Issue 20 covers new comedy and horror movies, a time-hopping TV series, stunning lookalike makeup, and airbrush exercises. It’s also a product of these difficult times; the lack of reference to Covid-19 is because we want you to escape the stress of it for a while. Instead, you’ll see how 8 industry artists continued being brilliantly creative.
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COVER: Samantha Gardiner as Needle Face Mom in Books of Blood (Hulu, 2020). Prosthetic makeup designed by Toby Lindala, applied by Lindala and Patrick Baxter
Page 8. NEW AND EXCELLENT ADVENTURES: Kevin Yagher, Bill Corso, Steve Kelley and Steve Wang on muscle suits, makeup FX and mirth on 2020’s much-needed feel-good movie, Bill & Ted Face the Music, starring Keanu Reeves as Ted Theodore Logan and Alex Winter as William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. Includes a look at William Saddler’s makep as The Grim Reaper, aka Death, and new character Dennis Caleb McCoy, a time-travelling robot played by Anthony Carrigan, with suit created by Steve Wang
Page 20. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: a trip into the DC Universe with the Swamp Thing TV series characters that fell victim to a surprise shutdown of filming. with Fractured FX creating the prosthetics, including the Floronic Man suit for actor Kevin Durand, and a blue devil makeup for actor Ian Ziering
Page 26. THE MIRACLE OF MAKEUP: Emmy-winner Richard Redlefsen (Bombshell, Captain Marvel, Twin Peaks, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) realises a personal ambition to create a lookalike makeup of iconic historical figure Mother Teresa of Calcutta, with exquisite results
Page 34. IDLE HANDS: What do some of the industry’s busiest artists do when they’re presented with a lot of free time? Keep on making monsters of course! An uplifting gallery of wonderful new prosthetic work created during the most challenging of times by Joel Harlow, Barrie Gower, Alex Harper, Dan Crawley, Jamie Kelman, Andrew Freeman and Neill Gorton
Page 69: DARK THOUGHTS: The makeup team on ambitious German sci-fi series Dark discuss the complex task of creating the prosthetic FX for three seasons of time-hopping drama, inlcuding ageing, casulty, and character makeups, a dummy body, pregnant belly, and a full back tattoo created by a team of international artists including Christina Wagner, Tamar Aviv and Jörn Seifert’s Twilight Creations, Morten Jacobsen, and Mark Coulier’s Coulier Creatures
Page 81. COVENTRY CALLING: We mark the coming of age of The Prosthetics Event in 2019 with its move to a larger venue: Coventry’s award-winning Ricoh Arena, featuring demos from the day by artists including Allesandro Ballacci and Sam Shuck, Dana Bordea, June Waller, Begoña Fernández Martín, Göran Lundström, Richard Martin, a fabulous Reverend Brown tribute makeup on street stule guru Normski, by Stuart Bray and Neil Morrill for Siân Richards London, and more
Page 88. REOPENING THE BOOKS OF BLOOD: Brannon Braga, Patrick Baxter and Toby Lindala on bringing Clive Barker’s groundbreaking horror Books of Blood to Hulu, including full inscribed body prosthetics for actor Rafi Gavron as Simon, ‘undead’ manikins, the People in the Walls, a table rig for a scene in which actor Yul Vazquez’ character Bennett’s body is dismembered, and the drooling Needle Mouth Mom played by Samantha Gardiner
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Joel Harlow, Academy, Primetime Emmy, Saturn and Guild Award-winner sets the scene for this issue
Page 60: AIRBRUSH 101 – A PRIMER, Part 3: In the concluding part of their primer our transatlantic educators Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni give us exercises and insights with which to practice airbrushing techniques
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