Posted on December 12, 2011 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
Erik Beck from Indy Mogul shows you how to recreate some of the classic practical special effect from “First Blood,” where Rambo sews up his own arm wound.
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Posted on August 16, 2011 in Production Design | No Comments
Do you need some money? Do you need A LOT of money? How about a briefcase FULL of prop movie cash to enhance your crime film or action-thriller? Indy Mogul is here to show you how to make some amazing looking screen ready movie cash.
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Posted on July 18, 2011 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
Zack from Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX shows you how to create a gory scene where someone gets their throat cut open and blood pours out, for about $50-60 bucks.
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Posted on May 12, 2011 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
Zack from Indy Mogul shows you how to make one of cinema’s most iconic toys, the Mattel Hoverboard from Back to the Future 2.
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Posted on May 3, 2011 in Effects and Stunts, Makeup | 3 Comments
Here’s how you can make a pregnancy belly that won’t result in 18 years of financially crippling child support payments.
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Posted on May 15, 2009 in Cinematography | 3 Comments
IndyMogul shows you how to build a Camera Crane that anyone can afford in this DIY video.
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Posted on May 7, 2009 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
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 practical method used in the [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2009 in Costume Design | 2 Comments
Erik from indymogul shows you how to make Wolverine Claws from the new movie X-Men Origins for under $30.
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Posted on March 3, 2009 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
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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!
Posted on December 28, 2008 in Cinematography | 2 Comments
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 can shoot above the action. [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 in Costume Design | 1 Comment
Indy Mogul shows you how to make a futurist set of space armor just like Master Chief wears in Halo 3.
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Posted on October 6, 2008 in Costume Design | 2 Comments
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.
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Posted on September 22, 2008 in Green Screen | No Comments
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 old Indy Mogul sentiment of [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 in Green Screen | No Comments
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 after YOU!”>Indie Mogul shows you [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 in Effects and Stunts | No Comments
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 better leave a comment and [...]
