When you hear the term “visual effects shot,” you might think of Spiderman swinging from tall buildings, or explosions or dinosaurs or spaceships. Yes, those are effects shot, and they wow us when we see something fantastical.

But sometimes, a visual effects shot is meant to go UNNOTICED. In the video below, we needed a reaction shot of the character Daniel (played by Jason Wishnov) and didn’t specifically shoot it during production. So we “made” this shot by employing visual effects techniques.

Just wanted to update you all that our visual effects studio is busy creating some amazing special effects shots for the movie. Everyone’s getting the special-effects treatment: Steve, Cristina, Greg, Spike, Axelle, Peter and of course, Richard Epcar. If you’re all reeeeal good, maybe we’ll show them to you at the Broken Spirits panel at Anime Expo!

Valerie (Cristina Vee) clutches onto Scott (Steve Weese) as the death cloud rolls in.

When the portal opens, and sucks you in… who ya gonna call? That’s right, the spiritbuster himself: Godric!

Converting the GoPro “car cam” shot to Widescreen 24fps.

You’ve probably seen the TV commercials for the GoPro Hero HD camera, the tiny camcorder popular with skydivers, hang gliders, surfers and race car drivers to get those incredible action shots.

Broken Spirits director Peter Bohush has owned his GoPro for several years now, and put it to use for some special shots in the movie. Check out the shot in the Trailer #1 where Trey (Gregory Crafts) nearly stomps on the camera as he’s being chased by the evil Indio (Peter Jang.) Or the behind-the-scenes video of Scott (Steve Weese) falling off a small cliff and crashing into the camera, and Cookson (Dave Pereyra) running through the creek and splashing over the camera. These were all shot on our little GoPro.

The mysterious orb appears during the sweat lodge ceremony.

In this concept shot, Amy and Ash playing sweat lodge customers see a similar version of what the orb will look like in the movie.

Here’s a concept art image of a shot from the climactic scene in Broken Spirits, where the Lifeline cords of the Mortals trapped in the alternate dimension wind themselves around the Evils. It’s the ultimate irony that the Lifelines are what the Evils need to escape and return to the mortal world, and now the lines become their chains.

But don’t think for a moment that these lines can hold the evil Montague, Loria and Indio forever. The Mortals are not safe yet. As you will see in the finale of Broken Spirits.

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Here’s our latest movie poster. A big thanks to David Paplia of Nephuxs Designs who designed the cool new logo!

Broken Spirits held a panel discussion at Anime Expo 2011 in Los Angeles. An audience member graciously recorded the panel. Thanks!

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L-R: Indio (Peter Jang), Montague (Spike Spencer) and Loria (Axelle Cummings) plot their escape from the alternate dimension. ©2011 Broken Spirits.

Trust us when we say you don’t want to meet up with these three in the alternate dimension.