DIY Filmmaking: Make Your Own Props & Special FX – Part 2 “GUTS” (metaphorically speaking) |

DIY Filmmaking: Make Your Own Props & Special FX – Part 2 “GUTS” (metaphorically speaking)

February 19, 2008 on 11:42 pm | In DIY, General Resources, Pre-Production, Production |

In Part 1 (DIY Filmmaking: Make Your Own Props & Special FX - “BLOOD”), I listed several great resources for making your own “blood” related props and special effects. Now in Part 2 - the “Guts” covers several more great links. I used “guts” as a metaphor to describe all the internal building blocks that go into making movie props and special effects.

To be honest, the word “guts” just works well for a two part series: “Blood” & “Guts.”

We’ll start with a good segue to the “blood” post:

FAKE DEAD GUYS

A mixture of links from Halloween enthusiasts and filmmakers are comprised in this list.

- MicroFilmmaker.com - “Build a Dead Guy for Horror Films”

- StickTowhatYouKnow.com - “Making A Dead Guy 101″

- HalloweenOnlineMagazine.com - “Making A Corpse”

- I MakeProjects.com - “Charred Corpse”

And one of the signature DIY sites has its own contributions:

- Instructables.com - “Making a Dead Guy 101,” “BFX: How to Make a Fake Brain,” “How to Make Fake Heads,” “How to Make a Fake Hand”

DIY COSTUMES

- Costume.org - “How To’s”

- Studio Creations.com - “…tips and tricks that go into making professional style costumes and props that are used in the Hollywood Movies”

- DIY Life.com - “Costumes”

- Milieux.com - “Costume Resource Links”

- Costumepage.org - “The Costume Page (a lot of links)”

- Clara.net - “The Dyeing Guide,” “The Arming Coat,” “Dress Making Guide”

PROP WEAPONS

- Instructables.com c/o Indymogul.com - “How-to-Build-a-Big-F%40%25king-Gun”

- The DIY Guide to LRP (Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram) - “Sword Making Guide”

- Rmcybernetics.com - “A Hand Held Tesla Coil Battery Powered ‘Plasma Gun” (not exactly a movie prop but may be useful to someone - very cool nonetheless)

- Toyarcenal.com - “Toy Gun Replicas” (Not a DIY project but can be useful)

- Blueskeltonproductions.blogspot.com, c/o IndyMogul.com - “Flamethrower Prop (Nonfunctional)”

- Deathlord.net - “$20 Air Cannon” (sound fx)

- Detonationfilms.com - “Thunder pipe” (sound fx)

STAR WARS RELATED

- Apocalyptic Productions - “Light Sabers”

- TK409.com - “Do-It-Yourself Star Wars Props”

- C3PObuilders - “More Star Wars Stuff”

- Tk560.com - “Build your own prop replicas”

MISCELLANEOUS PROP LINKS

- “Snow Machine” and “Fake sugar glass molding” - Indy Mogul

- Stormforcepictures.com - “Make Fake Glass a.k.a. Sugar Glass”