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Welcome to Geoff's FX! We're here to make sure that the shot you want is the shot you get. Check back soon and often to keep up with current projects. If you have a project that requires that perfect effect, call or e-mail us. We're always glad to discuss ideas!
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Geoff
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Geoff Binns-Calvey is a leading rigger and special effects designer in Chicago. With over twenty years of experience, his work has been seen in countless commercials, films, and theatrical productions. Clients include McDonalds, Leo Burnett, FCB, Proctor and Gamble, Sears, General Electric, Miller Brewing, Suntory, Asahi, Bayer, Red Lobster and many others.
Geoff’s tabletop “cracker fogger “ has been used numerous times in national spots for McDonalds, Denny’s, Chili’s, Red Lobster and many other clients. This one of a kind machine provides realistic, adjustable, room temperature “steam” that can run all day long without wilting the food!
Geoff also has rentable items, such as variable speed turntables, and a full array of lab glass, including everything needed to make your Frankenstein lab gurgle, bubble, steam and glow.
Current projects include a three foot tall “Newton’s Cradle” desktop toy with three inch chrome balls; and a cotton field with weeds that blow up and disintegrate on command, for an herbicide company.
Here is a partial listing of credits:
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Delivering a baseball to a wedding cake with the slingshot rifle.
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1993-“Space Pirates” live action video game. Prop weapon construction, bullet hits, explosions, flame throwers, and breakaway walls.
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1993- 1997- the famous “Slim Jims” commercials, featuring Randy Savage crashing through walls, blowing through windows, dropping through skylights, and causing general mayhem in a safe, visually arresting style.
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1995- Flying Saturday Night Live’s Tim Meadows above a basketball court for an independent film.
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1998- Sears washing machines spot- a laundromat full of washing machines was rigged to blow their laundry out on cue, uisng safe, remotely triggered air cannons.
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1998- Flying “Daisy Mae”, a 400 lb transvestite, over the crowded dance floor at Vortex (dance club).
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2001- Constructing an oversized, variable speed, motorized turntable to spin an actor in a large armchair on top of a slender pole, eight feet in the air.
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2002- Constructing and rigging a fourteen foot styrofoam breakaway wall and column piece to collapse safely around Mayor Daley and dignitaries at the opening of the Noble Fool Theater.
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2003- Flying a child actor from the rafters of a basketball court for a Kelloggs’ spot with a rapid descent rig.
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2004- Exploding wedding cakes (with actors standing directly behind, splattered but unharmed)
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2004- Props and effects for “Dee Dee Rutherford”, a feature film, including breakaway props and pyro effects.
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2005- Stunt props for fight scenes in “You’re Going to Prison”, a feature film, including a malleable lead bed frame, and edged weapons cast in flexible urethane.
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2005- Hand turned and finished breakaway baseball bats for the John Malkovich film, “Drunkboat”.
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