Practical Effect Techniques
Practical Effect Techniques include:
- The use of Prosthetic makeup, animatronics, puppetry or suitmation to create the appearance of living creatures.
- Miniature effects, which is the use of scale models which are photographed in a way that they appear full sized.
- Mechanical Effects, such as Aerial rigging to simulate flight, stage mounted gimbals to make the ground move, or other mechanical devices to physically manipulate the environment.
- Pyrotechnics for the appearance of fire and explosions.
- Weather effects such as sprinkler systems to create rain and fog machines to create smoke.
- Squibs to create the illusion of gunshot wounds.
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