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Direct Applied Old Age Makeup – Part One
Neill Gorton
Direct Applied Old Age Makeup - Part OneThere are many ways to tackle old age makeup. In this lesson, we look at creating ageing effects using only direct applied makeup FX techniques and changes to hair and hair colour.
Direct Applied Old Age Makeup – Part Two
Neill Gorton
Direct Applied Old Age Makeup - Part TwoThere are many ways to tackle old age makeup. In this lesson, we look at creating ageing effects using only direct applied makeup FX techniques and changes to hair and hair colour.
Finishing and Texturing the Appliance Sculptures and Adding Flashing
Neill Gorton
Finishing and Texturing the Appliance Sculptures and Adding FlashingTaking the floated prosthetic sculptures and attaching them to the cores. Once attached all the finishing, detailing and texturing work is done before creating the cutting edge and adding areas of flashing in preparation for making a negative mould.
Floating and Flattening the Zombie Makeup
Neill Gorton
Floating and Flattening the Zombie MakeupDividing up the prosthetic sculpture into smaller pieces that will then recombine to create the finished character makeup. Where to make the joins and planning the overlaps. Once floated how to flatten and finish detailing the sculptures.
Floating the Sculpture and Preparing for Snap Moulds
Neill Gorton
Floating the Sculpture and Preparing for Snap MouldsA plastiline sculpture of a prosthetic makeup that has been done on a plaster cast prepared with a water-soluble separator will need to be “floated off” in order to prepare it for final moulding. Here we show the steps of both floating off and of preparing some of the sculptures for taking snap moulds which enable us to create overlapping appliances.
Full Head Life Cast in Silicone
Neill Gorton
Full Head Life Cast in SiliconeA full head life cast with ears out, taken in silicone and plaster bandage. The life casting silicone is augmented with a regular fast setting platinum silicone to increase tear strength and speed up the process.The two halves of the plaster bandage shell are separated with paper towel to enable the two halves of the plaster bandage cast to be applied and overlapped more quickly.
Half Mask – Casting the Display Bust in Silicone
Neill Gorton
Half Mask - Casting the Display Bust in SiliconeMaking a silicone casting from a plaster mould using the brush-up method and backfilling the cast with polyurethane foam that has has been mechanically bonded to the silicone.