Issue 10 has a watery vibe with fantasy amphibians and sea creatures, along with raging orcs, a terrifying jester, and a colourful cat! This, plus beautiful character makeup, tutorials on bald caps, flat moulds, a clever use for left over moulding silicone, and how YouTube rates for teaching prosthetics.
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COVER: Mogg played by Charlie Rawes, Shadow of War commercial (Sony PlayStation) 2017. Makeup sculpted by Rogier Samuels, applied by Rogier Samuels, Carola Brockhoff, Inga Ross and Luigi d’Andrea
Page 8. OUT OF THE OCEAN: Arturo Balseiro, winner of Goya and Gaudí Awards, on creating sea fiends for Xavier Gens’ dark sci-fi horror Cold Skin, with his Madrid-based company Dharma Estudio, incorporating hybrid techniques – traditional sculpture as well as ZBrush and 3D printing – to design and create full body and face prosthetics including on Aura Garrido as Aneris, and a fibreglass replica of a 19th century scaphander diving suit
Page 30. WORKING WONDERS: Arjen Tuiten discusses the challenges of his triumphant makeup on nine-year-old Jacob Tremblay playing Auggie Pullman in Wonder, directed by Stephen Chbosky, and co-starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson,
Page 50. LET SLIP THE ORCS OF WAR: Rogier Samuels on Unreal Effects’ return to the familiar territoriy of Middle-earth, having worked for Weta Workshop on Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings, for PlayStation’s Shadow of War commercials, creating ‘badass Orc’ makeups for actors including Spencer Wilding, who played Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Page 64. THE TERROR OF HALLOW’S EVE: Illusion Industries’ president Todd Tucker and key makeup FX artist Martin Astles tell Scott Essman about Tucker’s latest innovative filmmaking project, featuring Doug Jones as The Trickster
Page 72. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: Kevin Yagher’s pitch for The Cat in the Hat that eventually went to Steve Johnson and Edge FX
Page 78. THE SHAPE OF WATER: Mike Hill, Shane Mahan and Legacy FX navigate the creation of an ambitious amphibian for Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy drama, building an iconic creature suit for actor Doug Jones whose character forms a unique relationship with janitor Elisa Esposito, played by Sally Hawkins, as he’s held captive in a secret research facility in the 1960s
Page 88. THE PROSTHETICS EVENT: Neill Gorton explains the success of the UK’s annual specialist event that focuses on special makeup effects, prosthetics, and body art, including demos from the day by Father Phantom Studio, Richard Martin, Angela Youngs for Paintopia, Adrain Rigby and Sam Shuck, Toby Bridle, Jade Connor, Magdalena Kulig, Suzanna Forrister-Beer for Neill’s Materials, and his own main stage demo with Millennium FX co-director Rob Mayor, of Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show!
Page 93. THE YOUTUBE GENERATION: Mary Loveday investigates what the Internet’s biggest video-sharing community offers students of makeup FX, including the pros and cons of its educational content, and putting it to the CRAPP test
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Kate Walshe, co-director of multi-award winning Millennium FX sets the scene for this issue
Page 21. BALD CAPS and BALD CAP MATERIAL: Transatlantic educators Todd Debreceni and Stuart Bray take us through how to make your own bald caps
Page 40. FLAT MOULD PROSTHETICS – Part 2: In the second of a two-part tutorial, senior Millennium FX artists Anthony Davies and Morgan Kimber create an entire full head makeup using only flat moulds
Page 61. PUT A LID ON IT!: Neill Gorton explains his trick for using up left over moulding silicone to keep adhesives fresh for longer in shot glasses
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