If you're making a cheap horror movie, you're gonna need fake blood, and lots of it! In this video, you'll learn how to make a liter of fake blood. And the supplies are everyday household supplies, costing less than a dollar!
Kids... it's dance time! Check out this dance video tutorial on how to do the Miley Cyrus Hoedown Throwdown dance. This dance is from the Hannah Montana movie from 2009 where Miley Cyrus performs the Hoedown Throwdown in Tennessee.
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Michael Park shows you how to recreate the opening gun barrel sequence from the two newest James Bond movies in 3d Studio Max using the default scanline renderer, minimal modeling, and only standard materials.
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to build songs in GarageBand '09.
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to mix songs in GarageBand '09.
You can scare the hell out of your friends with the neat trick, or you can use it in your next horror-filled independent movie, to scare the hell out of your viewers. Watch this prank video tutorial to learn how to embed floss into your neck.
Imagine that every time you print a document, it automatically includes a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and, potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from a spy movie, right?
This tutorial will show you how I created my own original Terminator costume from scratch and a modest budget. All the materials used are easy to find items sold at your local Hallowe'en or theatrical costume store.
Bethany's back and she has a pretty amazing tutorial for us this time! Learn how to create X-Men Wolverine inspired eye makeup. This is a pretty awesome interpretation. Nothing's cooler than X-Men, so try out this Wolverine look for a costume party, next Halloween, or just a crazy night out on the town.
It's time for Halloween, maybe it's time for your ultimate independent horror movie you've been dying to make, whatever the case may be, you're going to need some blood, you're going to need some weapons... you're going to need a bloody knife wound.
Bethany's back and she has a pretty amazing tutorial for us this time! Learn how to create X-Men Storm inspired eye makeup. This is a pretty awesome interpretation. Nothing's cooler than X-Men, so try out this Storm look for a costume party, next Halloween, or just a crazy night out on the town.
In general, no one actually WANTS a black eye. But if you're filming a movie, in a play, or just want to freak out your mom and dad or friends, it's nice to know how to "put on" a fake one.
Learn how to make your own pair of fireproof gloves for magic tricks or movie special FX. Fireproof gloves let you cover your hands with flammable butane & play with fire like never before. They will not damage or incinerate your hands because they are constructed of several layers.
Digital projectors can be prohibitively expensive, particularly for those who stand to benefit the most from their use—that is, young people who prefer watch television and movies on their home computers. No longer. This hacker's how-to demonstrates how to make a simple digital video projector out of an old LCD flatscreen monitor and a slide, or overhead, projector. For detailed, step-by-step instructions on fabricating your own LCD/overhead digital projector on the cheap, take a look!
When you upload your videos onto YouTube, you will need to have your video in wide screen format, if you want to avoid having black bars on either side of your video. In order to do that, with Sony Movie Studio, you will need to go to "project". Click on "properties".
In this video the instructor shows how to make a simple flash click-through photo gallery with Action Script 3. First the instructor shows a sample gallery that you can make using this tutorial. To do this open a new flash action script 3.0 file. The first thing you have to do now is, in the right hand side change the document size to 750 by 500 pixels and give it a dark back ground color like dark gray. Now open the image that you want to use in this album by dragging them on to your flash w...
This video is about sliding an object from left to right in Flash. We will be creating a simple, core animation in Flash. First, let's import an image to our scene. Place it here. Now, let's convert our image into a movie clip. Change the frames per second value. Now, go to the frame and enter the key frame. Bring the image here. Let's rotate our image a little bit using the free transform tool. That will give more dynamic animation. Go to frame 30 and hit F6. Now, we need to add motion. Chan...
One of iCloud's most exciting features is automatic download. It means that when you download something from the App Store on one device, it downloads onto all of your devices. No more going back and forth between iPad and iPhone, all of your music, movies, and ebooks in the same place.
How would you like to be able to watch all of the movies and television shows available on the Netflix watch instantly service on your HD2 Android phone? Check out this video to learn how to download the Netflix app.
Inspired by the movie "The Black Swan" this tutorial shows how to combine classic romantic looks with a gothic sensibility to create a dramatic prima ballerina style. Follow this how-to and you'll be sure to dazzle with heart-breaking elegance next time you're out on the town.
