w00t first!

btw i loved the episode and am still wondering if u wana c my fake eyeballs.

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sweet tutorial!!!

good job guys

next time explain the hitting and stuff a bit more

Quick tip deja vu...

It's Ronnie Cordova!!

That was awesome! Im gonna try some of that out in my next movie

in the video you put up the link:
www.freesound.iua.upf.edu/, but it doesn't work, i figured it has to be without the www, so just http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

greets

Great episode, i liked the test film

Why didn't you add beat up effects from your twelfth show?

OMG!!! that's the freakin sweetest fight scene ever!!! it looked really good. now i wanna make a vid w/ a fight scene in it even if it does nothing for the plot. u guys are awesome!!!

The test film had a really cool look to it. How did you achieve that?

Good stuff, but like a comment above, more detail on the "how to hit" and such, and not actually beat the hell out of each other is needed. Still, nice segment.

I don't think there is real trick to fake punches and kicks. It's all about camera angles so you can't see how far the fist is really from the face. Another trick is going it a little slower then in real life, then speeding up the footage in post.

Brendan Krick: The guys at Westhavenbrook actually edited the test film so I can't say for certain, but it looks like they increased the contrast and color saturation a lot. Giving it that cool, bad 70's movie look.

Nice one guys, great to see John and Justin on the show. What a bunch of legends!

Nice work. Time to check out all those other sites! :D

Oh man that has to be one of the better fight scenes ever. Its like watching Mortal Combat in action.

yeah, mabey you can d a weekend extra about the hitting and reactions, so i dont kill my friends making a kung fu movie hahaha,

but great job it was great

im sorry to bug u guys but
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where did they get the tonfa/kali sticks?
and how to make a katana prop

reno411 it accualy MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!!

Awesome job!

I have the same camcorder as that guy! Wooooo!

MAn!, I envy your Editing Program, You can fly With yours....:-(

very cool and very good information

They did Sock Baby? Fo real?

Hell yes they did Sockbaby. Them and Doug Tennapel. That was THE Ronny Cordova I'm fighting.

Oh and PS, we might have to do a Weekend Extra on punches and such. Stay tuned.

hey erik have you and steve and the rest of you guys over thought pf making a movie using a bunch of your FX. just for the entertainemt of your viewers. you know, just like a fun movie. o and also you guys gotta finish "Steve Nelson, the movie"

I have a challenge for Indy Mogul! I'm currently writting a script and producing/directing a movie about a virus outbreak and there is one scene I cant figure out how to do. A big car crash, its a convoy of three cars that gets attacked by a local terrorist cell. I really need some help, advice even. Please!

Haha a three car pile-up? That's quite a challenge. I wonder if it can be done for under $10......hmmmmm.

This episode is cool, because it involves fighting and it's free. And those are two topics in which I give my full support to.

With camera movement and changing angles, its important to find the right balance. If your camera just sits still, the action is often less interesting (unless your dealing with large scale fights). However, if your camera moves and changes angles, or distance to much, the fight becomes difficult to follow and equally uninteresting.

Its important to find the right balance. I'm afraid your test film didn't

P.S. that superhero costume doesn't look very good.

Patrick, you are a dick. These guys are awesome and are just trying to help. You do something similar to what theyve acheived and then you can bag them, untill then chill out and enjoy the cheap but QUALITY backyard fx.

the test film was amazing keep it up

hey steve and macevoyproductions. you might be anble to do a pile-up with miniatures. ger toy cars. smash 'em with a hammer, and film in front of a green screen. then when you get the scene done. put like a highway or watever you were gonna put in the background

That's an awesome idea punkandska66, if you can work on that and send in a how-to video, that would be PRIME Indy Mogul EXTRA material!

Hey! I love BFX and i was just wondering if in the next episode you could make fat suits. That would be really cool. I'm trying to incorperate and army of fat people into my movie, but I don't have that many fat friends.I'm on a low budget and i need your help. Thank you!

Fat suit huh? That is a good idea. We might have to do an episode about that.

You two guys are bad ass... I loved Sock Baby... Some really funny shite, you foolish honkeys!

umm... this is a great episode but i really do want to see the miniature episode!

thanks steve, you know i really would love to dothat but i use imovie and windows movie maker. so i cant do green screen or anything "cool" for that matter, but im glad you liked it anyways. ( but i am saving up for final cut)

nice vid guys

check out my fake eye effect at this url
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VpEnex2pSQ

hey punkandska66

you can do gs with wmm u just hav 2 download the attachment file

super director, where do i get the atachment file, from microsoft.com. and does is cost $

this is the url to a guy's tutorial on usin chroma key and wmm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78_GEx9Fhs
hope it helps.

heey i wondred if you kan make fake eyeballs

A great website to get sounds from is www.sounddogs.com/
it says u have to log in or make an account
DON'T
just right click on the sound you want and "Save Target As" and you will then have an MP3 of the sound.
Cool, Try it

try it if u want but the site says hacker safe so it may have some program which will find out who you are or something.
USE AT OWN RISK

I think this is my favorite episode yet. I'm gonna' try this!

