Make sure and watch this episode as we tackle another heavily requested effect...making someone look blown in half! Jam packed with cheap special effects, frisbee fun and a Test Film guest directed by Maniacal Rage!

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Hey everyone, welcome to BFX, the wacky podcast that shows you how to make your own special effects for cheap. How do we get our ideas? By taking requests from you and this week you want to get blown in half. Oh, come on, that does not even make sense! Erick Beck is a trained professional who knows the tools he’s using. You could easily explode, dismember. Or KILL yourself while attempting to recreate these projects. IF YOU MISUNDERSTOOD AND OR DO NOT FOLLOW OUR INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY. If you do not know what you are doing find someone that does to help you out, and if you are under 18 get the supervision of an adult. Be as safe as you are creative, and enjoy the show! This week’s project was requested by six of our loyal Indymogullers, Roarzness, The-next-tarantino, Shield Jaguar, Cityscape Pictures, Esai93, and Mindbleed. All want to know how to make a person looked blown, ripped or eaten in a half. If we had a big Hollywood budget we could use fancy computer graphics or borrow a body from one of those 15 CSI shows. CSI New Jersey, CSI Saskatchewan, CSI Sacramento, that one sucks. But like most of you, we have a limited budget, yours is limited by your bank account and ours is limited by a puppet who spins a money wheel. That is just normal, right? Shopping list: 8 x 4 sheet of thin melamine or other cheap wood, three 8-foot lengths of 1 x 3s, toilet paper, fake blood fixings, card board, two matching old shirts, old news paper, and liquid latex. Advertisement: Jeremiah Bobblecorn: But “Radioactive Capitalist” from Mars was definitely my biggest production today. Male1: The girl, or the money? Female: Help me! Male2: It is good the Beatles, money cannot buy me love. J. Bobblecorn: I mean I know I am the greatest film maker in the world. I am always learning from every ups of IndyMogul. But I can make a movie about whatever I want on a shoestring budget and nobody can take that away from me except for many the government. Here is the park where I show you how to build stuff, super time lapse! The first step is to build a simple platform to hide your actors lower half. Cut the melamine into two sections that are roughly 3 x 4 feet. Now reinforce your platform with 1 x 3s and add legs to raise the platform about one foot. Set these two pieces next to each other then sketched out a waist size hole like so then cut it out. Paint or cover your platform with whatever will match your shooting location. You could use carpet, linoleum or tape and black paint like we did. To create the gory stump, take a piece of cardboard and cut out another waist shaped oval. Hack glue on some foam to the edges of this and then hack glue everything into the shirt. Half-hazzardly cut your shirt, so it overhangs a few inches of the cardboard stump. Next, cut a hole in the back of your shirt right behind the stump and stuff in some wrinkled newspaper. Apply lumpy flesh using toilet paper and liquid latex. The severed spine is just two plastic lids glued together. Add a dark red paint job and you are almost done. Using the same liquid latex, toilet paper, and pain, I made some fleshy chunks. When you get on location, have your actor put on the stump shirt, close up the platform around him, tape up the seams and apply blood liberally. Okay, a couple of quick notes in this build. If you got a place where you can dig a hole and bury the lower half of your actor’s body like a beach or a field, you can literally cut this project’s cost i half. If you got some more money, you can make the lower half of our stand dummy, add some gory at the top, place it in the scene and it will enhance it. Test film: Erick: Hey, what are you doing in this roof? Male: Just reading, what’s up? Erick: I was just going to place some frisbee. Male: Jesus! Would you get that thing away from me! Those are really dangerous. Erick: Why? It is just a Frisbee. Male: I have heard horrible stories about those Frisbees before. Erick: It is a plastic disc. People have been doing this since caveman times, totally safe. Male: I will be honest with you, I am scared to death right now, okay. But I trust you, so I really want to, I will play with you. Erick: Okay, this is super easy alright. I am going to throw it to you like this, you are going to catch it with your hands, like this. Got it, it is simple. Male: Yes, I think so. Oh my God! Are you sure about this? Erick: Seriously, this is a toy. This is the safest thing we can be doing on this roof right now. Male: Okay. Erick: Okay, here we go. Male: Oh, my God! Erick: Oh, my God, I swear this has never happened before. Male: How bad is it? How bad does it look from there? Erick: It is not sort of bad, it is cool. Male: It feels pretty bad, I will be honest. Male1: Yo, frisbee! Erick: Uhhh, okay, just going to drive home now. Big things to manicalragepodcast.com for guest directing this week’s test film. You can see more of their crazy antiques right here. And remember if you want Indy Mogul to keep bringing you free entertainment, you got to subscribe. Somewhere on this page there is a button that says subscribe, press it. I am serious or Justin will give you a free Ipod. Maybe he will, no I will not. Viewer Quick Tips: Luke: Adding background to your theatre could make more jobs. You can download free Lupin music from www.flashkit.com.