An education-packed issue! We go step-by-step through pre-painting encapsulated silicone prosthetics, direct fabrication of 3D transfers, colour theory, and prosthetic mould making, plus makeup brush facts and a creature suit build. Also: Star Trek aliens, X-Men, the exalted career of Mark Coulier, and a visit to DDT SFX in Barcelona.
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COVER: ‘J-Nine’makeup, sculpted by Norman Cabrera and applied by Joel Harlow, on the set of Star Trek Beyond from Paramount Pictures, Skydance, Bad Robot, Sneaky Shark and Perfect Storm Entertainment
Page 6. THE ALIENS OF BEYOND Part I: Makeup effects on the final frontier, with Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow taking alien prosthetics to another level in the newly released Star Trek Beyond, including alien scavenger Jaylah (Sofia Boutella), a crab alien, Wadjet (Dan Payne), Tyvanna (Anita Brown), Ensign Syl (Melissa Roxburgh), Natalia (Ashley Edner), a starfleet official character makeup on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Joel Harlow himself, with his wife and Cindy, as Vulcan ambassadors in makeups applied by Richie Alonzo and Felix Fox!
Page 28. THE MAKING OF A MAESTRO: Double Academy Award-winner Mark Coulier talks through his stellar career with a look at his work on productions such as Merlin, Sunshine, Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Arabian Knights, the Mummy, Eastenders, and World War Z, characters like Lord Voldermort and Aragog for the Harry Potter films, and makeups on Will Ferrell for Zoolander II, Chris Hemsworth for In the Heart of the Sea, Shuna Sassi in Nightbreed, Tilda Swinton in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, and Idris Elba as Nelson Mandella in Mandella: Long Walk to Freedom
Page 48. DESIGNING THE X-MEN PART 1: Joe Nazzaro examines a decade of the best selling Marvel comic book franchise, starting with X-Men directed by Bryan Singer, with Gordon Smith in charge of the prosthetics including Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Toad (Ray Park), Sabertooth (Tyler Mane), and Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), then X2: X-Men United with the addition of Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) featuring makeup colouring by Charles Porlier, X-Men 3: The Last Stand with Angel (Ben Foster), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore), Juggernaut (Vinnie jones), and Beast (Kelsey Grammar) debuting with prosthetics by Spectral Motion. The first spinoff, X-Men Origins: Wolverine saw Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. take on the makeup effects including an 800-pound version of Kevin Durand as Blob, and the introduction of Deadpool
Page 64. A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Neill Gorton talks makeup, magic and movies with well-known photographer Deverill Weekes, unofficial documenter of the industry’s FX artists, showing fabulous personal portraits of artists and actors such as Dick Smith, Stuart Freeborn, Rick Baker, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Vincent Kehoe, Kabuki, Howard Berger, Greg Nicotero, Johnny Depp, Steve Johnson, Bill Corso, Nick Dudman, Guillermo del Toro, and Ron Perlman
Page 95. FX CRIBS: David Martí & Montse Ribé won an Academy Award for their work on Guilermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and have worked on a wealth of both Spanish and international films including Crimson Peak, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Orphanage, and Talk to Her. Here, they show us around the new airy central Barcelona space inhabited by their company DDT Efectos Especiales, and some large Orcas
Page 4. WORDS OF WISDOM: Damian Martin, Oscar and BAFTA-winning co-director of Australia’s Odd Studio sets the scene for this issue
Page 21. PRE-PAINTING ENCAPSULATED SILICONE PROSTHETICS: Leading Swedish prosthetics artist Göran Lundström takes us through his personal method for using cap plastic as a paint medium to paint onto cap plastic
Page 41. DIRECT FABRICATION OF 3D TRANSFERS: Shaun of the Dead Prosthetics Designer Stuart Conran on the timesaving technique of creating a 3D transfer without the need to sculpt, mould or cast
Pafe 56. COLOUR THEORY: Part three of transatlantic educators Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni’s close examination of colour theory and its importance in prosthetics. In this issue: creating realistic skin tones
Page 73. PROSTHETICS TECH SPEC: Make-up Effects Group’s Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou share their build of the fabulous creature suit and prosthetics for devilish Overlord leader Karellen, played by Charles Dance, as well as his alien counterpart Vindarten, played by Benedict Hardie, for Syfy Channel’s Childhood’s End
Page 80. A BRUSH IS A BRUSH IS NOT A BRUSH: Synthetic vs sable, which is more able? Siân Richards, award-winning makeup artist and founder of London Brush Company, evaluates this essential piece of kit and educates us as to how all brushes are not equal
Page 89. PROSTHETIC MOULD MAKING: In the second of a two-part tutorial, Neill Gorton completes the prosthetic mould making process by casting out a positive and moulding a prosthetic sculpture
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