| What's In The Advanced Course |
700 pages of illustrated text in 19 lessons and 7 updates. For a
detailed list of the contents, see below.
A
color booklet with 80 photos to illustrate various make-ups and
techniques.
A
fat packet of black & white reference photos for character sculpture.
A
DVD of Dick Smith’s application of his Abraham Lincoln makeup.
A
year and a half of professional instruction and help via e-mail.
THE LESSONS
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INTRODUCTION – How the Course works,
getting into make-up, unions, non-union work, addresses of make-up
labs, photographing your work, handling yourself in the office and
on the set, making deals and getting paid, reference books, reprints
from The Center For Occupational Hazards on harmful materials,
ventilation and safety.
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LIFE MASKS & BODY MOLDS –Molding faces,
heads, limbs and bodies with various materials and techniques such
as with eyes and mouth open. Detailed instructions and diagrams for
procedures and sources for material.
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GYPSUM MATERIALS & MOLD MAKING – Types
of gypsum (plaster), mixing and casting techniques, separating
agents and reinforcing materials, making positives and negatives for
foam latex molds, mold keys, undercuts, three-piece molds,
transferring plastilene modeling from life mask to positive molds.
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SCULPTURE TECHNIQUES & MATERIALS –
Clays, stands, equipment, tools, texture stamps. Facial proportions,
sculpture principles, techniques, sealing models, texturing. Clay
“press-outs” & “pour-ins”. Anatomy and sculpture books.
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LATEX & FOAM LATEX, PART 1 – Latex
appliances. Foam latex chemistry, terms, mixing procedures, records,
equipment. Loading molds and de-molding. Brands of foam. Separating
agents, Ovens.
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FOAM LATEX, PART 2 – Filling various
latex molds, injection guns. Foam problems and repair. Painting
materials & techniques for foam, PAX paint, Special Foam molds for
overlapping appliances for body suits, etc. New, more durable mold
materials, superior to Ultracal 30.
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MOLDING AND CASTING MATERIALS – Making
flexible molds, mold materials, companies, urethanes, silicones.
Rigid and flexible casing materials including waxes, ELVAX, epoxies,
methyl and ethyl methacrylates, hot melts, gelatin, polyfoams.
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DENTURES, EYEBALLS, LENSES – Making
dentures, bridges and “plumpers”. Simple and professional ways of
making false eyes. Ordering and handling corneal and scleral
contacts, hard and soft. Sources for custom colored contacts.
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BALD CAPS – Making and application of
latex, plastic, “Cannom” and foam latex bald caps. Molds and forms.
Coloring, applying hair or hairpieces to caps.
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HAIR AND HAIR PIECES –Designing and
ordering wigs and hairpieces. Types of hair, preparing hair,
crimping, ventilating, dressing, cutting, curling, curling irons.
Laying hair, making beards on a form. Applying wigs and hairpieces.
Body hair. Coloring hair.
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AGING & CHARACTER MAKE-UP (WITHOUT
APPLIANCES) – Designing character make-ups, age charts, graying
hair. Color principles, mixing colors, Aging spots. Making an actor
younger, facial lifts. Aging with old age stipple, formulas,
application steps.
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APPLIANCE MAKE-UP – Appliance
application steps, adhesives, gluing techniques, pre-painting
appliances. Description of Lincoln make-up application as seen on
the videotape. Various coloring materials for appliance make-ups
including R.M.G.P. and PAX. Make-up removal. Body suits.
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MAKE-UP EFFECTS – Blood, methocellulose
pastes, wounds, scabs, burns, bruises, diseases, scars, decaying
flesh, sutures, sweat, tears, frost, tattoos, statue makeup, facial
distortions, cutting flesh “on camera”.
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SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKE-UP – Camera
tricks, making plastic appliances for “on camera” bullet hits,
wounds, throbbing veins, blood blisters. Blood pumps and equipment.
Making and running bladder effects. Cutting off heads and cutting
throats. Explosive effects. Chemical effects. Crumbling effects.
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DUMMY HEADS & BODIES – Casting heads of
latex, polyfoam, wax, ELVAX, ethyl methacrylate, gelatin. Making
dummies using various joints and materials.
