MAX effects s.r.o.
Practical special effects for your shot.
SFX company based in Prague
MAX effects
What we do
We provide various practical SFX services for media productions in
Czech republic and Slovakia
When producing an audio-visual work, such as film, TV show, music clip, advertisement or theatre play, many things cannot be done the same way as in reality. Not many productions can afford to wait for rain, for the perfect foggy morning or for a wind storm. You cannot have real rain and snow in studio. It is not possible to have a real explosion on set, because actors or staff might get hurt.
This is why we exist. Our purpose is to bring as real as possible simulations of all these effects and more. We can create safe explosions on sets, we can create rain and other weather where you need and much more.
Dive with us into the world of special effects.
Atmospherics
Do you need dawn with romantic morning mist? The feeling of an old alchemist laboratory? Rainy afternoon? Gloomy evening when it starts to snow?
We can provide any atmospheric effects common on the market.
Paper and foam snow. Snow candles.
Wetdown and rain from stands or from rotary nozzles on rigs.
Wind from electric and petrol wind machines.
Interior and exterior smoke, fog and haze.
Both from oil and water based fluids. Heavy fog or pyrotechnic smoke and are also possible.
Simulated explosions and bullet hits
Do you need you main actor shot and still on the set the next day? Do you need to blow up a car, a building or anything else?
We can provide any realistic simulated explosions by various means. Pyrotechnic simulators, air/nitrogen cannons or mechanical simulators. Of course soft debris and all the required safety and legality is a must.
For bullet hits we can do body squibs with blood bags, material hits into fake walls or other decorations, paintballs with dust or sparks and many others.
Our projects
Some of the projects, our team worked on.
What else do we do
There are many other aspects to practical SFX. So you don't get killed by reading thousand pages of text about our beloved department, we prepared this short list below.
Fire
Fire of any kind color and flavour. Fake campfires, fireplaces, iron wood, torches, flamethrowers, burning objects and buildings, equipment for body burns. Pyrotechnics. Safe and controlled.
Mechanics
Rigs, gimballs, rotary rooms and other mechanical constructions. Hydraulics, pneumatics, motors and servos. Anything goes. Motion control best in Prague.
Props
Designing, casting, shaping, CNC milling, 3D printing of various props. Burning, floating, flying. Soft foam, hard foam, resin, breakaway, gold, silver, bronze, metal. We design and make.