ErikBeck can fly!!!!!

Interesting video on fighting....very informative...but I think a weekend EXTRA on selling your punches and kicks (similar to that of theatre performance) would be even more helpful because essentially even if you through in the best sound effects and have the best cam operator, if the viewer sees you miss your punch....you look like a highschool "just for fun" video.

Steve First Off Nice Use of the word prime, 2 Model Cars Wouls work better I'm willing to bet, with the right paint you can make a pile of sh^& look like gold!

Hey Erik, I was wondering if you could do an episode on either CAR CHASES or A GIANT but CLAUSTROPHOBIC CAVE (like from the Descent)

or maybe you could do both episodes!!

but i'd rather see the car chase episode. that should be a slight challenge for you?

Super Director, just make a ball of mashed potatoes, cut it in half, hollow out eatch half slightly, fill with fake blood, stick em back together and pour a little ink on for pupils!

now i have a reason to love mondays ... i love this effing show!!!

best episode ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! super yeehar i can watch this so many times

the counting thing was used by bruce cambal in "ARMY OF DARKNESS" when he fights the stop-motion "deadites".

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Trebor: Also Jason and the Argonauts when they fought skeletons.

Spicysmoke I'm afraid you're the dick. I'm giving constructive criticism in response to an episode which has some recommendations I don't agree with.

I actually don't need to make a better fight scene in order to critique the one they produced here. I've seen better fight scenes and I can pick out what makes them better, then share that with others.

Great Episode. Still waiting for the how to make realistic looking fake horns though

Wow that was pretty good. I am in Tang Soo Do and thought that you guys would give dumb advice (no offfence), but I am amazed you didn't just rely on what you already knew you actually went and found what you where looking for and it actually wasn't corny. NICE WORK!

I was just involved with a film where I did some stunt fighting about a week ago, so I figure I'll share a few things from my experience...

A few people have asked about how to "sell" the impact. It really isn't magic. When somebody hits you, figure out where they hit you, and how your body would move as a result. Never throw unchoreographed punches in a fight scene, so you should never have to think about where to go when you get hit. One helpful tip is to have a monitor on set/location so that the performers can see how they look on it. If they can see their own motion, they will be able to quickly try a few variations and see what looks best. Another important thing is that your hand should really be at least six inches from the other guys head. Consequently, be careful with your lighting scheme, as some shadows will make it obvious that you aren't as close as it should look.

All the stunt work I didon this recent project was with a group of henchmen attacking a main character, so it was a little bit different from the one on one fighting shown here. One other thing we did differently was that instead of calling "1 2 3 4" for the moves, we called "punch" or "kick" when we attacked the main character. Either probably works for helping everybody keep track and know where they should be in the choreography, best bet would be to discuss with the talent to see which method of calling moves they find more valuable/safer.

As for the guy asking about car crashes and terrorist attacks... Well, there are a lot of potential ways to approach it depending on how much work you want to do, and what you know best. Thebest bet may be to take a Hitchcock like approach and avoid showing anything that is unnecessary. The imagination is quite good at visual effects work. For example, I might consider doing something like having a series of shots showing the terrorists lining up, and getting ready to start the attack, intercutting with the people in the convoy, and the lover of the guy in the convoy as she looks over the city or whatever. Then, in an interior shot of the front car in the convoy, and for a few frames you see the missile streaking toward the car. (Either a prop shot on green screen or a CG missile, source doesn't really matter - whichever you are more familiar working with) and then you cut away to your shot of the extra character looking over the city as she sees a plume of smoke rise over some buildings. Smoke can, like the missile be either comped pyro, or a CG particle system. You'll need to do some compositing for what I suggest, but not a lot. And, probably not as much as if you tried to really show the cars being hit, and all sorts of fighting, etc.

Im making a short soon but for it i really need a cheap lightsaber handle

Nice!


No drugs damn it!

Very cool, what an ouch factor!

reel big fish?

get AWSOME sound effects at www.soundsnap.com they are awsome

lol. Erik got pwned.

I think for Episode 31 you how to make fak bone breaking effects with your leg bending in the wrong direction and and everything. Backyard FX is the most awesome show ever ever and I think it would be really cool for you to put this in your show.

Why wont the sound link work?

hey somewhere in february geuss what! im goiNg to show you how to really fight WITH flips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA MUA HA HA HA

that is awesome and funny!

that was really fucking awesome

'Hang together there Cordova, it's just a two-ton chum chum." Loved these guys ever since I saw sockbaby way back when. Really great episode, love to see them return for another episode (they have so many great effects in their videos).

Really cool