHHH BOOOOOOOOOM!
Hi there! My name is Jose Teixeira, and I’m a special effects artist at People Can Fly. Usually the goal of a SFX artist is to make very realistic lifelike effects, that most people won’t even notice are there. Working in Bulletstorm, however… the goal is not the same.
