There’s a theme of amazing re-creations in issue 21: reprises of character makeups, a homage to Darkness from Legend, life-size likenesses of horror heroes and reboots of the iconic Gill Man. Also: cutting-edge hybrid work, gory horror and humanoid pigs at the Salton Sea, plus a profile of industry giant Nick Dudman, and advice costing jobs!
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COVER: Eddie Murphy as Saul in Coming 2 America (Paramount Pictures/Amazon Studios 2021). Prosthetic makeup by Prosthetic Renaissance
Page 8. RETURN OF THE KING: Mike Marino and the Prosthetic Renaissance team create incredible character makeups for Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming 2 America to play beloved characers including Clarence, Saul, Randy Watson (all played by Murphy), Morris, Baba, and Reverend Brown (all played by Hall)
Page 24. A MATCH MADE IN HELL: Tim Martin adds his own twist to a devil makeup inspired by Tim Curry’s Darkness character in Legend, for a Match.com TV commercial
Page 38. RAISED BY WOLVES: A close look at Jaco Snyman’s innovative work on Ridley Scott’s series, using hybrid techniques (a combination of traditional and digital) to create androids, fire masks, and a humanoid creature in the series starring Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, and Abubakar Salim
Page 56. THE STAND: Toby Lindala’s Vancouver-based shop creates a heady mix of plague-infested bodies, gore, and superb ageing makeup to bring Stephen King’s apocalyptic novel to life for the CBS All-Access mini-series, featuring makeups on Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, and Ezra Miller as Trashcan Man
Page 68. THE B-SIDES: Film and TV prosthetics that didn’t make the screen with Joe Nazzaro. This issue’s subject: the many fruitless attempts to reboot the iconic Creature from the Black Lagoon, better known as the ‘Gill Man’
Page 74. A TALE OF MONSTERS AND MAGICIANS: One of the best-known names in the business, Nick Dudman, looks back at an illustrious, four-decade career including a number of the Star Wars films, Superman II, The Hunger, Legend, Willow, Judge Dredd, The Mummy, creating Jack Nicholson’s iconic Joker makeup for Batman, Mortal Kombat, Frankenstein Unbound, all the Harry Potter films from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001, to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011, Penny Dreadful, and many more..
Page 93. THE MAKEUP EFFECTS OF WILD BOAR: Barney Burman and Nick Reisinger on delivering mutant pig-men for Burman’s directorial debut set in a toxic, unchartered wasteland
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Barney Burman, Academy Award-winning makeup artist and filmmaker sets the scene for this issue
Page 30. A LIKENESS OF LEGENDS: Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow takes us through his process for creating incredible likeness display figures of horror icons including Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff
Page 51: HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?: Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni give invaluable guidance about what your time is worth and how to find a price for it
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