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BFX: Realistic Knife Throw Effect: Fun Cheap Video Effects:
This week Erik shows you how to create the awesome effect of throwing a knife into a person's head! This effect is used in big budget movies like the "Matrix" and we're going to show you how to do it for less then $20 dollars!
Tags : filmmaking, BFX, IndyMogul, knife, specialeffects, throw, matrix
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COOL!!!!!!!!!!! First Comment!
nice one guys!
Thanks for the help guys
Heyyyy i posted the "syringe and hose"-technique a few days ago. ;) Well, still nice episode guys.
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Jared is a hater for not letting Erik bounce one of his balls off Anne Hathaway's face. I've often dreamed of that myself.
this was awesome, nice work
that was really cool!
cool
Hope your kidneys okay erick
Nice job! Cool easy and "effective" trick!!!!
poor erick, he was allowed to trow that ball
one of the most useful episodes so far, i really could have use that earlier
Cool. I've been watching BFX for most of the year. Well done on reaching your birthday.
I'm 40 and love the stuff you're doing. Does that make me your eldest fan or perhaps the saddest?
Unfortunately you are not the oldest.
no there is an older guy on the forums
Holy cow! That was probably the best test film ever!!!!! YAY!!! I HAPPY NOW!!!!
your test films keep getting better and better.
and i think this is my favorite one ever.
great and useful episode as always.
keep it up.
Good episode!
Your show was awesome. I liked the test film you made. It will be very useful.thanks IndyMogul team.
That was really cool.
Great shortfilm!!!!! lol, I finally got on indymogul after all this time...hell yes...
Congrats on the birthday and yet another great episode.
I loved the test film, very funny. When will you guys do a short film to include your whole years fx into one lot of awesomeness?
Great effect. Sometimes the effects are just good but this one was great! What did you use to make the badges?
Ted Todd
Accounting
Sector 12
Clear to throw
BALLS
LOL!!
that was awsome. just completly awsome
do master chief costume it be awsome!!!
What is trip 2 Jersesy
great effect, brilliant test film, a better example of where that exact effect is used is in the Japanese film "Battle Royale" where Takeshi kitano (playing a teacher) throws a knife at a schoolgirl for not listening to him, oh yeah, thats badass.
sad ending
Hi there, not sure about this one, but I'd like to mention that in the matrix. *going through it frame by frame with what I can on your player (I can't be bothered to go and put the vhs tape in) but it looks as if the knife was actually allready in the head, but instead of rolling it back so that you can't see it at first, it looks as if it was edited out in post and then blurred in the shot instead.
Not entirely sure, thanks for your method though, works brilliantly.
While I'm here I want to make another knife throw request.
Theres a scene in starshiptroopers. Where sergeant Zim throws a knife at the hand of Ace. They use a cut before the knife goes in the hand, but when it cuts it's allready in there and blood squirts out of the hand. I'm not sure exactly how they did that, but they may have used a model.
Could you tell me anything more?
i think if u throw the knife in the firs shot u may notice there r 2 shots cause the knife will suddenly dissapear
who makes the blood come out of the knife????
who makes the blood come out at the end??
Hahaha, they bounce the ball off a Dundee. From the Office.
I think the effect is more realistic if you actually throw the knife in the first shot. Just make sure no one is in the way:D
Great job Erik, I think this is one of your most realistic effects. The way you edited the two shots together is flawless, well done!
hay! aint the name on your name tag the guy from the sweeny tod episode???
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m0LH6b0SLxU
waiting for birthday episode :)
continue to enjoy the show, guys.
whats next? maybe you should have an slice in the neck and blood is squirting out like a fountain. I LOVE THAT KIND OF STUFF! soi hope you can do that. for me pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssse!
ugh INDY MOGUL ugh...
:P
For some reason, this isn't loading on any computer I try it on...
By the way, can I request an effect? I need the effect as seen in the CPR skit on the Saturday Night Live yesterday... It's not really that easy to describe, but just ask someone who watched it yesterday...
Hey that was cool but in the first shot his hair is back under the cap and in the next it is in the hole watch closely any you will see. But that was very good.
Oh and i have the same mac the white macbook
hey indy mogul, great effect! i still had a few questions and was wondering if you have the details for the knife throw. i would like to do it but dont know where to buy that syringe or what kind of tubing that is or how big it is. i would really like to do this effect so please post the details! thanks! O and if its hidden somewhere i cant see, please let me know, i thought it was just in the about section.
you guy should do an entire episode using all the special effects thet you ever made
cool video guys. so many effects; so little movies
No Drugs Kids!
You can see it in the background from :32 to 1:14!
Hi guys! nice video. Can you tell me how to do fake blood?
You guys are awesome! keep it up!
almost better than mythbusters!
i don't remember that from the first matrix movie
they thorw a knife in the matrix
bounce ball dare love it i actually played it. it was real fun
do an effect to punch someones head off
you could also do this with the ninja stars from the ninja episode (duh!)