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Special Effects

Special Effects Episode It's amazing how each week on SCOPE Dr Rob manages to make the impossible, possible by shrinking to the size of a bug, flying through space, lifting a car - even disappearing altogether!

Very few movies or television shows are made today without the help of special effects. It's all smoke, mirrors and a whole lot of science!

Join Dr Rob as he discovers how special effects help make the ordinary, extraordinary under the SCOPE!

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Find out more about the role of an explosives expert in films and TV
Read how dry ice works
Visit some of John Cox's animatronics friends
See some of the special effects created by Dael and Justen at Animal Logic
View CSIRO's water animations for yourself

Make your own fake wound.

Visit these websites for more information about special effects.

Read how a blue screen works
Check out the prosthetics and make-up effects from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, created by WETA
Find out all you need to know about dry ice
See how visual effects were created by Centropolis FX for movies like The Patriot
See how water and other computer-generated effects were created by Industrial Light and Magic for the movie The Perfect Storm

Create your own special effects with these science activities from CSIRO's Science by Email:

Create fake wounds
Make things roll uphill

Dr Rob
Chris Anderson, Stunts Coordinator
John Cox, Animatronics Expert
John Fox, Explosives Expert
Justen Marshall, Software Supervisor
Dael Oates, Computer Image Designer
Mahesh Prakash, Research Scientist, CSIRO

Special Effects Episode

VIDEO CLIPS

Special Effects

Special effects with a camera

All about dry ice

Making fake wounds

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