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December 13, 2018
To kick off the Halloween season, this October we had the pleasure of working with Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center during their run of the musical Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A small group of our blood technicians used three of our SquibFX Kurasawa rigs, which worked great for the sustained continuous spray of blood that is all too infamous with the story of Sweeney Todd....More
November 30, 2017
Though Squib FX have been used for a long time, we have seen a lot of action in the past few years. From "Misery" on Broadway featuring Bruce Willis, to the WGN TV show "Outsiders", to film in Eli Roth's new film "Haunt". Our squib rigs have been used to great effect on at least 100 other productions that we'll never know about in the past year alone. If you use one of our rigs on a film or TV or...More
May 3, 2017
Last weekend, Squib FX founder and inventor Steve Tolin was honored with an award from Steeltown Entertainment. Called the Elly Impact Award, it was awarded to celebrate the impact that Steve's company Tolin FX has on the Pittsburgh film community. Of course a large part of the foundation that Tolin FX stands on is our blood work and squib rigs that we sell at Squib FX. We are really proud to be...More
The next (and in hindsight, quite obvious) step for our blood squibs was on the stage. I got my first theatre bloodslinger gig as one get most jobs, standing around having a break and talking to a bunch of other artists. A theatre friend Eric Linegar was lighting a show called The Pillowman and they needed a character to be shot live on stage. He knew me as a puppet maker mostly, but knew I...More
November 9, 2016
A very interesting article about the use of squibs on set appeared recently in the LA Times. You can read the full article here. We at Squib FX have always known that there are many advantages to using our air powered squibs rather than traditional explosive squibs. Our squibs are more economic, easier to use, adjustable, and do not require special licenses or permits as old methods do. But...More
November 18, 2015
We are very proud to announce that Squib FX has been showcased as a featured product in the largest issue of Makeup Artist Magazine ever printed! Now on shelves, the October/November issue is full of great information and features tons of cool products. And #5 on the list of products that are so awesome that Makeup Artist Magazine just has to feature them is Squib FX! Issue 116 spotlights one of...More
September 10, 2015
We are thrilled to announce that Squib FX will be joining Tolin FX as an artist vendor for Wizard World in Pittsburgh! Wizard World Pittsburgh takes place Sept. 11-13 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center downtown.This year will be the first time Wizard World has come to Pittsburgh and we’re thrilled to be a part of its inaugural visit. Squib FX will be showcasing several of our rigs,...More
July 2, 2015
The past few months have been very busy at Squib FX. Not just from the rigs that we are constantly making for filmmakers and artists all over the world, but from the numerous projects that have also desired our personal attention, asking not just for use of our rigs but the experience of our blood effects services. While we are definitely creating rigs for orders all the time, much of our time is...More
March 20, 2015
Many of you may not know this, but there is an underground subculture that exists all around us. It consists of folks who are very driven to preserve history. Not through paintings or song or text, but through the reenactment of some of man's darkest hours. These war reenactors can range from those who seek the camaraderie of their fellow Civil War or WW2 or Great War enthusiasts and spend much...More
March 19, 2015
Baton Rouge has a haunted kind of feel to it, and I couldn't imagine a more chilling setting for Hauntcon 2015. Months ago my wife Erica and I were trying to think of what markets and industries that were not super obvious might benefit from our safe, affordable, simple bullet hit rigs and we came up with the haunt industry. As haunts seem to move more toward theatre and theatre more...More
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