The Apes Issue! Apes are an industry staple; we look at influential ape movies and some of the many primate suits built as passion projects. Also: a career retrospective of revered film sculptor Don Lanning, alien prosthetics, and an insight into how some of the industry’s key awards work including the Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAS.
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COVER: Stan Winston in fully animatronic ageing ape makeup with actor-driven facial articulation, a new method he devised for early tests on Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001)
Page 8. ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES: As Planet of the Apes celebrates its 50th anniversary, we look back over precious interviews with some of the film’s original makeup team, including Tom Burman, Dan Striepeke, Eddie Butterworth, Ken Chase, Darryl McIntyre, Maurice Stein, and of course the great John Chambers who was presented with an honorary Oscar in 1969 for his contribution to film, 12 years before the Academy Award for Best Makeup was introduced in 1981
Page 23. ANALYSING AWARDS: Louise Tutt and Neill Gorton give us an insight into the workings of some of the industry’s key awards including the BAFTAS, Oscars, and Emmys, and recent Oscar winner David Malinowski explains the experience of winning a major gong for his work on Gary Oldman’s makup as Winston Chruchill in Darkest Hour, an award he shared with fellow makeup FX artists Kazu Hiro and Lucy Sibbick
Page 42. EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT: BAFTA and Royal Television Society award-winning Millennium FX takes on the making of multiple mutants for The Titan including major prosthetics on Sam Worthington as Lt. Rick Janssen, Nathalie Emmanuel as W.O. Tally Rutherford, Nathalie Poza as Cpt. Vita Ramos, Aleksandar Jovanovic as Sgt. Anton Werner, and Aaron Heffernan as Cpt. Zane Gorskiplus, as well as a neck wound appliance for an operation sequence and more, featuring sculptures by Gary Pollard and 2D concepts by Chris Goodman
Page 56. THE ULTIMATE APE SUIT: Industry giant Rick Baker discusses an aspect of his magnificent career that he revisited time and time again, the ape suit, including in The Thing with Two Heads; King Kong; Kentucky Fried Movie; The Incredible Shrinking Woman; Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; Gorillas in the Mist; Mighty Joe Young; and Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes
Page 68. THE MAN IN THE MAGIC STORE – Part 1: Master sculptor Don Lanning talks about his journey into the industry, his passion for sculpture, and the joy of teaching, with a look at his work on Star Trek Beyond, Hellboy, Quarantine, Blade 3, Vanilla Sky, and Lost in Space
Page 79. APE SUIT ARTISANS: An insight into the appeal of apes and the challenge of building primate suits – an industry staple and the subject of many prosthetics artists’ passion projects – with contributions from Chris Walas, Tom Woodruff Jr. and Neill Gorton
Page 98. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: Stan Winston’s series of cutting-edge makeup techniques developed for Planet of the Apes, such as his incredible animatronic ape meakups including a look at an early servo-driven gorilla head, his concept for “actor-driven facial articulaltion” prosthetics, and ape ageing makeups, with concept designs by Mark ‘Crash’ McCreery, and wonderful images of Stan and Matt Winston testing the makeups together
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: David Malinowski, winner of a 2018 Academy Award for Darkest Hour, sets the scene for this issue
Page 32. PROSTHETICS TECH SPEC: Vincent Van Dyke on the creation of the industry’s newest gorilla suit
Page 91. CREATING BURN SCAR EFFECTS – Part 1: Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni share their intricate technical knowledge of burn scar anatomy and how to emulate it with prosthetics for stage and screen
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