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”
– Instructables.com – “How to Make a Rain Machine” – Microfilmmaker has the info for this as well.
– Microfilmmaker.com – “How to Make Your Own Smoke Bombs”
– Fodey.com – “Newspaper clipping generator”
– Flashface.ctapt.de – “Ultimate flash face”
– PROPTOLOGY: The Journal of Props Professionals
– – “Papier Mache Recipes”
– Alleycatscratch.com – “Duct Tape Dummies” (this is for sewing projects but the technique could be used to make a prop dummy)
– Smoothonsecure.com – “Mold-Making”
– Australian Centre for Visual Technologies – “VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modeling from video”
– HalloweenOnlineMagazine.com – Halloween Stuff (a lot of links)
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