also i follow a zombie makeup law from the movie dawn of the dead (2001)
zombies have three stages of looks:
stage 1
zombie has just been bitten. discouloratin of the bite wound (usually a large chunk has been taken out) and usually a few cuts and abrasions with discoulouration and very mottled and crusty looking blood (cause remember, it's a zombie, no actual blood flow)
(also if the zombie became a zombie while one was feeding on it, then more flesh wounds (bites) and cuts (large nail scrapings) dripping with gore and blood)
stage 2
zombie has many large gory looking cuts and abrasions. lots of discouloured skin and gross out effects around bite wound (now larger). possibly missing limbs or they are dripping with blood, or are spilling guts
stage 3
zombie has started to decay. mottled rotting skin around any unnafected flesh. heavy decay around all wounds which are now larger and darker. possibly grey discoulored flesh and many dark veins on unnafected skin.
it also helps to know a little bit more about zombie physiology so look for a book called The Zombie Survival Guide, which is a fiction book that discusses the physiology and makeup of your average virally infected zombie typically from dawn of the dead (even though it is only a fiction book which i nearly ended up beleiving
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and i'm also looking for any basic blood gush effects, such as for sword slicing (yes, i do own a katana) or any bladed wepon in praticular (since i live in canada eh? guns are illegal to own in my city. plus the fact that my family doesn't have any wepons so to speak....)
and mabey burned flesh.
i think one of my freinds is going to animate a light saber into the movie.
oh and for anyone who wants to see a really good movie. there is one on filecabi.net, just serch for gore and look for baghead. a ten minute short of compiled gore effects worthy of the gods! enjoy!