Sunday, late night, outside our workshop, Anders (Gothenburg Prop Makers) shot the final scene for KMFDM - Amnesia music video:
The great car explosion (it's Anders old VW Transporter) at the end of the video was made by David Peter at Thunder Effects.
Here you can see how it looked like from my point of view:
More old material 🙂
2009 I attended a supplementary course in special effects at PYRO Smålands Krutbruk AB.
We learned how to blow up and flip a car using petrol charges and zinkit + flash powder loaded in a pyretechnic piston that was placed in the ground, partially covered with soil, under the car.
We also blew up a set house with 5g cordtex, flash cracker cal. 21, a pyrotechnic dirt canon, and a petrol charge. Continue reading
Putting up some old material!
I made the pyrotechnic special effects in this trailer for GFS open set 2010.
Open set changed name to GoKinema the following year.
Check out the open set films at Gothenburgs Film Studios vimeo channel!
I don't remember exactly how we got to the point where we came up with the idea to make it into a modular platform, but it had something to do with the ATtiny4313 I think, sounded like a good idea to make it more versatile!
Why stop at making a wireless firing system, right?! 😉
The firing system was originally designed for squibs (SFX body hits), so it's very important that the size is as small as possible to be easily concealed under the actor's clothes.
At first we were stuck with the idea of a wireless firing system, but when we found the ATtiny4313 with "a lot" more memory (4K instead of 2K) than the ATtiny2313, we started to fantasize about what could be done with all that space!
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Här kommer en annan video som jag varit med och gjort pyro i.
Det var lite trial and error under den inspelningen, men nu vet jag vilket vattendjup som är bra och att man måste ha en Continue reading
Här är några stillbilder från mitt första betalda jobb som pyrotekniker!
Tyvärr så är videon nedtagen från nätet, ska se om jag kan fixa upp bara den delen där det skjuts i framöver.
Jag hade lite problem att få tag på squibs då jag kom in i projektet typ den enda tiden på året som Smålands Krutbruk var stängt och tydligen alla andra, som kunde tänkas ha, hade inga hemma! Continue reading