Issue 12 covers prosthetics for a Marvel Comics character, a classic space opera, and transforming Antonio Banderas into a famous artist. Also: some infectious Norwegian whimsy, the work of Don Lanning, stunning creatures, and Halloween haunts and scare attractions, plus tutorials on SFX dentures, burn scarring, and flocking.
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COVER: Josh Brolin as Cable in Deadpool 2 (20th Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment 2018). Makeup by Bill Corso, Andrew Clement’s Creative Character Engineering and Mike Smithson
Page 8. ARTISTIC GENIUS: Davina Lamont and Göran Lundström on transforming Antonio Banderas into Pablo Picasso, incorporating extreme ageing makeup, for the second series of Genius, as well as ageing makeup on Sofia Doniants as Olga Picasso, Poppy Delevinge as Marie-Thérèse Walter, Andrew Buchan as Henri Matisse, Samantha Colley as Dora Maar, T.R. Knight as Max Jacob, and Tracee Chimo as Gertrude Stein
Page 28. CREATING CABLE: Bill Corso, Andrew Clement’s Creative Character Engineering, and Mike Smithson transform Josh Brolin into time-traveling cyber-assassin Cable for Deadpool 2, also starring Ryan Reynolds
Page 46. FROZEN FEAR: Ivan Poharnok’s Budapest-based Filmefex creates breathtaking work for AMC’s 2017-18 US television season sleeper hit The Terror, including combining ZBrush and 3D-printing with practical techniquesa to build a one-metre, life-size VFX reference head of Tuunbaq, a monstrous spirit polar bear-like creature, as well as creating a dead polar bear cub with a head wound, seal and monkey dummies, numerous human dummies and heads with horrific, fatal injuries, plus casualty and trauma makeup effects
Page 58. FX CRIBS: Thingergy Inc. makes superb props, costumes, display figures, and effects for the entertainment industry. Here, we take a tour around the company ’s new 10,100 sq. ft. space in Burbank, California with Frank Ippolito, the company’s Head Thing Maker
Page 68. MAGNUS – A MAKEUP FX DREAM JOB: Jim Udenberg on the challenges and triumphs of creating the prosthetics for Norsemenn executive producer Anders Tangen’s intriguing new six-part Norwegian fantasy series, with characters such as Erik the troll (Kristoffer Olsen), who wears a dog mascot costume throughout the series, the gnomes – Gollum-like creatures – and disguises for lead character Magnus, played by series creator and writer, Vidar Magnussen
Page 78. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: the story of the creature FX team from Babylon 5’s feature-length pilot movie, The Gathering, who lost out on the subsequent series, showing work such as G’Kar prosthetics, Mira Furlan as Ambassador Delenn, the Minbari assassin, assorted alien masks, and Kosh the Vorlon amabassador
Page 82. THE MAN IN THE MAGIC STORE – Part 2: Further career highlights, unexpected joys, and some valuable advice from master sculptor Don Lanning, inlcuding a look at his work on Star Trek Beyond, Thir13en Ghosts, Team America: World Police, Superman Returns, Nip/Tuck, Alien vs. Predator, Lady in the Water, Where the Wild Things Are, and Fantastic Four
Page 92. THE ATTRACTION OF HAUNTS: The haunt and scare attraction industry is huge in the USA; Neill Gorton investigates the opportunities for prosthetics artists within it on a visit to TransWorld, where he catches up with traders including BITY (Brick in the Yard) Mold Supply, Mike Spatola with his Monstrous Makeup Manual, Allan Apone and MEL Products, Michael Burnett, Immortal Masks, European Body Art, Reynolds Advanced Materials, Paasche Airbrushes, and Nightmare Makers, and artists such as foam latex specialist Justin Fears, makeup artist Lauren ‘Ace’ Navarrete, and body artist Nix Herrera
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Frank Ippolito, owner of Thingergy Inc., co-host of Tested’s CreatureGeek podcast and Face Off aficionado sets the scene for this issue
Page 20. SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT: MEL Products: we delve into the brand with Allan Apone’s forty years of industry experience behind it and a knack for producing ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ products
Page 23. ADAPTING GENERIC DENTURES: Neill Gorton shares his technique for using dental impression silicone to adapt inexpensive, generic FX dentures for a custom-fit
Page 39. CREATING REALISTIC BURN SCARRING – Part 2: Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni show us how to create burn contracture scarring specifically for film and stage use, with a bonus demo on creating scald burn effects
Page 62. FABULOUS FLOCK: Neill Gorton illustrates why this useful product has had a resurgence in recent years with his guide to flock, flocking and its various uses in prosthetics and makeup FX
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