News article on "MastersFX"
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Television - AP
'Six Feet Under' Corpses Are No Accident
Wed Jun 9, 4:05 PM ET
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES - Walk into the unmarked office in a nondescript suburban
industrial complex and, suddenly, a feeling of dread descends.
A corpse in a body bag is propped by the front desk. A head that's a
dead ringer for actress Adrienne Barbeau (news) is tucked into a
trophy case.
In the realm of MastersFX, the bizarre is commonplace. So is the art
of death — the special effects studio has supplied make-believe
bodies and prosthetics for HBO's "Six Feet Under" from the start.
When the mortuary drama returns for its fourth season 9 p.m. EDT
Sunday, the company's Emmy-winning handiwork will be on display
again. If a stiff is needed for the Fisher family morgue, this is
where it comes from.
MastersFX also has designed special effects for HBO's "Carnivale"
(hence the Barbeau head, used in a scene in which her character
ostensibly dies and is revived); "Kingdom Hospital"; "Stargate SG-
1"; "Stargate Atlantis" and for films including "Hidalgo"
and "Predator."
As clever as the monsters, aliens, animals and other figments of the
company's imagination are, it's the human corpses and heads — mundane
but astonishing in their realism — that catch the eye.
**snippity doo dah**
A body's creation represents equal parts technology and artistry,
said Todd Masters, who founded the company in 1986. Special effects
in general encompass "drawing, sculpting, performance, painting.
Everything you can do in a creative environment," he said.
The MastersFX studio, deliberately placed in an anonymous, out-of-the-
way building to thwart would-be souvenir collectors (Masters
recalls "Star Trek" fans rifling trash bins) is where the morbid
magic happens. (A second studio is in Vancouver, British Columbia.)
**snippity doo dah**
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MastersFX has an intitial web site (still under construction) at:
http://www.mastersfx.com/
Not much there, but there is a photo of Thor!
|*|(*)|*|(*)|*|
Morjana
SG1-Spoilergate
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040609/ap_on_en_tv/ap_on_tv_six_feet_under_1
or
http://tinyurl.com/29jtw
(For the complete article, please follow the link[s]).
Television - AP
'Six Feet Under' Corpses Are No Accident
Wed Jun 9, 4:05 PM ET
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES - Walk into the unmarked office in a nondescript suburban
industrial complex and, suddenly, a feeling of dread descends.
A corpse in a body bag is propped by the front desk. A head that's a
dead ringer for actress Adrienne Barbeau (news) is tucked into a
trophy case.
In the realm of MastersFX, the bizarre is commonplace. So is the art
of death — the special effects studio has supplied make-believe
bodies and prosthetics for HBO's "Six Feet Under" from the start.
When the mortuary drama returns for its fourth season 9 p.m. EDT
Sunday, the company's Emmy-winning handiwork will be on display
again. If a stiff is needed for the Fisher family morgue, this is
where it comes from.
MastersFX also has designed special effects for HBO's "Carnivale"
(hence the Barbeau head, used in a scene in which her character
ostensibly dies and is revived); "Kingdom Hospital"; "Stargate SG-
1"; "Stargate Atlantis" and for films including "Hidalgo"
and "Predator."
As clever as the monsters, aliens, animals and other figments of the
company's imagination are, it's the human corpses and heads — mundane
but astonishing in their realism — that catch the eye.
**snippity doo dah**
A body's creation represents equal parts technology and artistry,
said Todd Masters, who founded the company in 1986. Special effects
in general encompass "drawing, sculpting, performance, painting.
Everything you can do in a creative environment," he said.
The MastersFX studio, deliberately placed in an anonymous, out-of-the-
way building to thwart would-be souvenir collectors (Masters
recalls "Star Trek" fans rifling trash bins) is where the morbid
magic happens. (A second studio is in Vancouver, British Columbia.)
**snippity doo dah**
|*|(*)|*|(*)|*|
MastersFX has an intitial web site (still under construction) at:
http://www.mastersfx.com/
Not much there, but there is a photo of Thor!
|*|(*)|*|(*)|*|
Morjana
SG1-Spoilergate
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/SG1-Spoilergate/
Richard Dean Anderson Fans
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rdandersonfans/
