Prosthetics Magazine - Issue 18 - Spring 2020

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 #18 - SPRING 2020

It’s a fascinating melange of masterful work in this issue – reality TV and retrospectives, blockbusters and trailblazers, and of course some demons, nightmares, hauntings, and invisible friends. All your favorites, and the chance to gen up from the ground up on airbrushes – you’ll be spoiled for choice on what to look at first

Look Out For 

• The second of a two-part feature on the legendary Rick Baker, from Thriller through to The Grinch, Planet of the Apes, and beyond
• 1917 Oscar-nominated Tristan Versluis on dead bodies, war wounds, and animatronic blood gags for the acclaimed Sam Mendes ‘one-shot’, 360-degree, continuous action war film
• Makeup Effects team Dave and Lou Elsey create elaborate woman-into-man transformations for Bravo’s social experiment reality TV show, and act as on-camera mentors as well

Features

• Todd Tucker, Martin Astles and Doug Brown of Illusion Industries create creatures and makeup FX for Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real
• Dave and Lou Elsey take on extreme gender-bending real life disguise challenges for Bravo’s In A Man’s World
• Tristan Versluis on his Oscar-nominated FX work in 1917
• Joel Harlow’s take on demonic possession for CBS’s supernatural series Evil
• The second of our two-part celebration of Rick Baker’s life’s work
• Tom Savini: The Official Biography of The Sultan of Splatter
• Dr Sleep: Robert Kurtzman’s Overlook Hotel adventures in the sequel to the classic horror story The Shining

Tutorials and Tech Specs

• Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni’s first installment on airbrushes: both kinds of airbrushes deconstructed, and all you need to know to keep them working well

Plus

• Wisdom from Cosmesis Advanced Prosthetics Studio’s Clinton Aiden Smith
• The history of life casting in film special effects
• Pushing the envelope at the extreme end of face and body art