How To Create A Cool Bleeding Knife Effect

Another tutorial from Stuart from http://www.learnprostheticmakeup.com/. This video shows you how I created a realistic bleeding blade to simulate skin cutting for a TV show I did a few weeks back.

There was no time or budget to make a fake chest, and I was not sure where the camera would be so I had to make it work from every angle, make it safe and make it quick. I recreate the process for you here.

Check out my new blog where I will be posting other tutorials, articles and makeup FX goodies: http://www.learnmakeupeffects.com/blog/

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• gags
• effects
• knife
• bleeding
• film
• prop
• trick
• fx
• fake
• realistic
• blood
• halloween

[abthegreat001]

wow could it get any more difficult

[stuartbray73]

@abthegreat001 Depends if you want it to work every time in closeup without fail - especially when you never know who is going to operate it so it has to be made idiot proof.

Certainly took a bit of figuring out but if it was made from a plastic handle then it would have been much, much easier.

-Stuart

[frogjezz]

Funny how you say to get a good fake blood, as the dodgy ones stain, and yet the stuff you use is shit, its brown.

[stuartbray73]

@frogjezz I thinned the blood with water to allow it to flow through the tiny aperture more easily, and the blood has got a lot more yellow in it. I have several bloods (aged, fresh, arterial etc with some bluer and others more yellow), so it does come out on my pasty skin rather brown, yes. But you can of course get blood which is not so brown looking...just make sure it doesn't stain you, clothes or costume is all, which the cheaper ones tend to do.

-Stuart

[MichealOconnor]

What is Styrene, and is there a household object interchangeable with it?

Thanks in advance, and awesome tutorial

[stuartbray73]

@MichealOconnor Styrene in this instance is the styrene plastic sheet, which is usually available from model making shops (remote control planes etc). Not so much a Toys R Us place - more of a shop that supplies people who also scratch-build from raw materials.

I guess you can use any thin plastic sheet, but styrene is available in a number of thicknesses and is 'welded' with a solvent such as chloroform ensuring no leaks. Soft-plastic CD cases, plastic trays may work but are thicker.

-Stu

[EternalLegacyGamer]

THis is the worst song ever

[DameonDiezHard]

EWWWWW I DONT LIKE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DONNNNNNNNNNNNNNT LIKE IT STOP!

[massseyman14]

dam. good vid.. just a little too complicated for my doings

[25iloveskateboarding]

Thats sick man in the end it looked exactly like it

[Sniffle27]

That.... was.... FUCKING AWESOME!

[PabloTheMan1]

Lol looks like BBQ sauce LOL cool though