Silicone masks, Star Trek, magnificent ageing makeup, ghouls and ghosts, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the monsters of Doctor Who, and some Shakespeare courtesy of Sir Kenneth Branagh. What more could you want? Tutorials on fixing bad edges and a handy clay squeeze technique? We have those in issue 14 too!
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COVER: Personal project by Morgan Kimber for The Prosthetics Event 2018, FOR Cantor and Nissel. Contact lenses by Cantor and Nissel, dentures by Fangs FX. Model Amber Hertzberg
Page 8. KURTZMAN IN THE HOUSE: Industry veteran Robert Kurtzman on his move to Atlanta to summon spirits for filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s Netflix adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House including makeups on Fedor Steer as The Bowler Hat Man, Chuck Borden as Mr. Smiley, Robert Longstreet as Mr. Dudley, Joshua Campbell as The Basement Ghost, a host of house ghosts with fresh and desaturated looks, and a bug-bitten autopsy dummy body of Neill, aka the Bent Neck Lady, played by Victoria Pedretti
Page 28. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: the superb creature FX by ADI and MastersFX that didn’t appear in The Predator, one of the most hotly-anticipated genre films of 2018, inlcuding the Upgrade Predator and Facehugger-like helmet. Featuring designs by Constantine Sekeris, Ken Barthelmy, and Fausto De Martini, plus fascinating suit-build images
Page 41. THE BEAUTY BEHIND THE BEAST: Joe Nazzaro investigates a fascinating new book by writer and filmmaker Mallory O’Meara, which reveals the Creature from the Black Lagoon’s secret origin and the unsung talent of Milicent Patrick
Page 48. TRUE DETECTIVE: Mike Marino and his New York-based Prosthetic Renaissance (Proren) FX create stunning ageing makeups for the third instalment of HBO’s critically acclaimed series, amongst them makeups for Mahershala Ali as detective Wayne Hays, Steven Williams as Junius, Steven Dorff as detective Roland West, and Carmen Ejogo as Amelia Reardon
Page 58. DOCTOR WHO – A CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS, PART 1: In part one of a two-part feature, Who expect Martin Ruddock explores how the show’s rigorous monster and special FX requirements were met from its earliest days to the end of the original series in 1989, featuring The Ice Warriors, Davros, The Ogrons, The Sensorites, The Noble Draconians, The Sontarans, The Zygons, the Scaroth, and the Haemovores
Page 66. FIVE YEARS AND COUNTING: The Prosthetics Event has just celebrated its fifth anniversary; we look at what happens on the day and what’s next for the growing event, featuring demos from the day by Lorraine Taylor, Suzanna Forrister-Beer, Anthony Davies, Father Phantom Studio, Rob Mayor, Andy Savage, and more
Page 72. A YEAR OF DISCOVERY: Paul Jones whose Toronto-based effects studio was brought in to provide some of the prosthetics for the new Star Trek series talks about his brief tenure on the show, including creating twisted bodies, enhanced human makeups, Tribbles for dissection in Larka’s lab, makeup on Emily Coutts as Detmer, Tartigrade props, and a scarred torso for Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) following a Klingon interrogation
Page 82. IMMORTAL MASKS: The incredible success story of a business that started in a garage in 2010, and in under a decade has grown to dominate the silicone mask industry with its stunning designs, featuring popular masks such as Brimstone Flesh Variant, a Joker-Pennywise mashup, The Defiler, The Tormentor, Void, a licensed Gene Simmons mask, The Ambassador, The Tegu Variant, ZED Power Loader Variant, The Disciple, Stimpy, and others
Page 90. FONDEST FAREWELLS : Neill Gorton and Joe Nazzaro mark the recent loss of two industry treasures: Daniel C. Striepeke and Matt Rose
Page 91. ALL IS TRUE: Neill Gorton on the race to turn the inimitable Sir Kenneth Branagh into William Shakespeare for All is True, the movie that took the film world by surprise, with wonderful performaces from Dame Judi Dench as Anne Shakespeare, and Sir Ian McKellen as the Earl of Southampton
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Christopher Nelson, Academy Award-winner and two-time Emmy-winner sets the scene for this issue
Page 20. FIXING BAD EDGES: Our transatlantic educators, Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni, take on the challenge of bad edges on prosthetic appliances and show us how to successfully tackle and tame them
Page 36. SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT: EBA Performance Makeup, Jaro Turek’s brand formerly known as European Body Art, a market-leader in products for film and TV makeup FX, scare attractions, haunts and body art
Page 96. CLAY SQUEEZE: Neill Gorton shows us how to duplicate an appliance sculpture with a simple clay squeeze technique
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