Special Make-Up Effects

 

CHAPTER 3

Special Effects

SINCE THE 1950S WHEN SOME NEW AND DIFFERENT TEX- tures and effects were introduced in The Technique of Film and Television Make-up (Focal Press, London, 1958), the advances and research into the complicated field of make-up special effects has expanded in many and various directions and is only bound by human imagination. Entire make-up laboratories, far advanced from those previously envisioned, have become the spawning places of more blood and guts, monsters, and extraterrestrial creatures through the talents of a small band of make-up artists that has gone far beyond the usual. To anyone interested in this field, the workshops of Dick Smith, Stan Winston, Tom Burman, Rick Baker, Rob Botin, and others are wondrous ...