Google SketchUp is a free 3-D drafting program that can be quite useful for film makers. Use Google SketchUp to create models of your sets so you can pick the absolute best angles when shooting the scenes for your next film.
In this clip, you'll learn how to add transitions when editing video in Microsoft Movie Maker on a desktop or laptop computer running the MS Windows Vista operating system. For more information, including a complete demonstration of the process and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this home-computing how-to.
Add a rollover and rollout effect your movie clips created in Adobe Flash CS3. This tutorial shows you the process to add in an extra level of interactivity to your projects created using Flash. Achieve this effect by using the Tweener Class.
So now that you've finished editing your movie together, it's time to put a sound track together for it. One option is creating a soundtrack in Garageband. In this video you will learn how to export your film from iMovie in the correct format, start up Garageband and insert it into the right type of session in Garageband to start creating your soundtrack for your film.
Nero 7 is software program that will let you create your own movies on DVD, and this video shows you how. You can even set up your own template for a menu screen. You can even alter the resolution or format when you burn your DVD.
Maybe it's just us, but this city reminds us a lot of the dreamscape Parisian city from Cristopher Nolan's mind heist movie "Inception," aside from the whole city folding back over itself thing and whatnot.
In this video from Creative Tips, you will get expert advice on how to set up a basic stereo system in your home. Nathan will walk you through all the steps and make sure that music and movies flow through your home in perfect pitch.
World of Warcraft, or Wow as it is affectionately known, is the most popular MMORPG of all time. In the wake of all of this popularity, WoW characters have become a popular subject for machinima, movies made within video games. This video will teach you, the budding machinima filmmaker, to use a piece of software called WoW Modelviewer with Adobe After Effects to incorporate your favorite WoW characters into a video.
Realistic fake blood is hard to come by, unless you plan on spending tons of money ordering it from a prop company. Make it yourself! This video features step-by-step instructions for making fake blood at home out of simple ingredients, with a blender being the only tool required. This way, you won't need to resort to drawing it from a real human.
Check out this video from Chemical Reaction Tutorials (CRTutorials). If you love filmmaking, prop making, editing and everything else that goes along with making movies, then you'll want to see what Adam has to say about hand effects.
Check out this video from Chemical Reaction Tutorials (CRTutorials). If you love filmmaking, prop making, editing and everything else that goes along with making movies, then you'll want to see what Adam has to say about axes.
Check out this video from Chemical Reaction Tutorials (CRTutorials). If you love filmmaking, prop making, editing and everything else that goes along with making movies, then you'll want to see what Adam has to say about cloning.
This makeup look imitates the makeup from Lady Marmalade of Christina Aguilera. This is the theme song of the movie Moulin Rouge.
This guy does an awkward job of showing you how to set up two prussiks to ascend a rope. However you can take what you need to the climbing gym and have some thing to practice. Remember you have to practice this stuff a bit at least. Out on a glacier it is no longer crevasse rescue practice it's just crevasse rescue. So check out this climbing tutorial video and practice your safety techniques and learn how to self rescue from a crevasse using two Prussiks.
Here is the Pool Hall Junkies trick shot. If anyone saw this movie, they were out the next day attempting this pool shot, but nobody could do it. This video tutorial will show you how to do the Pool Hall Junkies rail trick shot with ease. A four-year-old could do it.
If you like the movie The Hustler, you've probably tried all of the tricks so you can be a pool shark too, but you can't seem to get the frozen rail shot. If you have seen this before, it's a 99.9 percent chance it was not a legal shot. This one is! Watch this video tutorial to see how to do the frozen rail shot trick from The Hustler.
This is an easy, up close, demonstration of yet another way to unravel your knitting when you make a mistake. By Judy Graham, Knitter to the Stars, who's knits have appeared in movies, TV, and concerts for over 30 years and who has been hand knitting for over 50 years. Watch this video knitting tutorial and pick up another simple way to unravel yarn to fix a knitting mistake.
Bill Myers shows you how to use Auto Ripple to automatically adjust all audio/video elements when you modify a video.
See how to quickly grab a snapshot or photo of any video frame in Sony Vegas or Sony Movie Studio with just one mouse click - Bill Myers shows you how.
This tutorial video guide will give you a $40 step by step instructions to make a camera dolly that produces a professional effect. a dolly helps make a smooth, gliding shot that will make your audience feel much more enveloped in the movie.
