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Preliminary maquette of the Kessler Wolf being sculpted

Early sculpt of the Kessler Wolf by Craig Reardon - notice the ears and slightly different face/jaw shape compared to the final version

Rick Baker sculpting the finalized Kessler Wolf head, with concept art behind him

The sculpted Kessler Wolf mask and musculature before having fur punched in

An early sculpt (by Craig Reardon) and the final sculpt for the Kessler Wolf in American Werewolf in London

As the wolf would be seen mostly in glimpses, an 'evil' expression had to be sculpted in order that any shot could catch it.

#AWIL #AmericanWerewolfInLondon #RickBaker

Closeup image of a snarling werewolf mask, ostensibly Rob Bottin's werewolf mask for The Howling (1981)

Hey @moonshiftmonsters.bsky.social did you ever run into this photo ever? The image source (Ill link it in a reply) is vague but says its from The Howling

An oldie, but a goodie makeup from over a decade ago. A design that I manifested from sculpt to makeup application. This is all my work (minus sourcing someone to run the foam prosthetics). This makeup application won me a first place spot in the ONLY makeup competition I’ve ever tried out for.

I started curating a list of special make up artists and builders specialized in monsters and prosthetics.

Drop me a line if you know an account that should be on here.

#specialEffects #spfx #sfx #practicalFx #fxMakeUp #makeUpEffects #makeUpFx
#specialMakeUpFx #monsterMaker #prosthetics

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Margaret Qualley as Monstro ElisaSue behind the scenes of The Substance ✨
From @benditospoiler (IG)

Sue Johnston in her penultimate stage of infection. Her skin is cracked and bloody, her hair is thin and falling out. She is wearing nine Prothetics on her face and another 12 on her hands.

Garrick Hagon in stage 2ii infection. Garrick was the voice of the Hemulin in the British dub of the Moomins and I loved hearing him talk.

A bit of infection creeps up under the of collar Rebecca Humphries.

Rebecca in the chair having her makeup applied. The infection moved across the body differently differently depending on how they were infected.

Some of my infection designs from the now all-broadcast Generation-Z.

Info in alt text.

The last episode of Generation-Z airs tonight on Channel 4 (already available on their vod platform) so here’s a puppet I designed for a previous episode that featured some self-surgery. We also made matching prosthetic versions of different stages to edit between.

Credits in alt text.

From @justin_s_martinez (IG) Gore effect from VHS Beyond, created by Magee FX.

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Behind the scenes with the Manager Demon for Evil TV, created by Joel Harlow’s @chickenfist (IG) Morphology FX. Credits in alt text

Completed Raatma sculpture by @MageeFX (IG) as seen at Monsterpalooza 2022. #HailRaatma

Daily Squibs archive post #2

CONTRABAND (Fulci, 1980)

How The Substance Created the Ultimate Body of Horrors And turned Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into one of the year’s best movie monsters.

The full Monstro required five heads, two full bodysuits, two partial bodysuits, a mold of Demi Moore’s head, Moore herself, VFX and CGI teams, and 30,000 gallons of blood.

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Margaret Qualley in a grotesque mutant costume inspired by David Cronenberg's The Fly and David Lynch's The Elephant Man

Margaret Qualley in a grotesque mutant costume inspired by David Cronenberg's The Fly and David Lynch's The Elephant Man

Margaret Qualley in a grotesque mutant costume inspired by David Cronenberg's The Fly and David Lynch's The Elephant Man

Three nearly identical head sculpts for MonstroElisaSue on an FX workshop table, intended for different angles and shots

Margaret Qualley as MonstroElisaSue in The Substance, 2024. Design by Coralie Fargeat, Pierre-Olivier Persin and crew. #spoilers #gore #practicaleffects

www.vulture.com/article/the-...

Costume of a raggedy, decayed-looking avian human creature with a fleshless crow skull head

Crow deity costume from Neil Blomkamp's Demonic (2021). Amazing Ape Productions, 2021

Cast, painted and hair-punched mould of an actor's head and upper torso, with a grimacing expression and closed eyes. The material (likely silicone) has telltale cracks across the cheeks and down the neck

Fake body with the head and torso attached, and an actor dressed as Black Noir from The Boys is grabbing him by the throat

Internal shot of the head after it's been half torn off at the mouth. All the palate, throat, spine and jaw meat gross stuff is visible

Internal shot of the head after it's been half torn off at the mouth. All the palate, throat, spine and jaw meat gross stuff is visible

Black Noir's head ripping gag from The Boys Season 2. From Mindwarp FX, 2019.

