Issue 13 steps out of the film industry to show pioneering medical work by Fractured FX, alongside comedy, ageing, and character prosthetics, a slimy creature, and the work of Hollywood makeup legend Jack Pierce. Plus: digital prosthetics, the ‘foreign object lodged in the body’ effect, and the biggest grossing slasher franchise of all time!
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COVER: Nick Castle as Michael Myers, aka The Shape, in Halloween (Universal Pictures 2018). Makeup FX by Christopher Nelson and Vincent Van Dyke
Page 8. UNMASKING THE SHAPE: Academy Award-winner Chris Nelson and FX makeup co-designer Vincent Van Dyke on creating the prosthetics for Halloween, and their approach to the all-important, controversial mask for Michael Myers, aka The Shape, played by Nick Castle and stunt man James Jude Courtenay. Other work included The Shape’s eye scar prosthetic and blown-off fingers, the dead Father (Brien Gregorie) dummy body, Officer Francis’ severed ‘pumpkin’ head (Officer Francis gave Chris Nelson the opportunity for a cameo appearance), the death makeup for Officer Richards (Charlie Benton), and over 100 other prosthetic pieces and elements
Page 28. THE KING OF COMEDY: Multi award-winner Louie Zakarian talks to Joe Nazzaro about his 25 wild years of heading up the Saturday Night Live makeup department, including makeups on Will Ferrell, Kenan Thompson, Beck Bennett, Mikey Day, Alec Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Aidy Bryant, John Mulaney, and Kate McKinnon
Page 38. SPORTING CHANCE: Blue Whale Studio’s Jonah Levy and Matthew Silva on the company’s superb ageing makeups for Uncle Drew, starring NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving in the title role, originally developed for a series of Pepsi Max commercials. Featuring makeups on JB Smoove as Angelo, Lisa Leslie as Betty Lou, and Nate Robinson as Boots
Page 48. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: Academy Award-winner Mark Coulier and his team’s work for Dracula Untold featuring the Master Vampire makeup on Charles Dance, Charlie Cox as former Roman emperor-turned-vampire Caligula – a character that was cut from the film completely – prosthetic sculpture concept for Luke Evans’ Dracula, and the wonderful makeup for the witch Baba Yaga, played by Samantha Barks – also cut from the final film – designed by Rob Bliss, sculpted by Duncan Jarman, and applied by Jarman, Mark Coulier, and Stephen Murphy
Page 52. MAKING THE MAKEUPS FOR GALVESTON: Two-time Emmy award-winner Jamie Kelman takes us through the tech of a demanding, single-handed job with incredible results on Galveston starring Ben Foster
Page 68. SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ: Millennium FX co-directors Rob Mayor and Kate Walshe on the company’s use of traditional creature techniques for the new Brit horror comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, for which they built a full wearable creature suit with animatronic head, and a breakaway head rigged for a shot where its brains are smashed in, a baby creature, a headless corpse, a dummy head of actor Michael Sheen, and other gore effects
Page 78. SURGICAL SPIRIT: Joe Nazzaro discovers how Justin Raleigh and his team at Fractured FX are taking medical simulation to a new level working with Boston Children’s Hospital
Page 87. JACK PIERCE: Scott Essman shines a light on the man who headed up Universal’s makeup department during its classic monster era, sharing images of his most famous makeups such as those on Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein, Lon Chaney Jr. taking the title role in The Wolf Man, Boris Karloff in The Mummy, and Bela Lugosi as Ygor in Son of Frankenstein
Page 94. BORDER: Göran Lundström talks us through the challenging makeup FX path that led to great results in critically acclaimed Swedish fantasy thriller Border, with actors Eero Milonoff and Eva Melander playing trolls, with beautifully realised naturalistic style makeups the fulfilled the brief of being believable in the real world
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Barrie Gower, triple Primetime Emmy-winner for Game of Thrones and co-director of BGFX, sets the scene for this issue
Page 20. DIGITAL PROSTHETICS: Esteemed digital sculptor Mike Defeo and Saturday Night Live triple Primetime Emmy-winning makeup FX artist Josh Turi break new collaborative ground creating a practical prosthetic using a digital process
Page 60. WHAT LIES BENEATH: Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni tackle a stalwart screen prosthetics effect that’s also become popular social media fodder: a foreign object lodged in the body
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