The Quicksilver Special Effects Blog

Week ending 3/4/09 - 30-Mar-2009

The Bookies Fire episode for Corrie is being aired this week and we’re all looking forward to seeing the final cut. The scenes involving our effects were filmed over 4 days about a month ago. Some great pictures and footage were available on ITV.com prior to the episode being aired which was good. I was interviewed at one point so that might end up on ITV’s website. ...more

Filed under: Explosion SFX,Fire & Smoke,General,Random — Tags: Coronation Street, Corrie, Man United, special effects, Virgin Trains — Wayne Bennett @ 11:04 am

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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