For Gil’s complete, step by step instructions for creating this effect, and more information on how its made, here.

This FX makeup tutorial will be in two parts. In this video, Part 1, Gil shows us how to fit and securely adhere the appliance to the model’s face using a durable, water-based contact adhesive.

In Part 2 of this special effects makeup tutorial, Gil Romero uses PAX paint to color the foam latex appliance that he applied in part one of the tutorial. Gil uses a variety of techniques to build layers of color and create realism.

Once the effect is complete and the model has been fitted with wig and wardrobe, he is ready for the movie screen.

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This time we are narrowing the focus a bit and concentrating on the DIY (Do It Yourself) elements. Hopefully this will help you slash the budget without murdering your production values.

DIY: Blood, Bullets & Stunts

DIY: Stage Effects/Green Screen

DIY: Digital Effects

After Effects

Sony Vegas

DIY: Make-Up/Costumes

DIY: Static Props

DIY: Motion Props

DIY: Horror Sets

DIY: Packaging

Prop Shops & FX Supplies

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Completely overlooked in amateur filmmaking, make-up is a great tool for improving the look of your. Without it, video makes the actor look pale and pasty, their face flat and without tone.

You will need -

• A towel
• A head band
• Hair brush
• Mirror
• Cotton swabs
• Tweezers
• Make-up brushes
• Moisturizer
• Foundations
• Translucent powder
• Eye shadow and applicators
• Mascara
• Eye pencils
• Rouge, toners and brushes
• Lipstick and lip brush

Remember to choose the make-up’s colour and tone based on the actor’s, as well as their hair and eye colour.

First apply the moisturizer and allow it to soften the skin. Then apply the foundations, a pale colour to the centre forehead, below the eyes, nose, upper lip and the chin. Then apply a darker foundation which matches the neck to the sides of the face and forehead.

Apply the translucent powder to the whole face.

Use a dark eye shadow to outline the eyes. You can exaggerate the corners but try to follow the overall shape. Apply a bright highlight above the lashes and below the brow. Brush on a shader the socket line.

Use a pencil to lengthen and emphasize the the eyebrows. Prepare the lashes before applying the mascara.

Shade the cheeks by applying blusher to the area under the cheekbones.

Define the outline of lips with a lip pencil, which should be darker than the lipstick. Use a brush to apply the lipstick over the whole of the lips. If requiered, and a gloss to really bring them out.

I must stress that less is more, make-up is not war paint. Fell free to experiment, subtle variations can create dramatic differences.

…FROM the depths of an ancient casket a bony and shriveled hand stretched back across history thirty-seven centuries to snatch a scroll from a terror-stricken actress.

Deep, gray lines of age streaked the hand. Dust fell from ancient fingers. Yet it moved, actually grasped the parchment, and disappeared from the screen.

Outside the camera angle sat Boris Karloff. It was his hand whose antiquity the camera revealed, a hand “mummified” earlier in the morning by Jack Pierce, movie make-up expert, who recently produced a living mummy in the person of Karloff, complete in 1500 feet of rotted cloth bandages, wrinkled skin, closed eyes and the yellow hair of a person dead many centuries.

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