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I would like some help please

  • 04-09-2006 5:05pm
    #1
    Cats4693
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    hey i did a diploma n tv and film production, now i wud like to switich and study special effects makeup. I was wondering if there was anywhere you could recomend. I googled it and alot of places you have to have a portfolio, i dont have one. Another course costs 3500 for about 4 months and i jus dont know if i can afford it. I would appriciate your advice, as my heart is in this big time. Plz stir me in the right direction.


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  • #2
    trendkill
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭trendkill


    Start from scratch all on your own... then go to America and enroll in Tom Savinis Course.


  • #3
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    if you dig back a bit, there' a group in cork doing filmmaking that specialize in special effects make up, contact them to see what advice they can give you.

    EDIT:

    wait a sec, thats you trendkill...Talk to this guy (points up) about special effects of that sort.


  • #4
    trendkill
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭trendkill


    When i was in st.johns, we were looking for a guy for especila fx make-up and prosthetics. There was a guy in the class that was good at it, but wouldn't do it for us. Our Set Design Lecturer, Don did a little bit of it, but thats as far as it went. Then that left us nowhere, so it was upto ourselves to teach ourselves. Lots on the internet, takes alot of practice and alot of mess. The carpet of a friends appartment is wrecked with Latex, lots of clothes too, and when alginate goes off, the smell!!!!. Then plaster paris... all the dust, dried plaster in carpet..... i could go on.. but its good fun. The first head cast we did, we didn't have foam latex... which is a must have for it to look good, so we just used normal latex, here is a link to pictures of our early attempts from last year for a zombie short.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8948558417366018434

    http://web.mac.com/deeconproductions/iWeb/Deecon%20Productions/SPECIAL%20FX_files/15-05-06_1414.jpg

    http://web.mac.com/deeconproductions/iWeb/Deecon%20Productions/SPECIAL%20FX_files/LESTA.jpg

    The last one was from along time ago, we used normal latex, but foam latex can be blended to the skin to look as one, completely seamless. But a new material to use is Prosthetic Grade Gelatin which can be made easily, its starting to take over from Foam Latex. (theres just something about crushed cow bones being put on someones face that stops me from using it though and eating jelly sweets... uhhhh!)


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