Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments

Here we are with the third edition. Special makeup effects are still the most fun I’ve ever had professionally, in large part because of the incredible artists and craftspeople who work in this astonishing, ever-evolving field. I have never met or gotten to know more amazing, open, sharing, and supportive artists, and I want to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to them as well as to family and friends who continue to support and encourage, and have contributed to and assisted with this book. In my thinking, there are no secrets in this field, a sentiment widely attributed to the undisputed Godfather of special makeup effects, Dick Smith. I intend to carry on that tradition. Dick has been and will always be an inspiration ...