#special effects

[brokehorrorfan]

A24 has released Beauty of the Beast, a “transformation manual” by special effects makeup artist Emily Schubert (Super Dark Times, Good Time). Priced at $44, the 8x11 book features an embossed gloss-laminated softcover.

It contains 180 pages of step-by-step instructions recreating for key looks, including alive, dead, young, old, bald, hairy, bony, and bloody; along with a primer on essential skills like creating a scar, removing tattoos, faking swat, covering pimples, applying a bald cap, applying a prosthetic; and more.

More than a makeup book, Beauty of the Beast is a transformation manual by special effects makeup artist Emily Schubert. Learn how to create a scar, remove a tattoo, and make someone look decades younger—or like a corpse. Based on Schubert’s years of experience in the film industry, this book is both a crash course in the world of SFX makeup and a portal into how you can manipulate the human face to tell a story.

[mockingjaysnakes]

PROSTHETIC MAKE-UP.

— "test footage from the on camera head shave of Coriolanus, probably the most nerve wracking effect we created for the film".

[probablyasocialecologist]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

[staud]

VFX work behind The Terror (2018) – by Universal Production Partners

[prokopetz]

To be fair, there are perfectly practical filmmaking reasons why cool guys don't look at explosions:

Most low to medium budget productions don't use compositing or CGI to put the actor in the same shot as the explosion – they just put the actor much further away from the explosion than you think they are, and use forced perspective tricks to minimise the apparent distance. There are a limited number of camera angles those tricks permit, and most of them require the actor to be directly between the explosion and the camera.

In spite of the fact that the distance between the explosion and the actor is larger than you think, mistakes happen, and the best way to avoid catching a piece of flying debris in the eye is to direct your line of sight away from the explosion.

"Cool guy slowly walking away from explosion" happens to be a very obvious way of satisfying both of those safety constraints.

[behindthescreamz]

jane levy as deadite mia allen on the set of “evil dead” (2013)

[mizgnomer]

Doctor Who - Wild Blue Yonder - Visual Effects

[anactualfrog]

In honor of the headcrab zombie coming out again today for NWICC (and taking zero photos), here’s some old pics from his past days out!

[2001hz]

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as Mystique in X-Men, Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK Issue n°5 (2001)

[sarurun42]

[kaijugifs]

[allwhiterain]

Jenna Ortega behind the scenes of X (2022)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

[666frames]

Hellraiser Japanese trailer (1987)