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Create a realistic looking Jupiter with a jar, milk, dish soap, and food coloring.
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Get mesmerized with giant bubble reflections.
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Create a realistic looking Jupiter with a jar, milk, dish soap, and food coloring.
Use some prop-building expertise to build this cool modified surge protector.
Get mesmerized with giant bubble reflections.
With styrofoam and the right lighting, this massive prop can be recreated anywhere.
Creating eerie sci-fi lighting with a new DJI Phantom drone.
The wonders of angular momentum!
A split focus diopter is an unique way to achieve the illusion of deep focus.
With the right camera and perfect timing, these water illusions appear out of thin air.
We've done the lightsaber video, now let's tackle the sound.
Go back in time to 1977 and learn how the lightsaber was first created.
Learn how to create a water vortex.
We recreate the classic effect from the 1994 film, Stargate.
Follow-up to our "Creating Dry Ice Comets" episode.
A main ingredient to a comets core is dry ice.
If it has wheels, there's a pretty good chance I'm going try and make a dolly out of it.
We attempt to create the Aurora Borealis with a sheet of fabric and a handful of fans.
I attempt to make planets with food coloring , milk, and dish soap.
After finding this skeleton animation I had a few ideas...
Watch us try and recreate a shot of the Millennium Falcon.
An in-depth look at Creating the Cosmos.
Watch us rebuild the INTERSTELLAR black hole.
Our third installment brings everything together in post-production.
In our second Back to the Future installment, we tackle Forced Perspective.
I recreate effects from Back to the Future in this three-part series.
Why do the people with the high speed Phantom camera get to have all the fun?
I've always incorporated flashlights in my lighting arsenal.
The Thrift Shop can be a magical place.
SCI-FLY the sci-fi short film is the inspiration behind this web series.
I replace the burning steel wool with LED lights to create a similar warp speed effect.
A sand picture consists of two panes of glass glued together creating an air tight seal.
Bubbles act like a prism, reflecting the basic colors of the Cosmos.
Create majestic star-fields with a flashlight, paper towel, and a plate of glass.
I try and create a Bungee Gimbal Stabilizer mount for my car.
I had an itch to rent a drone for a few days, here's what I learned.
Holograms are indeed the future, so why not try and make some!
Some quick hints to make your editing station and project workflow run more efficiently.
We attempt to recreate the "proton streams" made famous in the film Ghostbusters.
Check out some of our odd but effective techniques we use to make our films!
Some highlights of the hit Webby Award winning series, Shanks FX.
3D scanning & printing are used to emulate one of the most iconic statuettes of our time.
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Create Halloween ghost-like trails with the compound known as fluorescien.