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@danmartin.bsky.social
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imdb.me/DanielMartin Award winning FX artist. Azrael, Tarot, Banshees of Inisherin, Infinity Pool, DASHCAM, Possessor, Host, Color Out of Space, Lords of Chaos, High Rise etc. former c-host Arrow Video Pod.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Absolutely. I will say the close all tabs in window and save a ms a bookmarks folder) action has been amazing for that reason (though my bookmark hygiene has never been worse). I think the only sensible plan is to create a browser plugin that creates a RAG of my history that I can search against.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Is it an adhd thing to never want to tick the “don’t show me this again” box on even the most annoying app reminders? I don’t know the future; maybe I’ll desperately want whatever thing I’m currently dismissing but not even remember it’s a possibility…
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
That’s the problem, modern actors are all already in therapy and, thus, have all learned about reasonable professional boundaries. /s
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ha ha. That’s a good allegory.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It won’t give 10% of the discomfort of the original. No judgment on Parker Finn, just no studio’s going to finance a film where performances vacillate between psychotic meltdown & borderline hypnotised and the whole is as off-putting as possible to the point of being deliberately un-commercial.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Advances in the world of special effects!
An article with the title “New Plastic Masks Replace Sculpturing” claims “As fast as photography and almost as simple is a new process for making more accurate reproductions of head and bust than a sculptor can. Casts of heads can be made at low cost in 35 minutes.
A new type of plastic material, invented by Miss Harriet Meyer, Is the secret of the process. This plastic substance, with which she covers the entire head of the subject, accurately reproduces every strand of hair and minute line.
Yet the material does not stick to the subject. No oil is put on the face.
The subject can assume any expression he may wish to have reproduced.
The plastic material is applied with a brush and a brass cage pressed in place. The mask Is then dried with an electric blower. 
After drying the mask, still flexible, is removed. It is then used to produce the finished head in plaster of Paris or bronze.
It is claimed the plastic material does not cause discomfort to the subject and no tubes are necessary to permit the subject to breathe easily.”

The photos look horrifying; highlights include the person mid cast smoking through the (presumably flammable) “plastic” material and the “brass cage” which looks like a gibbet crossed with a medical external fixator.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ha ha.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Excited to break out that is is officially settled! Tove described them as like velvet and the official website mentioned their short fur in the blurb for Finn Family Moomintroll. I can’t find any official call on the texture of snorks, though, so presumably that is, indeed, sex-toy rubber.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Checking a detail of a short film I worked on and look what the second result is if you search “bald” on imdb!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Now there’s a goddamn epitaph!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I saw a deeply creepy reel on instagram announcing a new ai/robotic “companion”. I had the same response I’m sure most of you fine people will have had. So I made this. (Trigger warning: I used some ropey “free” ai in there. Sorry.)
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wonderful!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I would have a Gordom Brown mug. I would have a Gordon Brown mug. I would smash a Tony Blair mug.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Next Thursday I get to subject audiences to a favourite wtf movie of mine, courtesy of the generous hospitality of the lovely folks at My Eyes! My Eyes! It’s sort of a secret title but not really. I’ll also be making a clip show to go with it!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Why the hell aren’t pitta breads sold in ziplock bags?
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I get that you meant a game you play where you see if you can do it uninterrupted irl but I did also immediately think of you did a Gaussian splat of the are you could turn it into a mini-game that was like a cosy-core version of Exit 8.
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Rob Simpson @drumeggsfilms.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Part 3: F. One of the better working class-sploitation movies made in the UK & EIRE back in the day. Me & @knowhereandy.bsky.social chat to @danmartin.bsky.social about his origins plannings effects shots. Watch and Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsRC...
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The Early Career of an FX Maestro — Johannes Roberts’ F with Dan Martin
YouTube video by The Geek Show
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Oh, Seoul Station is amazing. I’d also recommend his other two animated features, The Fake and King of Pigs, but maybe just for you.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
That’s awesome! Do you think he’d vibe with Seoul Station? (Given that Train to Busan 2 is deeply underwhelming, imo)
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Found in the attic. Crazy to think how long ago this was.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Timeless!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Yes! Really getting down to the minutiae of all the different ways in which government can be corrupt/inept.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ha ha. Imagine!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Pitch for a TV series: A single camera, local government drama about the newly elected mayor (and the subsequent administrations- I see this thing as multi season) trying to deal with the Jason “situation” in the quiet hamlet of Crystal Lake. Kind of like if Friday the 13th did Shin Godzilla.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Get a pine-note, cheap, open source, community driven software and OS, doesn’t spend money on building rockets or data centres.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just American ships and ships heading to America, right? Right?
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I think I’m stuck in traffic behind the dead wife of Kazuhiko Amamiya! #ExtremelyNicheReferences #IExplainItInTheAltText,IfYouWereWonderingWhatTheFuckI’mOnAbout
A photograph of a BMW painted an unusual (custom?) sky blue and bear the license plate RI EKO, which is probably coincidentally the name of actress Rieko Miura, who played the character Chizuko Honda/Kobayashi, wife of detective Yosuke Kobayashi in the series MPD Psycho, and whose abduction and murder is the exciting incident for the entire show as well as the reason for the psychological break that causes Kobayashi to develop the multiple personalities (including analytical Kazuhiko Amamiya) that make himself the titular “Multiple Personality Detective: Psycho”.

