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Season 1, Episode 7: Action Miniatures: Fast and Furious
Original Air Date—1994

Season 1, Episode 6: Ride Films: Riding the Movies
Original Air Date—1994

Season 1, Episode 5: Forced Perspective: Eye of the Beholder
Original Air Date—1994

Season 1, Episode 4: Miniature Pyrotechnics: Baby Blasts
Original Air Date—1994

Season 1, Episode 3: Creature Articulation: The Art of Imitation
Original Air Date—1994

Season 1, Episode 2: Optical Effects: Optical Illusions
Original Air Date—1994

Season 1, Episode 1: Creature Makeup: Masks and Mirrors
Original Air Date—1994

This episode concentrates on the use of prosthetic makeup and sleight of hand to create creatures for the silver screen.

For anyone interested I have updated my review of Mozy.

I found a critical flaw in the system and cancelled my subscription.

Anyone can plan. Good improvisation is true genius.

That is brilliant.

"Best Friend Prime Minister".

Can't beat a good Coalition Government to mix things up!

Very nice work. As Ornsack said one of the best bits of work from one of our visitors. When I started this forum I always new some people would end up becoming professionals while the rest of us either gave up or carried on running around with camcorders. Good to see it finally happening. Just need ...

Vodafone are having stock issues at the moment so I've got to just wait and hope. T-mobile had some amazing deals on the Desire last week but they have just jacked their prices up. They were doing it for £10 a month with £160 for the phone. Over 24 months that beat every offer going ... but now its ...

I am currently awaiting delivery of an HTC Desire.

It is possibly the first serious competition for the iphone.

Anyone already got one?

Pyrotechnics were part of the plan, just didn't get around to trying anything.

Also I only had so many tanks so didn't want to destroy any of them in the first five minutes!

I've just finished uploading my photo collection. 30Gb.

My first PC had a 500Mb hard drive and that was plenty!

Just found this on the BBC Site :

ScriptSmart

Script Smart is a set of Microsoft Word templates to help writers format their scripts using industry standards.

I recently decided to tidy up my video camcorder magnetic tape collection. I created some templates so I could print out cardboard inserts for the tape boxes.

Full details here

The templates are in Microsoft Word and Open Office Draw format.

Ashes To Ashes is back soon! 2nd April 2010.



It's time to fire up the Quattro ...

I've switched to using Audacity for all my sound editing needs. It's does almost everything you want to do with sound files and its completely free!

I'm using it at the moment to convert some audio tapes to mp3. A complete set of Story Teller audio books if anyone wanted to know!

I decided to try an online backup service to ensure I always had an uptodate copy of my photos. I tried Carbonite but had a few problems. Currently I am using Mozy and so far so good. I'm halfway through uploading my photos. It takes a while but once they are all up there I will only need to upload ...

Here are my thoughts ... There are a number of things "backing" up needs to do : 1) Protect from file corruption 2) Protect from accidental deletion 3) Protect from hardware failure 4) Protect from theft 5) Protect from your house burning to the ground or other acts of God Any solution tha...

I was using a blue screen so no real clash in term of colour ... I just couldn't remove all the blue without starting to lose parts of the tank. The barrel and aerials were the worst bits. There just didn't seem to be a sharp enough edge to work with. I knew I couldn't do 'real' so I decided to go '...

The original (and very vague) concept was that it was the battle for the last refinery on Earth. Who was fighting who wasn't something I had decided

Haven't seen Moon yet but it's on my list.

This post is 3 years old but ...

The easiest way to run Apache, PHP and mySQL on your local PC is to use xampp.

I use this to test and develop my websites. I used it to upgrade the forum to phpBB3.

Here is a list of external Sound Effect libraries you might find useful. Mods can add additional links as required. http://www.freespecialeffects.co.uk http://www.freesound.org - The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, ...