The Director had already shot his Zombie footage using a handheld camera and asked us to add a few puffs of smoke to give the impression of bullets hitting the wall. We offered to take this concept a little further and create the illusion of the Zombie's arm being ripped off by a bullet.

In order to achieve this we stabilised the handheld camera movement, tracked the actress's arm (without the benefit of tracking markers) and then removed it from the shot, adding a new background plate where necessary. We also digitally replaced parts of the body that the arm had originally obscurred as the actress moved, such as the waist area of her jeans and shirt.

We then added the blood spraying from the wound onto the floor and also created blood stains in the holes in her clothing.

Finally we reintroduced the handheld camera movement.

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