Issue 17

Issue 17 Winter 2019

£6.95

This issue has a retrospective feel as we look back at extraordinary histories: of careers, long-running shows, a body of connected work assembled over time, the history of life casting itself, and even a film based on long term Kazakh political careers. Definitely one for the history books!

Look out for

  • The first part of a two-part interview with industry legend Rick Baker examines his formative years, including a pivotal meeting with Dick Smith
  • Spectral Motion re-team with Guillermo del Toro to create the extraordinary principal creatures for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Australia’s Make-up Effects Group (M.E.G.) co-founders Paul Katte and Nick Nicolaou on creating demons for the dark world of the Nekromancers

Features

Rick Baker’s formative years and influences / Spectral Motion’s Mike Elizalde on Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / Make-up Effects Group (M.E.G.) on creating demons and deformities for Nekrotronic / Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow’s collection of Lovecraftian characters developed over a 20-year period / Academy Award-winner Mark Coulier on Kazakh political drama The Leader’s Path.

Tutorials and tech specs

Body paint champion Nix Herrera shows us the fundamentals of how to make your own body art stencils to save time and deliver great detail, Neill Gorton takes us through sculpting the human ear at a twice-life-size, and Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni use the ear cores they made for Issue 16 to create ear tip appliances in foam latex.

Plus: wisdom from multi award-winner Neill Gorton, part one of a two-part feature about the origins, development and influence of life casting traces the history of death masks, and Todd Masters remembers leading his young makeup effects team on Tales From the Crypt as HBO’s horror anthology celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Inside this issue

Past Issues