The Quicksilver Special Effects Blog

A rainy day - 13-Aug-2009

As I suspect with most other eager youngsters my view of special effects involved lots of setting fire to things or blowing them up or both. However, in reality for every caravan you blow up there are days and days of making it rain – it isn’t glamerous and you don’t get much of a smile from the crew. In fact there is a lot of water on TV that isn’t all that it seems ...more

Filed under: Mechanical SFX,Rain SFX,Random — Tags: BBC, Cutting It, ITV, Rain, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 6:10 pm

Is there anybody out there? - 9-Jul-2009

When we started to put this site together the web designers stressed the importance of the blog – these days you’re nobody if your not twittering, blogging or on face-book, but is anybody reading it? Clearly there is as I have had lots of feedback from well meaning potential customers offering to replace my Rolex (they must be confused as it my Plastic Casio that needs a new strap) ...more

Filed under: General,Rain SFX,Random — Tags: Add new tag, Asda, Nike, Pataks, Rain, Virgin Trains — Darren Wallis @ 10:05 am

No Goldfish were harmed in the making of this production - 23-Apr-2009

It is a couple of years since we were involved in producing a comedy pilot for Granada TV with comedian Justin Edwards AKA Jeremy Lion, Children’s Entertainer, but the memories are as clear as if it were yesterday. Picture, if you can, a large (in fact very large) feathered pantomime goose, strapped to the roof of a Hillman Imp -if you are old enough to remember how implausibly small they ...more

Filed under: Fire & Smoke,Mechanical SFX,Random — Tags: Chocolate eggs, Granada TV, Jeremy Lion, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 9:52 am

Vidic, Berbatov & the Christie Bear - 2-Apr-2009

Anybody in business will be familiar with receiving requests for help from charities and being involved in Mountain Rescue (www.kmrt.org.uk) I also see the other side – we are currently trying to raise £25,000 to expand our current team headquarters. However the phone call on the morning in question came from one of the local hospitals, The Christie ...more

Filed under: Explosion SFX,fireworks — Tags: Add new tag, explosives, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team, Man United — Darren Wallis @ 2:56 pm

Ice Station Zebra - 10-Feb-2009

Writing the blog is now an excuse to avoid a trip to “Ice Station Zebra”, as our unit is lovingly known, due to our inability to use gas heaters where explosives are kept. However “I” do need to start prep work for two projects coming up in the next few weeks and a thousand litres of black goo needs making and testing – we have ...more

Filed under: General,Snow SFX — Tags: black goo, explosives, ice station zebra, snow, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 11:38 am

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