Issue 9 serves up a double helping of Stephen King with prosthetics for The Dark Tower, and his infamous clown, Pennywise, alongside makeups for alien races, a zombie boy, a famous scientist, and a whole cast of physically challenged characters. Also learn from tutorials on latex appliances, flat moulds, and blood blasters!
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COVER: L’Rell played by Mary Chieffo, Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access) 2017. Makeup sculpted by Michael O’Brien and painted by Tim Gore for Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page’s Alchemy FX Studios
Page 8: DEEP SPACE CHUCKLES: Academy Award-winner Howard Berger discusses KNB’s makeup and creature effects for TV space opera The Orville, including a Krill alien makeup applied on series creator Seth MacFarlane by Tami Lane, hundreds of other Krill appliances and dozens of background alien races, the Bortus makeup and two-piece suit for actor Peter Macon, ship ‘smut peddler’ Unk (Carey Jones), Ock’or, one of the captives of a Calivon Zoo, a Tolosian-like alien, a Moclan doctor, artificial life form Isaac (Mark Jackson), and Justin the Ogre (Patrick Cox)
Page 26. THE PERILS OF PENNYWISE: Veteran makeup effects artist Bart J. Mixon looks back at his work on the original It mini-series adapted from Stephen King’s novel, with the inimitable Tim Curry in the lead role. Includes a section on the 2017 It movie with Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in prosthetics by ADI and Sean Sansom
Page 40. SKINS – MAKEUP FX ON A MISSION: Óscar del Monte on the provocative looks that challenge their audience in a risky exposé of social acceptance from controversial director Eduardo Casanova (Bath Time, La misma piel, Fidel), with prosthetic facial deformities created for all the main characters including Samantha (Ana Polvorosa), Laura (Macarena Gómez), Guille (Jon Kortajarena), and Ana (Candela Peña), plus a mechanical mermaid tale and a bear’s head
Page 48. BRAIN DEAD: Akihito Ikeda (Hulk, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) shares his process for creating the Zombie Boy-inspired masterpiece for actor Mick Ignis that stole the show at Monsterpalooza 2016
Page 56. INVISIBLE GENIUS: Davina Lamont and Göran Lundström on their ageing and character work for National Geographic’s anthology period drama series Genius, encompassing turning both Johnny Flynn and Geoffrey Rush into Albert Einstein, Richard Topol into Fritz Haber, Nancy Crane into Eleanor Roosevelt, and T. R. Knight into J. Edgar Hoover
Page 72. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: Todd McIntosh’s work on the little known and short lived 2004 revival of Dark Shadows featuring a vampire called Barnabas Collins, due to be played by Alec Newman, featuring concept designs by John Wheaton, witch makeup on Ivana Milicevic as Angelique, and dummy by Andrew Clement’s Creative Character Engineering
Page 76. STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – THE ART OF ALCHEMY FX: Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page explain the cutting-edge creativity that abounds in the adventures of the spaceship Discovery including makeups on Mary Chieffo as L’Rell, Chris Obi as T’Kuvma, Kenneth Mitchell as Kol, Doug Jones as Saru, and James Frain as Sarek, plus Kingon armor and weapons
Page 89. LEADING LADIES OF MAKEUP EFFECTS: Excerpt from a brand new book by Patricia L. Terry and Gary Christensen showcasing the award-winning women of our craft with and excerpt about Academy Award-winner Monste Ribé
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Eryn Krueger Mekash, eleven-time award-winner and 30-time Emmy-nominee sets the scene for this issue
Page 19. LATEX APPLIANCES: Part 2: in the second of a multi-part tutorial, Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni take us through the process of applying the latex prosthetic nose they made in part one
Page 35. LET’S MAKE A BLOOD BLASTER! Mike Mekash, Emmy-winner for American Horror Story: Roanoke, proves you don’t need a lot of money to make effective devices with a blood blaster costing less than $50!
Page 65. FLAT MOULD PROSTHETICS – Part 1: In the first 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 92. PROSTHETICS TECH SPEC: Clinton Aiden Smith breaks down Cosmesis Advanced Prosthetics Studio’s work on Stephen King’s self-proclaimed magnum opus The Dark Tower, starring Idris Elba, with makeups on actors Matthew Van Leeve, Owen MacRae, Kabelo Chalatsane, Tristann Wrench, Russ McCarroll, Reon Van Der Watt, and Lance Elliot
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