Hot 'how to' video tutorials: special effects for your home movies

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These "how-to" videos will show you how to create your own movie special effects. How to: make it look like you are getting hit by a car, create a complex energy and particle effect, replicate the opening credit effect like in Juno, clone yourself, and throw a knife at someone's head without really killing them.

How to stage a hit-and-run using special effects
http://www.howcast.com/videos/214141-How-To-Get-Hit-By-a-Car

How to create a complex energy scene with CC particle world
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/energy/

Creating the Juno opening credits look
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/bonner_simon/The_Juno_Look/video-tutorial.php

Special effects: Human cloning and camera techniques
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srt07MIrRRo

Knife in the head demo by Multivision FX : Hollywood FX
http://www.howcast.com/videos/196854-Knife-in-the-Head-Demo-By-Multivision-FX-Hollywood-FX