How to FakeMatrix-Style Bullet-Time Effects Without a Hollywood Budget

Five months ago , the Russian / Ukrainian musical mathematical group 5’Nizzareleased a music video for their track , Samoliot , featuring a series of mishaps that were apparently frozen in sentence . But while the action mechanism was paused , the artists themselves continued to sing as the tv camera moved around them . It was a cagy take on the bullet - time effect made popular in The Matrix , andwe finally know how they created it .

The optic effects artists responsible for the bullet - time issue seen in The Matrix used a combining of multi - tv camera arrays , digital compositing , and computer - generate characters to gain the celluloid ’s iconic action scenes — which take a Hollywood - sized budget . DirectorMax Ksjondacame up with a loud feeler for theSamoliotmusic video;hanging the performers and props in mid - airusing ropes and stands , and then filming them against a gullible screen with a easy - moving camera .

There was still some post - production oeuvre needed to wipe off all of the supports afterwards , and to replace the green background . But that ’s something a talented teenager could extract off using a transcript of Adobe After Effects or Black Magic Design ’s Fusion .