Breakaway Bottle Video
with Steve Biggs

Now you can make your own breakaway bottles like the ones used in fight scenes in movies. Professionally made breakaway bottles can cost $40 or more, but with the right know-how and materials you can make your own at much less. This video shows how to make the basic two-part silicone mold needed to cast the bottle. It demonstrates the materials needed and pouring technique. The craft is a fine art and practice is required, but good to excellent bottles can be made for a fraction of the cost of Hollywood bottles.

Skins! For Dummies and Other Props

with Steve Biggs 

Want to make fake body parts and don't where to begin? This video explores five of the best options and demonstrates them side by side so that you can make a decision before you waste money on a mold that won't work. Materials shown are Silicone, PVC (Hot Pour), Gelatin, Wax, and Slip Latex. Foam latex is compared, but not demonstrated. Shows you how to fill skins with polyurethane foam and how to foam-in a simple wire armature. Intrinsic coloring is shown for each material. Use of the Hair Punching tool is demonstrated. Does not demonstrate sculpting, life-casting, or the construction of silicone or plaster molds. Experience in mold making and life-casting are prerequisites to these techniques.

Character Teeth Workshop

This video is in response to numerous requests for a video that would show people how to make their own dental prosthetics. Nothing completes costume and makeup like a well-made set of fake choppers. Thom's technique is simple and easy to follow and reveals several great little trade secrets. 30 mins.

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Creative Creature Painting

with Brian Penikas

Features Hollywood airbrush and painting technique exclusive to the entertainment industry as taught by Brian Penikas. Learn basic airbrush setup and painting, how to make your own PAX paint. Learn surface prep, basing, detail and shadow as well as mottling, washes and stippling. Excellent "How to." Approximately 28 minutes.

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Basic Pneumatics

with Steve Biggs

Pneumatics has several advantages over electric motors including safety, more power in a smaller package and ease of control. This video explains in simple terms the advantages of pneumatic systems. It demonstrates the difference between pneumatics and hydraulics. Covers important safety information. Explains the difference between linear and rotary actuators. Shows you how to connect and adjust pneumatic systems. Demonstrates manual versus electric control. Shows you how to plumb and adjust flow controls. Explains in plain English how to specify control valves and how they work. Shows how to layout a typical linear cylinder for design purposes. This video will give you the confidence you need to safely work with pneumatic devices of any size. Includes a two minute clip of amusement park style pneumatic animation. 1999, 28 mins., DVD.

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Simple Special Effects

with Steve Biggs

Features nearly 40 easy-to-do special effects including makeup effects, gel effects, A+B blood, gushing blood, simple latex appliances, flowing blood from a knife, bullet hit with a blow-tube, Goo effects, vampire tooth caps, realistic compound fracture with flowing blood and more. Excellent for those who want to construct their own realistic effects. Great for young film makers, mock-disaster training and haunted houses. Tape 1 in the SES series.

Advanced Appliance Makeup with Gelatin

with Brian Penikas

New gelatin appliance technique is taking Hollywood by storm! Don't confuse this with burn and scare makeup, this is serious character transformation using sculpting and mold techniques much like hot foam. Gelatin is easy to make and apply. Features the translucency of silicone without the hassle. This video is about 28 minutes long.

Magic Molding and Casting

with Steve Biggs

First section of this video demonstrates face-casting with alginate and the making of a UltraCal30 master of a person's face. Other topics include; Plaster waste mold, Simple plaster mold, Latex mold, and a demonstration of vacuum forming. Demonstrates casting of slip latex (Halloween Mask type technique). Great starting point for people without any previous mold experience. Please Note: The original description of this video included silicone technique, after shooting we discovered enough material for two videos. Tape 2 in the SES series.

[JACKET PHOTO] 1997, 48 min. DVD

Silicone Mold Making

with Steve Biggs

Covers Simple Silicone molding technique. Video demonstrates one-part silicone mold and two-part silicone molding techniques. Demonstrates casting of liquid plastic compound and PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride). Excellent starting point for people who have projects they want to reproduce and sell. The only video that teaches silicone molding techniques. Tape 3 in the SES series.

[JACKET PHOTO] 1997, 35 min. DVD

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