Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Bikini Effects

We were very fortunate to have the help of KNB EFX GROUP and FXPerts for the warehouse section of our movie.   


KNB EFX have worked on many big budget films like 
Transformers, Grindhouse, Casino Royale and Drag Me to Hell. When our writers wrote in a decapitation scene we never expected it to stay. How were we going to do a decapitation? But again the gods decided to work things out for us. KNB EFX GROUP came to the rescue and provided us with a head mold of one of our actors plus made themselves available for the day of the shoot to rig up the head.

FXPerts made our shootout sequence more realistic by using spark and dust pellet guns.  It was actually a bit scary to have them shooting at us while we played out the scene. The sparks would fire up on the walls and floor around us. Many dust pellets hit us on the ricochet. It did not hurt but it sure made it more lively.

When it came time to deal with the acid burning effect, FXPerts John Fraizer took us upstairs and showed off a mini smoke machine we could put inside an actors costume. It really made all the difference in bringing the sequence alive. 



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