Tuesday, March 29, 2016
How Effects Artists Make Fake Wounds Look Real
sploid.gizmodo.com: Even the most dedicated of method actors usually aren’t keen on having half their face blown off for a role. So where do they turn to when they need to look battle-worn and bloody? A very talented props department.
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This was a great tutorial, but more for results and not so much process. The make-up artists are sure talented, and have a great understanding of the look of real wounds as this prosthetic was very believable. We, the viewers, watched the process sped up, but I could not help but wonder how long the actual making and application of one of these prosthetics takes. It seems for the molding of the wound itself, it took a few hours, and that was for only one. How long would it take to make multiple, or even a movie shoot? This prosthetic, when being removed, looked as though it was not usable after one time. I wonder if there is a different process for prosthetic wounds that are used multiple times? I really enjoyed the end of the video when the make-up artist showed that the wound had growth and could change once applied to the body. I would love to see that effect used in a shoot.
This article got me thinking about our make-up curriculum at CMU, and why we don't put more of an emphasis on it in the costume world? Make-up is such a huge part of our everyday lives, and characters that we present on stage. I find it a little odd that we only offer one class on it here at CMU.
WOAH. This is amazing. I think special effects make up is a whole other realm of wonderful possibilities that I one day wish to explore. I knew making wounds like that take a long time, but I didn't know that sometimes those sorts of jobs were done in the props shop-- I thought that was the job of the costumes department to do make up (since I know at CMU it's usually the costume designs who figure the makeup design out as well, and the costume designers take a makeup course). It really impresses me how much time it takes to create one prosthetic like the one in the video and it makes me wonder; does the prop shop have to create a brand new version of the wound EVERY single shoot? How much time would that possibly take?! And is there a more efficient way to conduct it because the creation of a new wound must take hours upon hours of prep work even before it goes on to the actor for the scene. I have a family friend who went to school for special effects makeup and the work that she's done is absolutely crazy. She's worked on several horror film sets and even showcased some work for Good Morning America, and it's really impressive how you really do need a concentrated program in order to pull off some fantastic fake wounds.
I’ve always been really impressed by prosthetic makeup, and I’ve always wanted to try it out. I’ve done some casting and molding, and I have some sculpture experience, but I know it would be really hard for me to paint something like this realistically. Outside of following a tutorial, I wouldn’t know what steps to take and what process to go through in order to get a good result. A lot of it seems to come down to seeing the nuances and details in color as well as gloss. If there is one thing I noticed in this video, it is that there are a lot of details that people don’t consciously notice, but do notice in the sense that they can tell if it is wrong. I think getting good at this sort of thing has a lot to do with being able to see those details, learning to replicate them then follows.
I loved this video! I have always had a fascination with fake wounds. One time, my freshman year of high school, one of the seniors demonstrated how to make a fake wound on my hand. I wore it for the rest of the day, which freaked out some people until I told them it was fake. Ever since then, I have watched videos about how to make fake wounds. This one was very good. One thing I noticed was how professional the materials were. I never knew that you could make a mold of a wound and make it out of silicone. I watched the video multiple times because of how good it was. The wound looked really real and I liked the touches of the sutures and staples; they made it much more gory and realistic. I think that it is amazing just how much work goes into these kinds of prosthetics. I am sure that this took hours to make, ehich makes it that much more impressive.
This fake wound os amazing. It looks really realistic and being able to see the process made it even cooler. So often when you’re watching a movie and there’s gore, it’s either CG or you have no idea how they did it. I especially thought the squeegee process was interesting, it was a quick thing, but I remember Jon Ward showing us how to make fake wounds and stressing how the sides should be thin, but not being able to do it. And using a squeegee with that extra rim would give you an almost invisible end to the tapering and really help smooth it all together. Her feathering and dissolving of the ends to smooth it together was also impressive. Even when the camera was zoomed way it you couldn't see the edge of the prosthetic. Also the amount of layers and materials she did to pull this all together was really cool to see, and a little overwhelming. So much went into this one wound and in the end it looked amazing.
This is AWESOME! I love how dedicated props departments are to realism! This prosthetic seriously makes my skin crawl. Something else I wanted to talk about is how this Is online! A ton of articles this week are concerning theatre and social media intertwining, and I think that is a very positive change, a change that can be seen in marketing of course, but also back stage with tutorials like this! When how to videos are realized they give all the little theatres an understanding of how to achieve high quality stuff. This applies to high school and just community theatres. It ups the quality expected in the entire field. I think soon enough there will even be tutorials on the expensive ways to achieve these effects and then the cheap ways to do it. Theatre is finally starting to think like a business, and get into every opening it can, and I am glad.
As sometimes happens on the blog, I just got caught in a 20 minute Youtube hole of watching her videos. And they are seriously captivating. I forgot when doing props and molds here at CMU that one of their largest uses in entertainment is the SFX department. I think that is amazing, and would love to try it out. From watching 4 of her videos, the process appears to be painstaking with precision in the chemistry, accurate sculpting and painted detail as all part of it. I just want to paint on skin and blood detail. I'm seriously considering buying a little tub of silicon and latex just to replicate her devil horn look for Halloween next year. BUt this stuff seriously takes time and patience. Like, if this was just one wound, how long does it take for say.. the Walking Dead to create a whole zombie, or even a horde.
Also, I agree with Jake. I really wish CMU would consider 1 class on stage makeup, or SFX makeup for the designers just to give a taste of what its like, or if they work in a smaller setting, have the experience as a costume designer to execute SFX makeup for a show. I know that its not really part of the curriculum but I really wish I had more experience in that field.
This is so disgustingly awesome! I think the art of transforming people’s bodies with prosthetics is so interesting. The art of making prosthetics is something I’m more aware of after I started watching the TV show Face Off, but I would love a chance to actually making something like this. It's great that I could give it a try given the right materials because there are so many tutorials online now, so you can learn just about anything. If I had enough time I wonder if I could take a class in making prosthetic makeup? Or is it the kind of thing that is generally a self-taught art? Either way, seeing the level of dedication that went into this piece, it would clearly require a lot of time and concentration to learn to do well. While I might not have the time now, or ever, to develop this skill, I have a huge amount of respect for the artists who create amazing, creepy, fascinating work like this knee.
COOOOL. There are so many people out there that make these wound videos and tutorials, but the addition of the real sutures and surgical staples make it look just that much more real. What is amazing to me is that we have learned how to use all of these tools and molding plastics, and it's not impossible to recreate these ourselves. It's a great combination of props and makeup skills that bring this stuff to life, and like a true props artisan anything that can be used to make it look right has been added in, complete with real sutures and some lube to make it look wetter. I would love to see how they manufacture wounds and things like this for tv and film, where the wounds would get reused over and over and over again over the days of shooting, and have to look the same. Or if a would is pictured in the healing process, how many different versions of the same injury would it take to make the would look like it is healing over time? The durability and continuity issue is something else I would love to learn about more.
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