Journey to Westeros in issue 16 with our extended feature on Game of Thrones, and stop off on the way for swamps, floods, snap moulds, steampunk, lookalikes, the beautiful fine art of Oscar-winner Wesley Wofford, and extreme old age makeup by fellow Oscar-winner Joel Harlow, plus discover makeup FX museums and more!
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COVER: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as The Mountain in Game of Thrones – Season Eight (HBO). Makeup by BGFX; applied by Barrie Gower, Duncan Jarman, Paul Spateri and Patt Foad
Page 8. MAKING MANX: Joel Harlow takes us through five stages of ageing makeup on Zachary Quinto for his role as Charlie Manx, a century-old life energy vampire, in the AMC drama NOS4A2. Featuring sculps by Richie Alonzo and Joey Orosco in the style of Dick Smith’s old age makeups, as well as a demon child puppet
Page 20. UNSUNG HERO, PART 2: The second instalment of our profile of Academy Award-winner Wesley Wofford’s stellar dual careers in movie prosthetics and fine art sculpture including his work on Ali, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Gary Oldman as Mason Verger in Hannibal, Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, and Sam Neill in Bicentennial Man, Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, Julia Roberts in America’s Sweethearts, Ray Liotta in Point of Origin, Sam Neill in The Dish, and Robert De Niro in American Hustle, as well as a dummy head for Jack Black in The Jackal
Page 28. The B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: Steve Johnson on the Marvel movies that got away, covering Fantasic Four, Hulk, and Ghost Rider, and featuring concept designs by Constantine Sekeris
Page 32. MAKEUP FX MUSEUMS: Five international museums exhibiting makeup FX memorabilia discuss the fascination of material effects and the challenge of preserving prosthetics, with example exhibits from such productions as Blade, Wolves, The Wolfman, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Babylon 5, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hellboy, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Wizard of Oz, Men in Black II, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, X-Men: First Class, and Alien vs Predator
Page 46. GAME OF THRONES: Barrie Gower on his wild ride through seasons four to eight of the biggest TV show in the world inlcuding Children of the Forest makeups on Kae Alexander and Rachelle Beinart, The Three-Eyed Raven on Struan Rodger (later played by Max von Sydow), a White Walker and the Night King on Vladimir Furdik (Night King previously played by Richard Brake), Carice van Houten as and aged Melisandre, Michael Byrch as a hero wight taken to King’s Landing by The Hand, Stone Men with greyscale disease including Iain Glen as Jorah, and The Mountain played by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, plus burn effects for the dragon attack on King’s Landing, White Walker, wight, zombie, and casulty prosthetics for huge battle scenes including the Battle of the Bastards in the War of the Five Kings where Jon Snow and Sansa Stark retake Winterfell, the massacre of Hardhome, the Battle of Winterfell, and many more
Page 60. POLITICAL PROSTHETICS: Joe Nazzaro talks to Adrien Morot and Barrie Gower about their superb lookalike makeups in Showtime’s new mini-series The Loudest Voice featuring Russell Crowe as Fox News chief Roger Ailes, Simon McBurney as Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch, and Sienna Miller as Beth Ailes
Page 68. RE-MAKING THE MUCK MONSTER: Justin Raleigh and Fractured FX on getting into their swampy stride on one of DC Comics’ most beloved characters, Swamp Thing, with Derek Mears in the title role in full body suit and prosthetics
Page 90. CRAWL: Oscar-nominee Adrien Morot takes on a MacGyver-like challenge for Alexandre Aja’s hurricaine-zone drama that involved building alligators, a full-sized mechanized tail, heads and other gator parts, alligator eggs and hatchlings, photo-realitsic victim dummies inlcuding a likeness dummy of actor Ross Anderson as cop Wayne Taylor, and a dog puppet (please note, the dog puppet on the left of page 98 is not Morot’s work)
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Sarah Gower, Primetime Emmy winner and co-director of BGFX sets the scene for this issue
Page 40. AKIHITO’S TRE KANA: A technical insight into the design and build of Tre Kana, the amazing steampunk character created by renowned Japanese makeup FX artist AKIHITO (Deadpool 2, Alice in Wonderland, The Hills Have Eyes, The Mist) for Monsterpalooza 2019
Page 82. CREATING CORRECTED CORES: Our transatlantic educators, Stuart Bray and Tood Deberceni, demonstrate the crucial process of modifying snap moulds to make customised cores for a multi-piece, overlapping prosthetic makeup
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