I Wanna Rock! This week Erik builds a fake rock that is always a useful movie prop. Rocks get thrown at Jack Black and Michael Cera in the new movie Year One, a big fake rock tragically killed Piggy in ' Lord of the Flies,' and, now, it...
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Bloody fingers and a DIY focus wheel for your camera don't usually go together, but on Your FX, it makes perfect sense. Check out these two tutorials as well as this month's mash-up of special effect clips sent in by the Indy Mogul...
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Indy Mogul and Backyard FX are two years old! We're happy to celebrate our 2 year anniversary with our favorite bloopers and, more importantly, the amazing fan videos you submitted wishing us a happy birthday and telling us your favorite BFX...
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Erik visits Synapse FX in Southern California for this edition of Hollywood FX. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how this special fx shop creates some amazing effects for independent film. They're experts of it all and show off some of the...
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Terminator or Pizza Boy? Indy Mogul has found an exclusive clip from the new Terminator Salvation movie. It's an extended clip of a Pizza Boy scene that was cut from the theatrical version. John Connor wants a pizza, and the pizza boy just...
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The Terminator Movie franchise continues with Terminator Salvation, so Backyard FX had to answer the fans with a build from the movie. This week, Erik builds a ripped-open chest that reveals a robotic endoskeleton like the one from the new trailer...
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Indy Mogul has created a special Terminator-themed Your FX this month in honor of the New Terminator Salvation film. Our first tutorial shows you how to make the inside of your arm look like it has a robotic skeleton, the second tutorial shows you...
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Star Trek's most ambitious mission yet: Find Hot Girls! Having no luck with the ladies from the future, two cadets transport back in time to impress girls from the past with their advanced technology. Unfortunately, there's already an app...
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"Beam me up BFX!" Star Trek is famous for the transporter effect and Erik shows you how to recreate it using two methods: cheap and super-cheap. You can definitely reproduce the transportation effect using fancy software programs in...
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You might have seen the leaked Wolverine Movie, but you haven't seen this bizarre behind-the-scenes footage of Hugh Jackman struggling with his performance in the new X-Men: Origins film! Apparently, the actor's song and dance impulses were...
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