How 'Pinocchio' Team Turned the Actor Into a Puppet Without VFX

Variety: Matteo Garrone’s retelling of “Pinocchio” got a surprise boost when his spin on the children’s classic made the Academy shortlist for hair and makeup. Rather than rely on visual effects, he called on Mark Coulier to realize his vision and transform the actor into the puppet who becomes a boy.

Promising Young Woman: How a Makeup Artist Transformed Carey Mulligan

Variety: As soon as Makeup Head Angie Wells received Emerald Fennell’s script for “Promising Young Woman,” she had notes to make. She noticed the different personas that Carey Mulligan’s Cassie goes through, especially when “she’s doing her hits; it wasn’t soft and pretty.”

Dain Yoon's Amazing Optical Illusion Body Art Reimagines Her Humanity

mymodernmet.com: Like many artists, Dain Yoon enjoys working with paint. But it’s not a canvas that she puts pigment to—it's her own body. Using an extensive palette of paints and brushes, she applies the pigment to her skin and transforms herself into amazing optical illusions.

4 Makeup Artists of Color Share Their Broadway-Inspired Halloween Looks

Playbill: Broadway fans know that donning theatre-inspired looks is a year-round activity, but Halloween is a great excuse to do it even more. Women of Color on Broadway Inc. (who you got to know earlier this year) and MAC Cosmetics teamed up to showcase four up-and-coming makeup artists of color showing off looks inspired by notable Broadway characters, in efforts to amplify diversity within the next generation of behind-the-scenes theatre professionals.

More Diversity Among Casts Needs More Diversity in Makeup Artists

Variety: Waiting for production to restart, makeup artist Kirin Bhatty has spent her summer giving makeup consultations via FaceTime, preparing stars including Geraldine Viswanathan of “The Broken Hearts Gallery” to look their best for drive-through red carpets and Zoom interviews.

It's Time to Overhaul the Blackface (or Blueface) Puppet in Petrouchka

Dance Magazine: When Michel Fokine's ballet Petrouchka premiered in 1911, none of the (largely white) audience members in Paris objected to the big, dumb puppet being portrayed as a Moor in blackface. Stravinsky's music was stirring, Fokine's choreography was ground-breaking, and Alexandre Benois' sets and costumes were transporting. Nijinsky's portrayal of Petrouchka, the puppet with a human soul, tugged at the heart.

Makeup Tutorial with ABT's Connor Holloway

Dance Magazine: Watch American Ballet Theatre corps dancer Connor Holloway's Euphoria-inspired makeup tutorial!

Thomas Burman and Martin Samuel to Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at 2020 Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Awards

www.prweb.com/releases: Thomas Burman, Emmy®-winning make-up artist, and Martin Samuel, Oscar®-nominated film and celebrity hair stylist, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) honoring outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials, and live theater. The black-tie awards gala returns to the NOVO by Microsoft in L.A. Live on Saturday, January 11, 2020.

Blackface on Stage: The Complicated History of Minstrel Shows

New York Theater: The strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam attests to the peculiar place of the practice in American culture and the special outrage it provokes: Far more commentators condemned the blackface than even mentioned the figure in the white robe and hood of the Ku Klux Klan.

Photo Coverage: 30 Designers Show Off PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Masks

www.broadwayworld.com: The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its unprecedented 30th Anniversary in New York City on January 26, 2018. To mark the occasion, 30 designers were tasked to transform the look of the iconic Phantom mask -originally designed by Maria Björnson and realized by milliner Rodney Gordon - in their own aesthetic vision for a one-of-a-kind mask.

Behind the Mask

Make-Up Artist Magazine: It’s been four decades since writer/director John Carpenter told the story of Halloween, about a masked, mental hospital escapee named Michael Myers, who terrorizes the small town of Haddonfield and resourceful babysitter named Laurie Strode (played by Jamie Lee Curtis). The low-budget horror film was a sleeper hit, prompting a string of sequels and even a pair of remakes.

The International Gymnastics Federation Bans Cat Makeup For Gymnasts

deadspin.com: This morning, gymnastics fans awoke to the news that the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) had solved one of the most pressing problems facing the sport. No, they didn’t decide to address the abuse that has been running rampant on the women’s side of the sport for decades. Instead, FIG finally tackled the problem of one gymnast wearing cat makeup in her floor routine.

Team Turned Rami Malek Into Freddie Mercury for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Variety: The first time makeup, hair and prosthetics designer Jan Sewell met Rami Malek while prepping for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” she spent a lot of time studying his face. But she was also gauging how far the actor was willing to go to look like Freddie Mercury, the iconic rock star he plays in the Queen biopic from Fox, which opens in theaters Nov. 2.

The Legendary Tom Savini on a Career of Special Effects Wizardy and Unforgettable Horror

Interviews | Roger Ebert: Special-effects wizard Tom Savini is most famous for his collaborations with fellow Pennsylvanian George Romero, whose “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead” are still two of the most influential modern horror films. But Savini’s work as a character actor and director continues to inspire new generations of horror fans. Savini—a Vietnam vet who received an unprecedented fellowship from Carnegie Mellon’s acting and directing program—continues to oversee a school for aspiring make-up artists in Monessen, PA (which has been open for almost 18 years now).

An Award Night in Two Acts

Make-Up Artist Magazine: The New Zealand Body Art Showcase and Awards for 2018 celebrated a sold out 10th Anniversary show at Auckland’s Q Theatre’s Rangatira on Sept. 1. At the New Zealand Body Art Showcase and Awards the focus is on the performance as well as the artistry.

I Went Undercover As An Amusement Park Zombie And Scared Everyone To Death

jezebel.com: I arrive at Six Flags Great Adventure, in Jackson, N.J., one extremely hot October day, already a scary human version of myself: I’m slightly hungover, the smell of a sausage, egg, and cheese bodega bagel on my breath, and the internal darkness of someone who just witnessed, through tears, Brett Kavanaugh get confirmed the day before. I don’t really want to fuck with anyone, and I don’t really want anyone to fuck with me.

Mortal Engines' Gross Excuses to Change Hester's Appearance

The Mary Sue: Mortal Engines, the upcoming Peter Jackson-produced epic based on the book series by Philip Reeve, is slated to arrive on December 14, and one of the biggest controversies around it involves the film version of the character Hester Shaw.

Working in the Theatre: Wigs

Stage Directions: Everyone knows that great wig work is important to the artistic process of creating theater, but few know just how much work and skill go into producing the incredible design and execution of a wig. In this Working in the Theatre video from the American Theatre Wing, Paul Huntley, one of the most esteemed wig designers (and a past Tony Honoree), shares his career journey and spotlights the creative, economic, and technical processes of working in the hair and wig department.

I spent a night terrifying people at ScareHouse. Here's what you need to know about your tormentors

Elevating the news in Pittsburgh: The first unfortunate souls arrived in our murder room shortly after 7 p.m.

They shuffled down the darkened hall, past the burning corpse, through chains hung from the ceiling. They clung together and stepped lightly, almost in unison. Necks swiveled. Shoulders hunched.

Body Painting the World Over

Make-Up Artist Magazine: We all know the make-up industry is a beast and becoming a make-up artist requires an insane amount of persistence, passion and innovation. Any time make-up artists trudge their way through an overgrown forest of obstacles, rise to the canopy and begin to spread their wings so to speak … we here at Make-Up Artist magazine take note. Because, like, that’s totally not an easy thing to do.