Last set of effects for a while, and a recap of all the ones we've learned so far. Green Screen (Chroma Key) next - so you can put yourself into other videos! - wheeee! :-)

Bullet goes through fruits, water bottle, ets. Pretty cool when you see the effects in slow motion.

Animation, Titleing and Special Effects demonstration reel

An evil warrior has stolen a hot young woman's video project... can the ninja rescue it?

We made a few video clips in my home town, and I finally got the time to put a few of them together. Not really any relation to each other. Just a few test shots.

SCARY FILMS ~ Katie Melua. Live O2 arena. Early Classic Horror & 'B' films. *Note. terrifying Special Effects !!!

Replace your green screen in the video and create a special effect. You can record your video in front of a green screen and than replace the green screen with such a background image that you look like   more...a giant and even the biggest of buildings go dwarf in front of you.  less

Part one of my character project for my level one special effects degree. Origionally she had a dynamic face, which allowed her to sing and blink, but after i lost one of the mechanisms time was too short   more...to make it again so she has her static face. Hope you enjoy her, and she raises a smile. Part two, can be seen in my pictures, he doesnt move so there was no point videoing him.  less

A famed director has a hard time dealing with reality.

I went to the lake over the weekend and saw this cool flood light under the water at night. I'm working with new editing software, Magix, and just wanted to play around with something interesting and   more...try out the special effects in the program.  less

Jericho features hot babes, dudes blowing up stuff, and now trains behind the scene. Pretty cool stuff....

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This is just a slow motion of 1/18 scale automobile crashes. Pretty cool, Yeah I get bored in the winter

me singing lol and playing with webcammax i had to remake this, the previous video was messing up.

Watch video blog #6 on Special Effects for The Water Horse: Legend of The Deep - In Theaters 12.25.07 (In Theaters Christmas Day)

Visit the official site at http://www.TheWaterHorse.com

Jay Russell and   more...Charlie Lyons discuss the visual effects created by WETA in this behind the scenes video blog for The Water Horse: Legend of The Deep  less

Behind the Scenes - After creating this swan suit for a Poland Beer commercial, we had to try it on to see how it works. Call us at 805-527-6200 if you want one for your next project.

This animatronic tortoise was created by Animal Makers, Inc for a Jeep commercial as well as a Pepsi commercial. You can see the full commercials at http://videogallery.animalmakers.com. Give us a call   more...at 805-527-6200 if you want one for your next project.  less

Egyptian bear doing cool tricks with a stick! This is for real and no trickery or special effects!

This is Me, just experimenting with a special effect in one of my Video Editors. The words I am saying are not important, they are from a long Monologue in which I play this character, but when I added   more...the special effect, the scene took on a whole new Meaning! LOL  less

What do you think?
Sounds messy?
Or should I do 16 screens next time?

Sometimes local filmmakers approach me to do some animation or special effects on their projects. 'American Alien" is available for viewing online, or as a download, but there are some DVD's in   more...existence and I designed and animated the menus. That's me as the astronaut and the dancing alien.

The "Disney dust" transformations I did for the "conscience" in "Punk James" was supposed to be for a "remastered" DVD edition of that movie. The fate of that project is still undetermined, but you may recognize Robert Anderson from the "Filming the Flea Prople" documentary on my channel.

The THIRD movie(Title withheld) was a disatrous project that I wound up being cajoled into by a friend of a friend, and when the filmmaker heard I was an animator and effects guy, he wanted me to create an elaborate delusional confrontation between "God" and "Satan". For the weeks I worked on that project with NO pay whatsoever, The Director/writer/star decided to cut out most of my animation in favor of more closeups of himself in a self-indulgent exercise in cinematic narcissism that was already a paean to close-ups of the Director/writer/star. Anyway, MY edit of the scene, with all the animation intact, you will only see here. Also, as usual, I became the default voices of the two animated entities.

Photoshop was used predominantly across all three projects.  less

quick fx's test for my new movie.

I was just playin’ around with my iMovie special effects, so here’s the result . . . the original video is some camcorder footage I took from my hotel balcony in Waikiki, Hawaii of a fireworks display   more...one night.

The song is “Revolution” by the Beatles, which brings back vivid memories of me havin’ to worry about bein’ drafted to fight in VietNam. The year I COULD have been drafted, my particular draft number came within five numbers of the final draft number called up for military duty that year.  less

i tried to do some simple effect and it's pretty crappy but amusing at the same time. then i tried to put it onto the windows movie editor thing and put a title and a credit to it...but i dont know how   more...to save. arg. i'll get it.  less