This issue has a retrospective feel as we look back at the career of industry icon Rick Baker, 30 years of Tales from the Crypt, Joel Harlow’s 20-year project in honour of H.P. Lovecraft, work by Mark Coulier for a film based on long-term Kazakh political careers, and the history of life casting itself. Definitely one for the history books!
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COVER: Innsmouth Fishwife modelled by Ashley Edner. Personal project by Joel Harlow inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
Page 8. TERRIFYING TALES: Spectral Motion re-team with Guillermo del Toro for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, based on the series of childrens’ horror stories by Alvin Schwartz with illustrations by Stephen Gammell, to create characters including Harold the Scarecrow (Mark Stegar), a Toeless Corpse, the Jangly Man (played by contortionist Troy James), the Pole Lady, and ageing makeup on Lorraine Toussaint as Lou Lou
Page 26. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MONSTER-MAKER, PART 1: The first of a two-part interview with industry giant Rick Baker about his autobiography Metamorphosis examines his formative years, including a pivotal meeting with Dick Smith, and his work on productions such as The Exorcist; Octaman; Caribe; Thriller (featuring Michael Jackson’s werewolf creature); An American Werewolf in London (featuring the iconic change-o-head for the werewolf transformation), Greystoke:The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; Gremlins 2: The New Batch; Gargoyles; Men in Black and Men in Black II; The Ring; and Planet of the Apes, as well as some of his personal projects
Page 39. GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS: Todd Masters remembers leading his young makeup effects team on Tales From the Crypt as HBO’s long-running horror anthology celebrates its 30th anniversary, featuring makeups on Margot Kidder for the episode ‘Curiosity Killed’, Tim Curry for ‘Death of Some Salesman’, Steve Buscemi for ‘Forever Ambergris’, Rachel Ticotin for ‘Staired in Horror’, Martin Sheen for ‘Well Cooked Hams’, and Tim DeZarn, Jada Pinkett, and Dick Miller for ‘Demon Knight’, as well as an ice vampire for ‘Comes the Dawn’, demons for ‘Demon Knight’, a change-o-head puppet of Angie Everhart for ‘Bordello of Blood’ and a dummy head of John Schuk
Page 51. NEKROTRONIC: Australia’s Make-up Effects Group (M.E.G.) co-founder Paul Katte on creating the demons and deformities that inhabit the dark world of the Nekromancers, including creature suits for the Portal Demon and the Finnegan Demon, the latter in precoloured red foam using a pigment formula originally designed for Hellboy by Roland Blancaflor, plus the possessed head of Uncle Dave (Berynn Schwerdt), makeup for undead ghost Rangi (Epine Bob Savea), demon possession makeups and demon victim prosthetics
Page 70. A JOURNEY TO INNSMOUTH: For the first time in one place, we’re proud to present Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow’s denizens of Innsmouth; a collection of Lovecraftian characters created over twenty years, featuring characters such as Charlie Tuna, an Innsmouth Elder, a Fishwife modelled by Ashley Edner, The Vagrant modelled by fellow Emmy-winning artist Ron Pipes, and Barnabas Marsh modelled by leading industry sculptor Mikey Rotella
Page 90. THE LEADER’S PATH: Academy Award-winner Mark Coulier on the amazing lookalike makeups in this Kazakh political drama, including on actor Murat Akhmanov as Predisent Nursultan Nazarbayev, actress Gulnara Dzhakupova as the First Lady Sara Nazarbayeva, actor Azamat Satybaldy as politician Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Nurzhan Tutov as Chinese ex-President Jiang Zemin, plus shooting in temperatures low enough to freeze Pros-Aide!
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Emmy-winner Robert Kurtzman, makeup FX maestro, film director, producer and screenwriter sets the scene for this issue
Page 22. ANATOMICAL SCULPTURE EXERCISE: Neill Gorton takes us through sculpting the human ear at a twice-life-size to promote anatomical accuracy
Page 46. AN INTRODUCTION TO STENCILS: Former world airbrush body paint champion Nix Herrera shows us how to make your own body art stencils to save time and deliver great detail
Page 62. A VERY INTIMATE PORTRAIT, PART 1 – A HISTORY OF CASTING DEATH: The delicate process of life casting yields very personal results. We trace the timeline of death masks, from prehistoric plastering and the ancient world of Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during the 14th century B.C., and the boy King Tutankhamun, to the death masks of Edward III and Henry VII in the Middle Ages, the skeletons of Pompeii, the death mask myth of Abraham Lincoln, and into modern life casting with Dick Smith’s open-eye life cast of Linda Blair for her makeup as Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist
Page 82. CREATING EAR TIP APPLIANCES: Our transatlantic educators Stuart and Todd use the ear cores they made for Issue 16 to create two styles of ear tip appliance in foam latex
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