Hello there, and welcome to Diablo Productions.

My name is Chris Hetherington, I'm 16 years old and I am currently living in the beautiful area of Malvern. For the last few years, I have had a real passion for film making, especially in the special effects side of things. This website contains all my best work and is a great opportunity for me to share my work with the world.

Where it all began

I began film making a few years ago almost on a spur of the moment. Being a big fan of Starwars, I really wanted to have a go at making my own lightsaber fight, just to see what it would look like, just for a bit of fun. The whole thing was filmed on a digital camera and I then broke the whole clip down into frame by frame photos. I then loaded all the photos onto my computer and got to work loading each one separately into paint and drawing on the lightsaber. It took a very long time however at the end I was relatively pleased with the result and so I decided to do another, this time longer.

When I had finished that one I decided to look on You Tube to see if anyone else had tried a similar sort of effect. They had, and it was much better. I had to know how these people had done it so I tracked down one of their websites to see just what programs they used. I then did the tricky part of convincing my parents to let me get the programs and that is where it all began.