Five departments.
One phone call.
From a single bespoke effect to a complete action package, Essential Stunts & Special Effects customises a team to the specific needs of your production. Every effect is real, every stunt is performed, and every setup is engineered for safety and camera.
Special Effects
- General atmospherics interior and exterior — rain of all sizes via tower systems and overhead rigs with spinner nozzles
- Fire of all scales, snow, and wind machines from a leaf blower to V8-powered exterior units
- High-pressure pneumatics — pigs, car cannons, pneumatic lifters
- Breakaway sets, hydraulic platforms, cable pulls, controlled collapses, and special builds
This looks like
A monsoon-level rainstorm from an overhead rig, a floor that drops on cue, a vehicle launched by a pneumatic cannon — all practical, all in-camera.
Pyrotechnics
- Licensed pyrotechnician — remote and hardline firing box systems
- Explosions, pyro quick releases, and sparks of all sizes
- Bullet hits on wardrobe, and squibs on buildings, cars, and set pieces built to safe specifications to simulate the bullet hit effect
- Full safety planning coordinated with stunts health and safety, grips, 1st AD, and camera
This looks like
A car explosion with a stunt performer walking through the fireball — one take, real fire, real timing.
Stunt Coordination
- Stunt teams customised to the specific needs of your production
- Fight choreography, vehicle action, high falls, fire gags, glass breakaways
- Filmed pre-vis of action sequences — usable as storyboards and editing reference
- Performer casting, rehearsal, on-set safety protocols, multi-unit coordination
This looks like
An action sequence with 12 stunt performers, three vehicles, and a building collapse — planned, rehearsed, and executed in two shoot days.
Stunt & Special Effects Rigging
- Modern rigging equipment — wire work for flying, fighting, and horizontal travel
- Descender systems for high falls, track wires, aerial rigs
- Load-engineered rigging integrated with set construction and grip
- Inspection protocols before every take
Plus
Special effects does its own calculations for velocity, mass, speed, and momentum — incorporating optimal angles of weight bearing points versus the space a crane arm needs to move, for example. Sometimes lifting or pulling points have to be engineered in our workshop first and tested rigorously before they get the go-ahead.
Stunt Performer
- Doubling for principal cast — fights, falls, vehicle hits, fire burns
- Wire work, weapons handling, precision driving — a wide variety of looks and skills
- 25 years of on-set performance across international productions
- Performance background that informs every coordination decision
This looks like
A close-quarters fight scene where the double matches the lead in movement, build, and timing — the cut is invisible.