Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Behind the scenes with Hollywood's creature making wizards
Boing Boing: Immortal Masks and Immortal FX is a studio in Hollywood specializing in custom masks, creature suits, body armor, and prop fabrication. They use silicone to make durable, hyperrealistic masks and props for theme parks, haunted attractions, Halloween costumes, music videos, film, and television.
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Insider’s Video “Behind the scenes with Hollywood’s creature making wizards” or “How Masks Are Made For Hollywood”, featuring a company called Immortal Mask, is something I would watch on my own and not just for new comments. I’ve always been interested in movie magic like prosthetics, I was an avid watcher of the show Face Off on the SYFY channel. Face off was a competition featuring prosthetic artists who got eliminated after each week till there was one left. I love the idea of, as one of the guys from Immortal Masks describes being his favorite part of making prosthetics and masks, the whole “Frankenstein’s Monster process” watching your original sketch of a horrific creature go from that 2d rendering to a 3d mask/prosthetic. I got a chance at my old school to make my own cast of my own hand to make severed hands for my school’s production of Sweeney Todd and I had a lot of fun, I would love to experiment more with mold and casting in the future.
Before deciding management, I was looking forward to study make up for theatre and film, and learning how to do of this has a CRAZY curriculum. Especial effect make up is so mind blowing. I am super entertained by it and the amount of craft it requires. I was surprised to see that this company does not do a personal casting of the person who will be using the mask. This provides an even more realistic fit for the gear. With the CGI advancements we see less and less of this art in films. But I am glad to see that it is still used in theme parks and other industries. It’s not always cost effective, because it tends to be pricing, and the application might require a lot of time and staff. But so far CGI has not caught up entirely with the realism of this type of work.
I've always thought that masks and prosthetics are a really cool part of film and theater. They can really bring you into a world and make everything seems more real and allow for a full immersion into the characters. However, done wrong it can pull people out of the world. I love looking at the different tools that are used and the effects that each can produce because I have never worked with any of this and I think that I would maybe like to try it. It is really interesting to see how much time and effort goes into each piece because I know how long it took one of my freinds to make a fake head for our production of Macbeth and this is somewhat similar. She really hated having to individually insert an entire head of hair. This video is super cool and I may have to watch more prosthetics videos because this is really new to me.
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