Credits:
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Probably gonna port Daily Squibs over here properly on the first of the year because that's when I first started it and I like the symmetry but before then I'll do some reposts from the Daily Squibs archive:

SCORE (Muroga, 1995)

Detailed painted cast of an actor as a corpse with a cello neck jutting from his mouth and the strings visible from his flayed throat, where his vocal cords would otherwise be

Detailed painted cast of an actor as a corpse with a cello neck jutting from his mouth and the strings visible from his flayed throat, where his vocal cords would otherwise be

Detailed painted cast of an actor as a corpse with a cello neck jutting from his mouth and the strings visible from his flayed throat, where his vocal cords would otherwise be

Close-ups of the Cello Man from NBC's Hannibal (Fromage, S01E08). Cast of actor Douglas Siddall, by Mindwarp FX (@nomad11, @10.shock IG).

www.instagram.com/mindwarpfx/

Six stages of prosthetic application to an actor's face to create a bug-eyed ghoulish face with jutting teeth and long stringy hair

Emma (Martha Holland) make-up process from The Gravedancers (2006). ⁣⁣⁣

Make-up and creature effects by Rebecca Wachtel, Mike Elizalde’s Spectral Motion, and Norman Cabrera

Testing the arm rip from Gen-Z at the workshop. Elliot and Becca having a right old time.

A camera points at a woman in a costume of a skull-faced birch dryad entity

The head of a woman in a costume of a skull-faced birch dryad entity. Birch branches and vines curl around a huge crown-like protrusion that makes up most of her head

Close-up of The Birch with her mouth open, showing off rotten teeth and slime

Whole body of The Birch, a human-like torso emerging from the thick stump of a birch tree in remote woods.

Dee Sherwood Wallace in costume on set of The Birch (2016 short film). Effects by Cliff Wallace and Jessica Tay.

Studio sculpt of a Lovecraftian, cephalopod-like creature about the size of a person's head and torso

Studio sculpt of a Lovecraftian, cephalopod-like creature, now painted in fleshy colours, with 4 effects technicians standing around it

An effects technician works on details of the creature, whose tentacles and fanged mouth are now attached.

Creature on set of Hell Hole, fully painted and covered with bloody slime, sitting on rocks and piles of gore in a grassy field. A puppeteer has his hand in it up to the shoulder.

Preparing the Beast from Hell Hole (2024).

Todd Masters FX (@mastersfxstudios on IG)

Man with a pained expression and a gruesome slit throat effect, spraying blood up toward the ceiling

Masked killer drives a broken bowling pin into someone's eyesocket, causing a big spurt of blood

Rear angle of the slit throat effect as goopy blood flies toward the camera

Woman fires a shotgun and closes her eyes against the blood squib on the floor launching big arcs of blood up at her

Behind the scenes shots from Gutterballs (2008). Effects by director Ryan Nicholson and team

Another stunning gore effect from @roligore (IG). #practicaleffects #gore #prosthetics

www.instagram.com/roligore/

Close up of a blonde woman looking into the camera. Special effects makeup has created a realistic gore effect where it looks like her lips and half of her face have been torn off

Close up of a blonde woman looking into the camera. Special effects makeup has created a realistic gore effect where it looks like her lips and half of her face have been torn off

Close up of a blonde woman looking into the camera. Special effects makeup has created a realistic gore effect where it looks like her lips and half of her face have been torn off

Amazing gore tutorial effects from @roligore (IG) for Fangoria Magazine. June 2020

More masks.
A wounded Fawn.
Girl on the Third Floor
Salt
Walking Against The Rain.

Early Raatma effects test by Magee FX, for V/H/S/94 (2021)
#practicaleffects #hailraatma

A very extremely realistic torso and head of Jake Gyllenhaal lying face-up on a table, eyes closed. His lower torso and the rest of his body are missing, and bloodless organs are spilling out, his spine visible.

A very extremely realistic torso and head of Jake Gyllenhaal lying face-up on a table, eyes closed. His lower torso and the rest of his body are missing, and bloodless organs are spilling out, his spine visible.

Animatronic comatose Jake Gyllenhaal for Source Code (2011) barely seen in the film. Rigged with a breathing chest and moving eyeballs under the lids.

Adrien Morot and crew for Maestro Studio Montreal, 2010