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A Mogul's Born Every Minute

POSTED BY , 08 May 2007

Welcome to the first network for the YouTube generation! Who are we? Well maybe we can answer that by saying who you are. You’re someone who wants to do more with their camera than just shoot home movies. You're an Indy Mogul.

Our premiere show here is “Backyard FX,” coming to you every Monday and hosted by zero-budget wizard Erik Beck. Erik shows you how to create special effects the fun and cheap way, and then subjects his siblings, roommates, and puppets to his creations. Each week he takes challenges and suggestions from you, the viewer, and gets those latent creative juices flowing fast and free without making your wallet sweat.

No matter what level you're at you can become a part of Indy Mogul. Send us your comments, upload your footage, an original special effect, or simply record your thoughts on a webcam. Whatever it is, we want to see it, hear it, and put it on the site! We even have a monthly episode dedicated to content our fellow creators have submitted

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WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING

"i just want to thank you for the zombie effects video. I'm a film student from Australia and i'm making a silly comedy about zombies and video games, we pass our course judging by how good our films are. i thought i would have a kick look on youtube at one of my subscribed directors and on the home page was your zombie effects vid. its going to help me ALOT and i've got a pretty minimal budget!"

"i am a good computer graphics special effects artist, i believe, but u have opened up a whole room of effects for me to use in my latest feature length film, which is gonna be on a budget of £1000. thank you for telling us how to make all this cool stuff"

"I just wanted to send a great big thank you to you and your crew for putting together one of the most helpful sites I've seen in a long while. You're all very friendly, fun and very informed about creating affordable effects...man, I would have loved something like this back when I was young! :) When we have our mentor weekends I plan on bringing the laptop and exposing our younger directors to your site. I'm sure they will find it as wonderful as us old filmies do. :)"

 

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Comments

  • mcgarry1 wrote on July 24, 1:30 am

    Hey, Indy Mogul. I am making a short contruction/craftsman video that goes wrong. I need your help on an effect that involves a nail going through a hand. A fake hand would be good, but I want the actor to be hold his own hand up with a nail stuck throught the palm. please help.

  • sk8ersean10 wrote on July 23, 11:49 pm

    hay indy can u help me i need a Fish-Eye lens for my camrabut i can`t seem to find one for my camra its a didgital camra

  • sk8ersean10 wrote on July 23, 11:44 pm

    hay indy i was wondering if you could help me i am making a video of hide and seek my acker has to hide behind of somthing that he can`t really hide behind but he can like a light poll but i don`t know how to make that effect can u teach me how

  • Evalationfilms wrote on July 23, 10:14 pm

    hey indy mogul can you help me make a machine gun arm prop

  • StinkyCheeseMan wrote on July 23, 9:47 pm

    Hey Indy Mogul, i was wondering...you know your how to make a stop-motion puppet episode, well i tried the refrigerator magnet for the head, and apparently the magnet wasn't all that magnetic, so...do you have any ideas that could replace that as a head for a stop-motion puppet?

  • dg95 wrote on July 21, 9:12 pm

    hey guys i wanted to know how to make a cool prop sword your first ones were cool but they werent like durable enough i 'm looking for something like aluminum or something dont wanna be a burden but if you could make an episode of bfx remaking the ninja sword HIYA!!!!!

  • Lou (guest) wrote on July 21, 8:16 pm

    I just came upon your guys site. I've been lurking around the forums and will probably join someday. do you guys still use your myspace page? Ive sent friend request! why won't you answer?!? damn yous myspace! damn yous!!!

  • Runar G wrote on July 21, 3:11 pm

    hey eric now i have a really really good idea maybe you can do a big rig tutorial then i can do giant its ok if the head is not big

  • blood stain wrote on July 16, 5:59 pm

    plz teach me how to make a white makeup cream please email me b_godwin11@yahoo.com

  • blood stain wrote on July 16, 5:32 pm

    i think you should redo the scene from alien were the alien pops out of a human exept make the blood darker have blood fly on walls

  • blood stain wrote in reply on July 16, 5:36 pm

    except with guts you showed us how to make

  • chrisfilmvideos wrote on July 15, 2:09 am

    you should do something on how to do the wolverine claws effects from X men

  • Eron Bigo (guest) wrote on July 14, 1:48 am

    Hey, i think someones already suggested this, but could you make a gattling gun like in the movie predator, it doesn't have to spin around, although that would be cool, thanks in advance.
    CYA

  • Chucks McCork wrote on July 10, 2:54 am

    hey indy mogul, could you do an episode on the acid melted hand from the movie "The Fly". or the ear cuting scene from "Reservoir Dogs".

