Stargate Atlantis - iO9: Todd Masters/MastersFX
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6 Mask-Making Magicians Who Create Your Favorite Aliens
Creating cool alien creatures for TV and movies is no easy feat. It requires constant innovation, an ability to create characters who are at the same time surprising and believable, and the magic power to smother actors in pounds of makeup and foam without killing them. Here are our favorite six artists and studios who use makeup, prosthetics, and animatronics to keep pushing alien life to the next level.
Even as CG threatens to overwhelm science fiction media, these artists use physical materials and ingenuity to create beings that are sometimes frightening, sometimes inviting, and always intriguing:
Neill Gorton, Millennium FX
Optic Nerve Studios
Michael Westmore
Dave Elsey, The Jim Henson Creature Shop
Todd Masters, MastersFX
Todd Masters has kept busy heading makeup for Stargate Atlantis, designing characters such as the menacing Wraiths. Masters and his studio, MastersFX, also worked on Star Trek: First Contact, bringing the Borg Queen and her serpentine spine to life. They also showed off their prosthetics chops – and their eye for the bizarre – with the alien mutation comedy Slither.
[NOTE: the link to MastersFX: http://www.mastersfx.com/
KNB EFX
(Please follow the link for the complete article. Photos at the link above.)
6 Mask-Making Magicians Who Create Your Favorite Aliens
Creating cool alien creatures for TV and movies is no easy feat. It requires constant innovation, an ability to create characters who are at the same time surprising and believable, and the magic power to smother actors in pounds of makeup and foam without killing them. Here are our favorite six artists and studios who use makeup, prosthetics, and animatronics to keep pushing alien life to the next level.
Even as CG threatens to overwhelm science fiction media, these artists use physical materials and ingenuity to create beings that are sometimes frightening, sometimes inviting, and always intriguing:
Neill Gorton, Millennium FX
Optic Nerve Studios
Michael Westmore
Dave Elsey, The Jim Henson Creature Shop
Todd Masters, MastersFX
Todd Masters has kept busy heading makeup for Stargate Atlantis, designing characters such as the menacing Wraiths. Masters and his studio, MastersFX, also worked on Star Trek: First Contact, bringing the Borg Queen and her serpentine spine to life. They also showed off their prosthetics chops – and their eye for the bizarre – with the alien mutation comedy Slither.
[NOTE: the link to MastersFX: http://www.mastersfx.com/
KNB EFX
