Academy Award Winning Special Effects Makeup Artist, Monster Maker & Animatronic Character Creator, co-founder of KNB EFX Group
FX wizard Richard Landon (Aliens, The Terminator, Jurassic Park) teaches you how to create cable-controlled tentacle mechanisms for your creature puppets.
After flying in directly from Hong Kong to start the course 2 weeks late - to what felt like the HOTTEST summer of my life! I can honestly say that I felt I was never going to be able to catch up. But here we are in my 3rd week and after the expert tutelage from our talented, experienced teachers, I can comfortably say that we are all in our creative element with numerous projects on the move and that I have never felt lost or behind! This week started with Glamour makeup, trading our subtle liquid based palette for a heavy grease based, fake eyelash powered bomb shell look. It was lots of fun, I can assure you - even after a minor lipstick explosion on my part (Sorry Azriel!!) We then created our film characters. Rachel impressed us all by creating dreadlocks in her own creative techniques, everyone really captured their characters through not only makeup but wig work, costume and hair. Wednesday we looked at the 1920’s Marcel wave look with the lovely Tanya, getting to use our hot rollers and Marcel clips. The week ended with work on our prosthetics with Zeb and Rachel moving onto mold-making at a record pace. My prosthetic is moving along, I must say I felt proud looking at the tension/muscular details in the forehead. This has been another amazing week and looking back on all of our work, we can’t help but feel proud at the progress we’ve made. Doing this course has been one of the best decisions I’ve made! Alex Guillot - Student
Group shots. All the costumes were sourced or made by the students as well.
Academy Award nominated Character Creator, Stan Winston protégé & Co-Founder of Legacy Effects
Animatronic Character Creation & Mechanical Creature Effects overview. Learn the basics of animatronics & mechanical character creation techniques from a master
The close quarters of a puppet workshop or a television production can create an atmosphere conducive to romance. Jim married his performing partner Jane Nebel, and several couples started their relationships behind the scenes at Henson. In a match made ...
Group shots. All the costumes were sourced or made by the students as well.
My name is Adam Dougherty and I make monsters! I’m a special effects artist and character designer for the company StudioADI.
Key Fabrication Artist at Stan Winston Studio/Legacy Effects
Animatronic Character Effects Mechanic for Legacy Effects | Stan Winston Studio "Lifer"
Special Effects Character Creator & Master Artist - Stan Winston Studio/Legacy Effects