It’s a tenuous joke.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
For a while I was trapped getting every release from a super boutique label reassembling & releasing Indonesian genre film. Each a limited edition of 20! Eventually Pig, (then a puppy) eating discs 1 and 2 in the series. It finally felt like it wasn’t worth bothering with the rest and I was free.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ha ha ha.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ha ha. I invested at the start so had 3 years of everything just sent to me. This year is my first on the regular subscription, I’ve seen embarking few of them but I really want to watch all of them. There’s just never enough time.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Yeah, I think the collection is also becoming a way of bookmarking things I plan to watch, as it won’t all be available in a year or so, when I get round to being in the right place for them.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Do you still hoard physical media, though?
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It’s not historically accurate unless you get to drink the in-use preservation fluid with a friend. A friend you then have sent to the gulag because, while off his face on Leninade, he confides in you that he thinks your wife is hot?
A screngrab of a game called “Embalming Lenin’s body” on the google play store featuring not-at-all historically accurate cartoon depictions of his corpse in a morgue.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Big dentist, once again, getting its well scrubbed fingers into the mouth of popular music.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Radio 6 was playing Juice Newton’s Angel of the morning as I was driving today and I think the lyrics are “Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my teeth before you leave me, baby” How weird. (I am not looking to be corrected.)
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I’m very excited to discover Jan Kounen has a new film out but what an incredibly brusque synopsis!
Screen-grab of the synopsis of The Shrinking Man from imdb 

It reads “Plot: The Shrinking Man (2025)
Shipbuilder inexplicably shrinks, gets trapped in basement, few inches tall. Must fight for survival in now-hostile ordinary household environment. Sci-fi premise, no explanation given for shrinking phenomenon.”
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The Geek Show @thegeekshow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Uncut has been off a longer than planned, but join us in a brand new strand for the podcast. Uncut Presents... up first is British FX icon, @danmartin.bsky.social #horror #PodernFamily Join @uncutrobcast.bsky.social & @knowhereandy.bsky.social and Listen Here: open.spotify.com/episode/2l7o...
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Uncut Presents: FX Maestro Dan Martin on Bad Taste, Parents & F – Practical Effects, Horror Classics & Creative Influences
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Let me tell you something about Cuba. US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive:
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Kat Hughes @kathughes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Absolutely love this @filmstories.bsky.social cover. I have a piece in this issue talking to @danmartin.bsky.social about all things FX. Order your copy now: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
He does indeed.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Orwell must feel pretty smug right about now.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Thank you!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
First peek at the creature we built for the upcoming Hungry!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Yay, first Nancy the hippo and now our Dolly is getting seen! Terrific!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Shhhh
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
What the heck, Amazon?
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Human Centipede 2 next?
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Amazing! Props need to go to @jhandorf.bsky.social for the properness.
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Thank you!!
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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Glad you’re back!!
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