Posts tagged Fake Blood

• 28 Sep

  Episode: Backyard FX

  Fake Blood, Explosions, Harry Potter FX

  Bloody Blood Bleeding.  This episode of the viewer-submission show Your FX is full of Blood!  A Fake Blood tutorial and a Blood Squirt tutorial, as well as an awesome special effects montage featuring gunshots, explosions and Harry Potter effects. Featured filmmaking tutorials get a free Indy Mogu

• 03 Jul

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Prop Scalpel

   Even though i've covered fake stabs and cutting before, a lot of you have been requesting how to make more "medical"-based tools, and I think a good place to expand on my Syringe build from a few weeks ago would be to make one of the most basic medical tools, the Scalpel.     I think the best b

• 12 Jun

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly SPECIAL: Blood Test II: Return of the Blood Test

   Last month, I did a special on the blog called The Blood Test, well I enjoyed doing it so much, and got such a good response from it last month, that I thought I would undertake it once again, and show some of the less common (and not so uncommon) bases for fake blood i've read about. Submitted fo

• 01 May

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly SPECIAL: The Blood Test

   In my experiences talking to my fellow filmmakers, blood is by far the most common "first effect" that people usually learn how to accomplish on the screen, AND it's also one of the earliest things we taught you here on Indy Mogul. BUT, one thing we've never done is shown you alternative blood rec

• 20 Mar

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Bullet Removal

   Although one of the first effects that Erik covered was the gunshot effect all the way back from Episode 5. I realized that we'd never covered how to make a close-up bullet wound that you could show on camera. So I thought I would not only cover this, but how to make it look like you're removing a

• 23 Sep

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Acceptable.TV Tutorials: Basic Props and Costumes

  The last few weeks, i've been posting these really simple, but really awesome tutorials from the (unfortunately) cancelled VH1 show "Acceptable.TV". This time, they cover basic props and costumes, and it's really simple advice that can really make your film look a lot better without spending a lot o

• 05 Mar

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Bone Break

  Back when I did the Fake Bone tutorial, a common question I got was, "Great, but what can I do with that?" Well I am going to show you how to take the basic concepts behind foam-bones, and how to use it in a fake protruding bone, for any kind of fake compound fractures. Start with a foam tube same

• 13 Feb

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Blood Spray

  So you loved Erik's Chainsaw Arm, but you also want to know how to get a nice blood spray coming off of it when you're slicing up zombies with your handy-dandy chainsaw arm? Well fear not because I am here to show you how to get a really simple basic blood spray for almost nothing. Get a simple wate