Character Makeup with One-Piece Silicone Appliance (Penguin)

Sculpting a one-piece character prosthetic using Chavant NSP medium plastiline. The complete process from start to finish: blocking out, refining, and detailing including creating skin textures.

Casting a plaster positive from a silicone life cast. Preparing for casting the plaster positive, casting the plaster and then mounting and cleaning up the plaster cast.

Preparing the life cast for moulding and then brushing up a silicone master negative mould using quick cure silicone and silicone thixo additives, then dividing the cast with shim in order to create a two-piece jacket.

Using Acrylic One to laminate a two-piece hard jacket or case mould, over a silicone brush-up negative, to complete a matrix mould of a full head life cast.

Making a negative mould from a prosthetic sculpture using Acrylic One. Adding flashing and setting rods into the core for making bolt holes, cleaning and trimming the mould, and adding a pour tube.

Testing a prosthetic mould by casting A&B silicone into it to see if the mould works well, or if adjustments are needed.

Casting (or running) the one-piece silicone gel appliance. Releasing the mould, applying cap plastic encapsulate, pouring the silicone and opening the mould.