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Props & SFX

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Jun 15, 2010

If you want to have a character get attacked by a predatory land animal in your movie, you are probably going to need to put some claw marks on their body to make it look realistic and visceral. This ...

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Jun 15, 2010

There are a lot of videos out there that offer instructions for creating all sorts of fake wounds. Most of them, however, focus on cuts and gashes rather than that other devious and action-packed type ...

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Jun 15, 2010

Alright, so you have some fake blood, and you want to use it in your movie. Unless you are showing a wound after it has happened, and if you want to do anything depicting people getting shot, you are ...

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Jun 15, 2010

Realistic fake blood is hard to come by, unless you plan on spending tons of money ordering it from a prop company. Make it yourself! This video features step-by-step instructions for making fake bloo ...

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Jun 15, 2010

Head wounds are among the very worse types of wound, and as a results are very fun and popular subjects for representation in film. This video will teach you how to create an open gash wound on the he ...

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Jun 15, 2010

There are a lot of ways to hurt people, and almost as many ways to make them look like they've been hurt without doing any damage. This video is about the latter. It will teach you how to create some ...

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Jun 15, 2010

Creating fake wounds on the human body is one of the most fun parts of being an amateur or professional makeup artist, and whether your clients are you friends on Halloween or Brad Pitt. This video wi ...

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Jun 14, 2010

Via Motionographer:"Ben West wrote, directed and did the animation for this warming mockumentary promoting the 2008 Australian Directors Guild Conference. Ben's witty script, combined with a bit of Ch ...

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Jun 10, 2010

In this video, learn how to make a gross, bloody flesh wound using cinema makeup effects. This wound is perfect for zombies, their victims or anyone else who may be missing a bit of flesh. Whether you ...

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Jun 8, 2010

Night vision goggles are one of the iconic pieces of equipment of the modern military. Getting a real pair is prohibitively expensive, especially if you just want to use it as a prop in your film inst ...