SFX artists in Hollywood

 

Hey sweeties…

Today we have new adventure which discovering the most famous SFX makeup in Hollywood and the artists behind them:

The usage of specific makeup for any character to make you get into the movie mood and to convince the audience with certain thing let’s start our journey today with my fav film series ever “Harry Potter”:

1.    The artist behind it all was “Mark Coulier”, he’s a British makeup artist and prosthetic makeup expert. He worked also in X-Men and The Mummy Returning and he won many prizes like The Academy Awards and The BAFTA for the best makeup and hair for The Iron Lady. He was responsible for anything like: Harry’s Gilly weed gills; they took an hour and half to apply, Aunt Marge’s fat suit took 4 months to build and Lord Voldemort’s makeup which took 2 hours and 3 people, it was applied 70 times throughout the entire series and 50 of them were in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part 1&2.

2.    Our next stop is “Wonder” which was the makeup one of the success factors in this film to make you believe. “Arjen Tuiten” made it. The makeup took up to 90 minutes throughout several months and this makeup could take 3 hours but they had to compress the time. The young actor wore full silicone head, neck and face prosthetics to simulate the look of kids with Treacher Collins syndrome, who often try to hide their malformed ears.

3.    The third artist who impress us Oscar and Emmy winner “Joel Harlow” who worked in “Pirates of The Caribbean”, he worked on many characters.

4.    Bill skarsgård in “It” film chapter 2 took from Sean Sasom and Shane Zander 4 hours to apply and 30 minutes to remove and particularly they were the two artists applying his prosthetics each day.

5.    The Dark Knight “Joker’s makeup” was done by John Caglione worked with Conor O’Sullivan who won an Oscar for his makeup on Dick Tracy. They realized that the new version of the Joker wouldn’t be easy to be done because the new and uncomfortable terrain. “I always got the impression that it was self-inflicted,” said Caglione because he put his vision on it and tried hardly to make it looked different from the old version.

6.    “Maleficent” was done by the retired makeup artist “Rick Baker” and Angelina Jolie’s personal makeup artist “Toni G” who conceptu
alized her look. MAC makeup products were used in that look using Russian lipstick with lip gloss and to make the cheek bones looks real and get perfect complexion so they used powder blush ana a fix Sculpt & Shape Contour Palette, and Pro Longwear Concealer.   

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