  • JuiceJuice (guest) wrote on July 10, 1:24 am

    heres my test:

    build a full costume fully out of cardboared, for less than 10$




    PS: wait and see my youtube videos coming out on juicejuice

  • Runar G wrote on July 7, 4:20 pm

    can you do cheaper bazooka weapon

  • Runar G wrote on July 7, 4:17 pm

    erik can you build mace of sauron its giant mace im searching for it but cant find it i just found a little statue of mace of sauron but maybe you can do that bigger

  • Runar G wrote on July 7, 4:15 pm

    erik can you do somthing like arows hit a body i got the blood but i need like arrows hit a body and still there

  • Runar G wrote on July 3, 11:43 am

    hey i have a idea what about tutorial how to do relastic bones becuse in my movie when one of the good guys see a cave when they go into the cave they see lots of human bones then they meet a big cave troll

  • Runar G wrote on July 3, 10:28 am

    jaide860 just let you know mac computer is the best (for me)

  • Runar G wrote on July 3, 10:24 am

    but the giant stone golem costume i need it its the only i want becuse in youtube i saw this costume i search evrywhere but its possible to build that costume if you want to see that costume read on youtube stone golem costume

  • Runar G wrote on July 3, 10:22 am

    caleb wants spiderman stuff and me too but i have a idea maybe tutorial of a squizzy spider weeb

  • Runar G wrote on July 3, 10:20 am

    boobyz have a good idead i like it to

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 7:25 pm

    matthew cost if your the guy who is in matthew vs noah movies im just saying its cool videos if your not the matthew that im talking about its ok

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 7:21 pm

    indymogul when can you do a real movie in an 1 time or somthing just asking becuse your so good at filming FX

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 7:10 pm

    wow im talking so much about weapons

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:36 pm

    JUST LET YOU KNOW INDYMOGUL IS WITH THE BEST IDEAS WHEN I SAW IT FIRST IT LET MY DO MORE COOL FX MOVIES

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:31 pm

    and i think i need some big giant hand tutorial when in the TROLL movie one of the guys will rip the hand of one of the TROLLS

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:29 pm

    my Troll movie Part 3 will come on youtube when im ready with all my tools to see all Troll Part movies you just read RGBRYN TO SE IT but i think you cannot understand what we are saying but we are from america or somthing but if you want to see it just read RGBRYN and im using FXHOME, IMOVIE, ALAMDV2PLUGINS, AND ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS.

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:24 pm

    please i want it so much if you cant do this thing its ok but i like tutorial to do big Troll doll foot when some giant are crushing hes enemy with hes foot and then the enemy came with a knife and stap it in the giant foot maybe you know what i mean but im not want tutorial with all giants body just the foot becuse the camera will just turn to the foot when the foot crushing the enemy

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:18 pm

    a beast costume i have a werewolf mask and i need some beast costume but you dont have to do this if you dont want

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:16 pm

    new idea vampire or orc theath

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:15 pm

    hey why not do some giant maces or club like in the movie Felowship of the ring when sauron use his big mace to slash hes enemys

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 4:12 pm

    i like angels why not do angel wings or somthing

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 3:08 pm

    Please please i need tutorial with a big giant stone golem costume i saw it in youtube and its possible you just read stone golem costume in youtube i must have stone golem costume its for my giant Troll movie

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 3:03 pm

    i know warrior sheild or some other sheild or a big giant sheild

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 2:59 pm

    just a idea umm... pirate cannon in a sea ship

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 2:55 pm

    Maybe Bazooka

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 2:53 pm

    im just new here those who build cartoon weapons thats amazing

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 2:49 pm

    what about UFO spaceship

  • Runar G wrote on July 2, 2:43 pm

    why not try do warrior armor tutorial that loks cool im doing a Troll movie in the movie im using greenscreen to make a giant and there is no armor for the heroes to fight that troll giants

  • Sam (guest) wrote on June 30, 10:50 pm

    This guy is the Alton Brown of Film making :D

  • vacum-palooza (guest) wrote on June 27, 9:21 pm

    Can you do a headshot effect for my action movie. Arsenal Stronghold. This one terrorist gets sniped in the head. I know how to make the blood come out of the back of the head, tape the gunshot rig to the back of the head, but how can i do the front? Please help me I'm filming next Friday so i need it kinda quick.

  • Cpsuperbrain (guest) wrote on June 27, 10:44 am

    I still don't Know how to get the blood effect?

  • Geotis wrote on June 26, 12:12 pm

    So, when are you going to release a DVD with all your videos?

  • ribboyz (guest) wrote on June 23, 8:43 pm

    check out our channel on youtube called deucedeuce619.thanks