Issue 20

Issue 20 Winter 2020

£7.50

In this diverse issue, you’ll find prosthetics for new comedy and horror movies plus a time-hopping TV series, a stunning lookalike makeup and the concluding part of a multi-part airbrushing tutorial. This issue is also a product of the difficult times it was compiled in; you’ll notice a lack of reference to Covid-19 because we want you to escape the relentless stress of it for a while. Instead, you’ll find an inspiring 22-page article showcasing how 8 of the industry’s busy artists turned a negative into a positive and continued being creative.

Look out for

  • How the makeup FX team on Bill & Ted Face the Music tackled muscle suits, ageing makeups, reprising the Grim Reaper, creating a time-travelling robot and more
  • The story of the Swamp Thing TV series characters that fell victim to a surprise shutdown of filming in this issues B-Sides column
  • The makeup team on ambitious German sci-fi series Dark discuss the complex task of creating the prosthetic FX for three seasons of time-hopping drama

Features

New and Excellent Adventures: muscle suits, makeup FX and mirth on Bill & Ted Face the Music / The B-Sides: the Swamp Thing TV series characters that fell victim to a surprise shutdown of filming / Idle Hands: wonderful new prosthetic work created in these challenging times / The complex task of creating the prosthetic FX for German sci-fi series Dark / The coming of age of The Prosthetics Event with its move to Coventry’s award-winning Ricoh Arena / The creation of the hard-hitting prosthetics in Books of Blood, released on Hulu in October

Tutorials and tech specs

Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni give us exercises and insights with which to practice airbrushing techniques in the concluding part of their primer Airbrush-101, and Hollywood makeup FX artist Richard Redlefsen creates a stunning lookalike makeup of Mother Teresa.

Plus: wisdom from Academy, Primetime Emmy, Saturn and Guild Award-winner Joel Harlow who also takes us through the build of 8 brand new pieces of work created during the unheard-of industry downtime of the 2020 pandemic quarantine.

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