There’s a melange of masterful work in issue 18: reality TV transformations, retrospectives of industry royalty Rick Baker and Tom Savini, and hard-hitting hyperrealism from Tristan Versluis for 1917. Also: demons, nightmares, hauntings, and invisible friends, plus tutorials on airbrushes and the history of life casting and much more!
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COVER: Marti Matulis as George in Evil – Season 1 (CBS). Makeup designed by Joel Harlow
Page 8. DOCTOR SLEEP: Robert Kurtzman on resurrecting the guests of the notorious Overlook Hotel for the sequel to classic horror story The Shining, featuring full body makeup on Sallye Hook as Mrs. Massey, de-ageing and ageing makeups on Carel Struycken as Grampa Flick, casaulty makeup on Zahn McClarnon as Crow Daddy, corpses, axe wounds, and more
Page 18. IN A MAN’S WORLD: Dave and Lou Elsey’s extraordinary disguise makeups transform four dynamic women into men for Bravo’s social experiment reality TV show, for which the Elseys also lend their skills as on-camera mentors
Page 28. 1917: THE HORRORS OF WAR: Tristan Versluis on his Academy Award-nominated work on Sam Mendes’ acclaimed war drama 1917, for which he sensitively approached the creation of hyperrealistic articulated, poseable dummy bodies of soldiers, civilian and animal corpses, and casualty makeups, inlcuding burns
Page 38. PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: Two innovative artists working at the extremes of face and body art share their niche-finding journeys: Aeni Domme, airbrushing and HD makeup specialist who was key makeup artist on Manson: The Lost Tapes, and whose body art was featured in the documentary The Painted Warrior, and Einat Dan whose avant-garde makeup and body art style has won her multiple awards, seen her work with clients inlcuding Jean Paul Gaultier, Tommy Hilfiger, Valentino, Fendi, and Vivienne Westwood, and appear in publications such as Vogue, Elle, InStyle, and Tatler. Featuring photogrpahy by Nicoló Lanfranchi, Ekaterina Belinskaya, Camilla Camaglia, Josh Brandão, and Ava Pivot
Page 46. THE FACE OF EVIL: Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow’s take on demonic possession for CBS’s new supernatural drama series Evil, featuring the Devil Therapist created by Harlow, Jeremy Selenfriend, Joey Orosco, and Gil Liberto, an array of demons, and ‘The Butcher’ played by anthrax guitarist Scott Ian
Page 66. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MONSTER-MAKER, PART 2: The second of our two-part interview with the legendary Rick Baker about his autobiography, Metamorphosis, takes us from Thriller through An American Werewolf in London, and Coming to America, to The Grinch, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, Planet of the Apes, The Wolfman, and beyond
Page 86. THE GRANDE ILLUSIONIST: On the publication of his official biography, ‘The Godfather of Gore’ Tom Savini reflects on growing up as a monster kid and his long career as a makeup FX artist, stuntman, actor and director, working on productions including Dead of Night, Deranged, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, Lost Boys: The Tribe, Grindhouse, Django Unchained, Creepshow, The Prowler, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Burning, and Tales from the Darkside
Page 93. DANIEL ISN’T REAL: Todd Tucker’s Illusion Industries artists on their old-school approach to the creatures and makeup FX for Adam Egypt Mortimer’s movie about a deadly imaginary friend. Led by key creature designer and sculptor Martin Astles, they designed the look for Daniel (Patrick Schwarzenegger), created Thingpen, a demon centered around trypophobia, a fear of holes, a complex ‘face flicker’ effect to portray demonic posession between Schwarzenegger’s character and Luke (Miles Robbins), a faceless demon, a plague mask, and more. Featuring sculptures by Mikey Rotella, Miles Teves, Matt Rose, and Neal Kennemore
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Clinton Aiden Smith, trailblazer in South African prosthetics and global hybrid working practice sets the scene for this issue
Page 56. A VERY INTIMATE PORTRAIT, PART 2 – A CENTURY OF LIFE CASTING: The intimate process of life casting yields very personal results. The concluding part of our study of its origins and influence looks at how life casting has evolved over the past 100 years, with images from the life mask collection of William Forsche including casts of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Grace Kelly, and Charlton Heston, and examines the development of digital scanning and 3D printing
Page 78. AIRBRUSH 101 – A PRIMER: Our transatlantic educators Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni’s essential guide to airbrush anatomy, fittings and functions, care and cleaning
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