DIY $25 Camera Crane or Turbo Mini Jib
IndyMogul shows you how to build a Camera Crane that anyone can afford in this DIY video.
DIY Star Trek Transporter Effect
From indymogul - Star Trek is famous for the transporter effect and Erik from Indy Mogul shows you how to recreate it using two methods: cheap and super-cheap. You can definitely reproduce the transportation effect using fancy software programs in post-production, but in true DIY fashion, Erik utilizes the […]
DIY Wolverine Claws
Erik from indymogul shows you how to make Wolverine Claws from the new movie X-Men Origins for under $30.
Shot in the Head, Costumes, and Gus with SpatCave
From: indymogul
SpatCave Studios builds amazing gun replicas, inventive creature costumes, and owns an impressive collection of original movie props that would make any fanboy jealous. Erik and Indy Mogul explore the SpatCave workshop for this episode of Hollywood FX and Erik learns how to blow his own brains out!
How to make a DIY Cable-Cam for Cheap
In this video by Backyard FX, Erik and the crew build a Cable-Cam to achieve awesome cinematic camera angles like fly-thru and overhead shots. The Cable-Cam is like a camera dolly, but instead of being on a track, the camera is in the air on cables or rope, so you […]
Halo Armor - DIY Master Chief
Indy Mogul shows you how to make a futurist set of space armor just like Master Chief wears in Halo 3.
Gatling Gun Arm Costume
Indymogul shows you how to replace your best friend’s arm with a motorized gatling gun! Make a cool movie or the best Halloween costume in town! All for less then $35 dollars.
Drawless Animation: 4 Minute Film School
From: indymogul - “Drawless Animation!?! Dat don’t make sense!!” - said the hapless yokel. But Rob Shrab, today’s guest professor, proves otherwise. He proves that Drawless Animation is quite possibly the coolest form of video around today; combining cardboard, greenscreen, people, and toys…all with a little hot glue…and that […]
Crawl through a TV like in “The Ring”
Erik from Indy Mogul shows you how to recreate the effect of someone crawling out of a TV. Just like in that scary movie The Ring. And by the way, if you’re reading this and you don’t click the play button we’ll send that creepy dead girl from the movie […]
Indiana Jones Face Melt Effect
Author (indymogul) Notes:
Welcome to part one of our two part Indiana Jones Special. This week we’ve been challenged by Eric Zala the director of “Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation” to create an awesome face melt effect for cheap! This is probably Indy Mogul’s grossest effect yet so you […]













