Monday, April 13, 2015
Excellent and exceedingly gruesome makeup tutorials
Boing Boing: Special effects makeup artist Kiana Jones (Aka Freakmo) creates great, super creepy makeup tutorial videos, featuring severed fingers, maggot infested eyes, slit throats, torn flesh, and fresh scars.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
These makeups make me want to vomit in only the best way possible. Looking at the pictures before the videos, I can't believe that there are actual people who understand and know how to make wounds that look so real. I wonder if this makeup artist created the looks by herself or if she based them off of actual wounds and took them to a more heightened place. It takes a lot of knowledge of the human body to be able to distort it in the way she's done; I wonder how many people have to be on a show like the Walking Dead to be able to coat everyone in makeup as cool and realistic as the makeup on the show. It would be awesome if there was an addition class to the makeup classes costumers are required to take that explores how to do more gruesome makeups like the ones that are on this article. It's sort of a niche market, but I don't think you'd find a lack of interest within the School of Drama.
How cool! It’s always fun to poke around youtube and see what I can find of fun fake fingers and gory makeup solutions. I watched two of the videos here- the bloody back of the hand and the neck wound, which turned out to be very different. The hand was interesting in that she used a lot of everyday, non-specialty materials to mold with, like q tips that she had de-fluffed, the cotton from their ends, eyelash glue, and wax. All of these things I would never have thought could be used to create tendons and flesh. Pretty cool! In the second video, it was really all about mold-making, which was really interesting. I could see how she used layers of silicone to color different pieces of flesh, which is pretty cool! The end result when she pulled it off was remarkably lifelike, and I could see how the inherent transparency of the silicone would help for these molds.
After being introduced to the concept of mold making in props class it’s interesting to see how the concept applies to really well crafted prosthetics. I watched the slit neck wound video and it was really interesting to see the in depth process involved in making each piece. There’s a huge consideration for the details in this work, I love how a basic understanding of anatomy really informs the process, as the layers of the windpipe, fatty tissue and outer skin all had to be poured separately in order to create the right layered base of coloration for the final makeup job. There are obviously a lot of little tricks to this trade, such as the smoothing of the silicone so there is a thin transparent layer around the edges for easy application and makeup, and the use of isotropic alcohol to dissolve excess silicone to create a seamless edge. Coming from a very basic understanding of mold making it was really neat to watch a more skilled artist show off what the greater capabilities of mold making are when you have the experience, materials, know how, and patience to create an amazingly realistic piece
I love this stuff so much. My favorite part of Jon Ward's props class was making prosthetic wounds. I love trying to make these kinds of things look as realistic as possible, so it was a great challenge as well as an exciting project. When I was in the class, I created a gash that I then treated and painted to look like a recent wound by ragged knife, and was pretty proud of the results. When I put it across my face it looked fairly realistic, which was my goal. I have always felt that working with prosthetics or as a makeup artist would be a really cool profession for me, because I've always really enjoyed this kind of work. I think that there are some makeup classes in my future here at CMU and I really look forward to taking them!
I’ve always been interested in special effects makeup and even had a huge hand in trying it out when I had a job doing make up for the largest haunted house in New Jersey a few years back. It wasn’t the most complex and detailed molds but it was definitely a great learning experience for me in terms of the creation and application of such makeup. This video was also extremely relevant because the materials used to make the molds were extremely similar to those that we used in the props mini in stagecraft class this past year. I am really into special effects makeup and it was interesting –as Fiona had pointed out previously- how in some of the videos that were in this article, people used every day items that you would never imagine to be used to create such complex artistic solutions and in others they used carefully hand crafted molds.
Post a Comment