Werewolves, zombies, and animal-children abound in our first bumper issue! 3D modelling and 3D printing tutorials show technology working with traditional techniques, we celebrate the career of Gino Acevedo, a pioneer of this hybrid practice, and the past meets the present in ‘A Family Portrait’, a personal project that’s a privilege to share.
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COVER: Athena Perample as the Alpha Queen in Army of the Dead (Netflix/Stone Quarry 2021). Prosthetic Makeup by Fractured FX Inc., prosthetic application by David Dupuis and Sabrina Castro. Image by Clay Enos
Page 8. ARMY OF THE DEAD: Justin Raleigh and the Fractured FX team create a legion of zombies for Zack Snyder’s Las Vegas heist movie including zombie makeups on Richard Cetrone as Zeus, Athena Perample as The Alpha Queen, numerous Shamblers on actors such as Alexander Ward and Justin Patterson, and a zombie horse built by Gabe Bartalos and his team at Atlantic West Effects
Page 26. JUPITER’S LEGACY: Academy Award-winner Howard Berger and KNB EFX Group take the lead in bringing a new generation of superheroes and characters to life including Brainwave (Ben Daniels), Blackstar (Tayler Mane), Reaver (Rob Archer), The Utopian (Josh Duhamel), and The Flare II (Petra Small)
Page 36. A FAMILY PORTRAIT: Berlin’s Twilight Creations collaborate with artist Andreas Mühe on a deeply personal project to make hyperrealistic re-creations of his family members, featuring beautiful scuplures by Kate Hill, Paul Spateri, and Colin Jackman
Page 44. ANTLERS: Meet the teams behind the creation of the Wendigo and its victims for the new supernatural horror produced by Guillermo del Toro, with the title creature built by Legacy Effects for performer Dorian Kingi, and the makeup effects handled by Lindala Schminkedn FX, whose tasks included degenerative zombie-stlye looks for Frank Weaver (Scott Haze), and a gory dummy body of Principal Booth (Amy Madigan) created by Jamie Salmon, Jackie Seo, and Chris Clark
Page 54. CREATURE CREATORS: Heather Wixson interviews the industry’s greatest monster makers for a new book series, with content from the likes of Tom Burman, Lance Anderson, Tony Gardner, Howard Berger, Screaming Mad George, Matt Rose, Dough Drexler, and Ve Neill to name just a few
Page 58. FROM HOLLYWOOD TO MIDDLE-EARTH: An in-depth look at the career of pioneering hybrid artist Gino Acevedo including Alien 3, Death Becomes Her, Spawn, Godzilla, the Lord of the Rings trilogy for which his work on Gollum was pivotal, 30 Days of Night, and the Planet of the Apes trilogy, for which he was Creative VFX Art Director and Texture Supervisor on all three movies: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Page 82. SWEET TOOTH: Fractured FX’s enchanting animal-hybrid children for the Netflix fantasy drama series featuring Gus (Christian Convery), a half-boy, half-deer hybrid, a range of animal hybrid babies, and Bobby, a groundhog-like puppet built using a blend of animatronic, rod puppet, hand puppet, and CGI techniques
Page 102. VIKING WOLF: Jim Udenberg on creating the prosthetics for Norway’s first werewolf film that required a werewolf corpse for dissecting, a transformation on a teenage girl, a change-o-head inspired by An American Werewolf in London, and werewolf victim effects
Page 6. WORDS OF WISDOM: Don Lanning, master sculptor, character designer and inspirational teacher sets the scene for this issue
Page 20. A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO DIGITAL SCULPTING: Brad Greenwood shows us the basics of what 3D modelling software has to offer
Page 74. 3D PRINTING FOR PROSTEHTIC CREATION: Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni share their experience of incorporating 3D printing into the pipeline for creating prosthetic makeup
Page 94. PROSTHETICS TECH SPEC: Dan Crawley (Deadpool, Ghostbusters, Black Panther, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) takes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back to their gritty roots with the power of prosthetics, experimenting with silicone but ultimately creating appliances in foam latex, run by industry veteran Bill Fesh
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