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Emmerdale Storm - 14-Jan-2014

The storm at Emmerdale as part of the siege episode involved more than just torrential rain. 4000 Litre tip tanks were used to break through a section of walls to simulate a river breaking its banks, drains exploded and buildings flooded.   ...more

Filed under: Rain SFX,Water SFX — Darren Wallis @ 11:47 am

Morrisons - 13-May-2010

I’m sure many of you have seen the latest Morrison’s commercial showing Top Gear’s Richard Hammond pushing his shopping trolley through various  rural locations. We werent involved in every scene but the one scene we did work on is the part where he’s in the rain pulling his trolley across a cattle grid. That 10 seconds of footage took all day to film and for us, ...more

Filed under: General,Rain SFX,Random — Tags: , , , — Wayne Bennett @ 9:28 am

The dog ate my homework - 15-Apr-2010

Having just had a visit from our web designers who also do all the other “techy stuff” to make sure it appears on Google, we have been well and truly told off. Being old (that is over 40) I’m still under the misapprehension that birds tweet and the news comes from Radio 4. How wrong I am, we  need to twitter and the news comes from an app on your i-phone. Where is all this le ...more

Filed under: Fire & Smoke,General,Rain SFX,Snow SFX,Wind SFX — Tags: , , , , , — Darren Wallis @ 1:56 pm

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: , , , , — 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: , , , , , — Darren Wallis @ 10:05 am