Movies: Special effects

This MGM short film highlights the work of master make-up artist William Tuttle. As the head of MGM's make-up department, Bill Tuttle has been involved in many of MGM's best known productions. He shows how they make masks of actors' faces that allows...

The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, sta...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sai Enterprise's Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san....

An office intern journeys through the bureaucratic mind of a depressed adolescense, desperately convinced that the root of the problem is somewhere hidden in the head....

Thrill to the action from a battle to the death between beautiful amazons, twisted mutants and sickening, deadly zombies sometime after WWIII as you also watch from behind the scenes as brilliant special effects are constructed by demented master cra...

During the production of my Jabba documentary short, Slimy Piece of Worm Ridden Filth, I was put in contact with Toby Philpott’s colleague and Jabba’s right hand man. Literally, his right hand man, puppeteer Dave Barclay. Dave helped us, along with T...

Bat Megmel is a girl that lives in the Magical World. One day, while practicing magic, she accidentally unleashes the demon king Atler. She must seal him again....

A failing writer loses his grip on reality as his wife grows pregnant with their child....

A poetic interlude between a reality and an abstraction, this experimental short was produced by artists from Pixar’s Effects team, working in collaboration to create a startlingly original piece of filmmaking....

A short experimental documentary exploring the insecurities of a multifaceted artist....

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Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924)....

Interview-Documentary with special effects artist Gino De Rossi on the making of "Cannibal Ferox"....

Johnny Diamonds stars in this musical adventure set in ancient mythological greece. Johnny Orpheus returns home to the peaceful village of Salamis to find that it has come upon troubled times. Assembling a crew of heroes like no other, Johnny sets s...