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MECHANICAL MASKS & PUPPETS, PART 1 –
Articulated mask, Rick Baker ape mask, types of cables and housings,
cable attachments and clamps, cable control mechanisms, direction
changers. Soldering and tapping techniques.
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MECHANICAL MASKS & PUPPETS, PART 2 –
Puppets operated by hand or person inside. Making various eyeball
mechanisms. Joystick mechanisms. Mechanisms for jaw movement, neck
or waist movement. Cable junction boxes, “Change-O-Heads”, Rod
puppets.
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MECHANICAL MASKS & PUPPETS, PART 3 –
Mechanical hands, hand controls, arm extensions, arm mechanisms,
counter-balancing. Tails, tongues, tentacles. Shop techniques.
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R/C, FLUID POWER & PROGRAMMING – Radio
control, transmitters, servos, receivers, batteries, linkages,
installation & use. R/C controlled eyeballs. Pneumatic control
systems and equipment, types of pneumatic cylinders and valves.
Hydraulic control systems & components. Programming controls.
GILDERFLUKE Animation Control System.
INDEX & DIRECTORY – Table of Contents of
each lesson. Item index: lists every subject and material in the
lessons, tells what page it is on and what companies sell it. Sources
list, USA lists every company referred to, its address, phone, main
product, order requirements. Foreign Sources: for materials in
England, France, Australia. U.S. Make-up Effect Shops (separate list).
THE UPDATES
UPDATE 1 - 4 PG.
Molding open eyes without scleral lenses (Carl Fullerton)
Removing core from a foam latex glove mold (Rick Baker)
DEGUSSA TS-100 matting agent
Fire hazards
Sculpture stand construction
UPDATE 2 -14 PG.
Shop safety and respirators
Droopy eye lifts
New adhesives
Polyfoam injection system for large molds (Stan Winston)
Tips on foam latex
New materials and sources
Silk gauze uses and sources
Copyrighting designs, slides, and writing
UPDATE 3 -22 PG.
Modern gelatin technique (Kevin Haney)
Mold locking registration buttons
Life molding a body for an ape suit (Rick Baker)
Dressing very short hair
ELVAX, excellent for "wax" heads
Enlarging heads
Stippling tools
Texture stamps made of cap material (Dan Platt)
Seamless bald head mold, diagrammed by Dan Platt
New materials and sources
Vacuum chambers
UPDATE 4 -62 PG.
The career of George Bau - pioneer lab man
Gelatin appliance update (Frank Rogers)
Tattoo transfer to skin
GP-20 Cosmetic Fluid
Liver spot stamps
Quaid's make-up for "Everybody's All American"
How to make formulas for PAX colors
Update of old age stipple formulas
Sculpture techniques for appliances
Retarding the setting of alginate
Improved Utracal 30 molds
Epoxy molds for foam latex
Foam latex notes
Making temporary hair pieces
Shaved fur technique (Rick Baker)
Gelatin bladder effects
New materials, tools and supply companies
Health and safety update
UPDATE 5 -15 PG.
Epoxcal-faced Ultracal molds
Repair of defective life mask
new old-age stipple formulas
New hair graying formulas
Instant 3-D face build-up material
Fluting machines for crimping hair
Experience on "Godfather III"
UPDATE 6 -18 PG.
U.S. Gypsum Hydrocal FGR (fiber glass replacement)
Stan Winston's new mold technique for dinosaurs
Silicones for making life masks
Tips on foam latex problems
New sculpture tool makes wrinkles fast
Exploding head material
New items and sources
Reference books
Silicone basics
First info on making silicone gel-filled appliances (GFA's)
"Flabbercast" - a urethane gel
UPDATE 7 -60 PG.
29 pages of silicone technology, silicone GFA's, molding, etc.
New high-volume foam latex
Adhesives update
Gelatin review
Sculpture tips
CGI (computer generated imaging)
Soft contact lenses, sources
Artificial eyeballs, sources
Innovative denture device
Useful reference books
Sources of materials, chemicals, equipment, etc.
New anti-warp mold making technology
The list above includes about half of
the items in each Update.
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