What will I learn?

You will join the course that will both give you an overall Insight to the workings of prosthetic production but also to give you confidence in product use and processes that will be the foundation of your future career in the industry. Taking you through the processes from life casting to applying your own produced silicone prosthetics onto a model. Including the more specialised days like learning hair punching and applying and colouring prosthetics pieces for different skin tones.

 

Your course will cover:

• Casualty (creating cuts, bruises, burns etc)
• Life casting
• Sculpting flat moulds
• Moulding, Sculpting & Casting Character pieces
• Applying Character pieces
• Hair punching
• And much more……

Much has Changed in the use of sfx makeup since the “chopping” Mary Queen of Scots head off in 1895! Techniques in prosthetics makeup have advanced so it is now hard to establish what I sreal and what is sfx makeup!

The classic film of ‘The Hunch Back Of Notre Dame’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’ in the 1920’s was a great leap forward in what could be done with certain materials to create a look of sfx makeup horror in this instance.  

Later in the 1950’s we begin to see artists using their skills and techniques to create some truly amazing special effects with makeup and silicones.

Artists such as Dick Smith,  Stan Winston, Ben Nye and Matthew Mungle to name but a few.

These SFX artists really did advance the genre so much and so quickly that today anything is possible.

Transforming actors’ appearances with some subtle prosthetic pieces really is a work of art.

Remember, in most films and Television productions it is about “realistic wounds and cuts and bruises!”

The cost of the 4 week course, including VAT and all materials, is £4,450