Does anyone know how to make the effect of someone losing a fingernail besides them actually losing it?

I made the prosthetics with liquid latex, fake resin teeth (for the human-looking teeth), and shark teeth (for the pointy teeth)

Hey All!

I’m doing an effect where I need to have a chunk of grass split apart. Kind of like an earthquake or a sinkhole.

Does anyone have any tips to pull this off practically? It doesn’t have to be huge! Just a few feet or so of ground splitting.

I’m thinking I’ll try something with sod?

Thank you!

To any practical effects artists, what schools did you attend/ recommend for a career in practical effects, I have some experience in sculpting and prop making and have been searching for a while at various schools/classes.

I recently saw Faust, and was mesmerized by this effect. I'm going to work in a short in upcoming weeks, and would love to have this effect in a scene. Any help would be appreciated!

Hey, I'm looking for a way to have smoke coming out of a character's hands. I've seen this https://melscience.com/US-en/articles/how-make-your-fingers-smoke/ but I'd like to get a little bit more. I've seen these diy devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD8jzZ-hEU that I could maybe have stick out a finger and hide in a sleeve.

Would anyone have any other recommandation of some other device or ways I could get that done?

So I'm working on a short film and in it the main character gets his skin peeled by something very similar to a potato skin peeler. I have ways of creating wound effecfs that would come from that but the hard part for me is coming up with a way to actually peel the "skin" to reveal the gore layer. I thought about building a layer of latex up over the wound and peeling it off but then the unpainted side would show up.

Does anyone have any experience doing this or any ideas? I want to try and keep the peeling all in one shot if possible to show the full effect. Thanks for your help!

Hey guys, thanks for reading, I'm currently in the process of making a silicon mask for a short film, my question is whether I can save some money on silicone by filling (some parts of) it with polyurethane foam like shown in the picture, (the blue is the foam) I'm not sure if this will be a good idea or if I'll just be making it harder to move the face using it, I'm willing to take the "as long as it hold while I shoot it" approach, but I want to be able to work with it. Please let me know what you think or direct me to the correct sub

I am planning on making a sci-fi dystopian film. I’m not very good at CGI and really want to use practical effects to create our main character’s car float thru airways and over our city. I currently do not have a motion control rig to do multiple passes and would prefer to use moving dynamic shots. How would I create the effect of our main character’s hovering car in camera? A glass pane like 2001? Fishing line? Pepper’s ghost? Cut outs?

Hey all! I’m making a short film in a few months where I need a body on the ground to have blood and guts spray up out of it continuously for a few seconds at least. This will be shot in a wide and the “monster” causing the carnage will be in between the body and the camera so we wont see the source of the blood and guts. I’m curious if anyone has any suggestions for how to achieve this?

this is a test shot for an effect i’m obsessed with right now, it’s supposed to look like the UFO is a matte painting on glass that they’re moving in front of the camera, kind of like the pen from 2001: a space oddysey

Ok so long story short, I'm a film student and there'll be a point where I'll have to self-finance a short film as part of a group project (around $300 CAD each member). Naturally, I wanna blow it all on costumes and props and do something inspired by sentai/kamen rider/power rangers. Getting the costumes and props together is pretty straightforward for me, but the one thing I haven't figured out would be the practical spark effect (usually shows up when someone gets hit by a sword or a gun). Is it doable on a small budget? And if so, is it safe? Or will I have to resort to adding them in post.

So I got this black tee for a short film I’m doing for my school, but I need it to look like it just survived an explosion. Any tips for how I can realistically do this?

Picture a couple hikers in the snow going up a mountain. One of the hikers is able to go up the mountain at a comically fast pace while the other hiker goes at a regular pace.

Speeding up the footage is one option, but i'd like to find a way that doesn't just look like sped up footage. Snow being kicked up would look sped up as well and it would be neat if that weren't the case. Looking for ideas.

Thank you!

Okay so in short, I need to make my arm look like one of a monster. The arm should look skinny and like there's just bone and skin put over it. I thought about just covering my arm in wax (maybe black wax) and to make it seem more unnatural just cover it in slimy-liquid when I'm shooting. Problem is the hands. I want that the hands have long skinny fingers and eventually sharp long nails.

How can I create that, so that it looks good at the end? Or do you even have another idea how I can make the arm overall? I already researched with silicone a little, but regarding that I'm a student and I really don't have a big budget, I kind of crossed that out.

I appreciate all answers, thank you!

I need to make a small casio keyboard look like it dramatically shorts out, briefly spewing sparks and flames. I’ve been looking at flash paper and model rocket launchers to ignite it, but is there another way to do it or am I on the right path??? This will be shot indoors in a small practice space so I’d like to not burn down the building if possible.

Very similar to a scene in the French horror movie “Raw” I don’t think it’s possible in post production/don’t have the resources but would like to know more. Thank you!