Prosthetics Magazine - Issue 17 - Winter 2019

PROSTHETICS Magazine is published by internationally acclaimed make-up FX designer and teacher Neill Gorton.

Content includes articles about screen prosthetics, make-up FX and related fields, in-depth interviews with the industry's leading global practitioners, technical information about the materials used in the craft and a fabulous collection of detailed tutorials by highly accomplished artists. This almost 100-page magazine is packed full of information you won't want to miss.

PROSTHETICS MAGAZINE ISSUE #17 - WINTER 2019

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
• 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
• Todd Masters remembers leading his young makeup effects team on Tales From the Crypt as HBO’s horror anthology celebrates its 30th anniversary