The love for the work shows. If you hate it, that shows to. We do it because we love it. Shows like FaceOff suck the love out of the job out with time crunches. On the other hand they do help one another just like real artist, because we all want to grow.
I’ve bought some expensive tools when I first started and I hardly ever use them. Now I just MacGyver the tools I need. I use wire, little coffee straws, paper clips, needles and almost anything.
I became interested in special make-up in 1987 and I would read fangoria magazine and in the back of the magazine there I found an advertisement for a store called Berman industries. I lived in LA and my step dad took me to Van nuys where the Bermans was and I bought a book called how to make a mask and a foam latex kit greasepaint, algenist, hydrocal 30, dental acrylics monomer and polymer, plaster bandages, Roman plastilina clay and I casted my friend's head then I sculpted a Jason Voorhees part 4. And that's was the beginning of what I thought was going to be a bright future in special make-up FX and I was wrong instead my life took a detour and I ended up sculpting mannequins for a company in downtown Los Angeles called deckter mannequins .
I landed in the film industry because of sheer luck. I was offered a position at the film academy in Amsterdam. But at that time studying music at the Royal conservatory was my dream. I royally (pun intended) fucked up my audition. By that time my film academy position had been handed to a more eager student. So here I was 18 y/o and I had the hot breath of the defense department in my neck, to serve mandatory military duty. So I studied electronics for “1 semester” because the film academy offered me a position. But I loved electronics and especially programming. It sat well with me, so I kept gigging with the band I was in, doing session work and study engineering. FFWD 7 years after graduation. The band had split, I was working in London. And I saw a hypnotist of screen and a mentalist. I was like: “hmmm I wanna get back onstage and that’s fun an fascinating. I can combine my electronics wizardry to make props to fool other mentalists/magicians”. And I did that for 7 years and then I was asked to become a technical consultant for a mentalism show on TV. So I did that... through that I was asked to consult on a hypnosis TV show. And a si did that, the same production company made their first feature. And I talked to the German VFX supervisor (just to polish up on my German). When I realized that (I’m still working as a freelance software engineer as well), that VFX is basically applied computer science. I asked to join as an unpaid intern on fridays. They let me and I learned VFX compositing and 2D mattepainting. I automated their pipeline. And I started doing VFX for TV and commercials and YT. Then in 2016 I get a call from my former VFX coach that he needed a TD to solve an issue that he had, and the company that hired him, didn’t have TD resources available as they are all working on this same project. Suddenly my first VFX gig in a feature is a Hollywood feature! Dunkirk (sure my work was only used on 2.5 seconds but hey!) And through that I was asked to do more indies here in NL. I live indies! And then because of Dunkirk I was asked to do a show (that finally after 4 years will now air on Apple TV, it was done for HBO). And when they asked me to put in a bid, I thought it was a joke. Landing that job was again luck, because of my engineering background. It’s ironic that same guys I knew studied film, never made it in film or even TV. Here I am doing film and TV next to freelance IT, because of my engineering background and art passion. The only thing I dream of is to do a movie score. It maybe an indie! I’ll be happy with that :)
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The love for the work shows. If you hate it, that shows to. We do it because we love it. Shows like FaceOff suck the love out of the job out with time crunches. On the other hand they do help one another just like real artist, because we all want to grow.
That conversation at 20:00 is so solid.
I’ve bought some expensive tools when I first started and I hardly ever use them. Now I just MacGyver the tools I need. I use wire, little coffee straws, paper clips, needles and almost anything.
Amazing video! You cant fined much videos like this
Thank you so much for this
This is so awesome. Thank you!!
Absolutley fascinating 👍😎👍 Thank you
Great job
I made mines. They look great. Work better
How do you learn anatomy so that the shapes and everything actually makes sense?
You can learn a lot from anatomy books. - Balázs
if you know anything about vaping and building your own coils... making a 'Clapton' and some 'Ribbon Wire' and it's cheap
wow! this is great! thanks a lot :)
I was wondering if it is possible to sculpt "crepey" skin texture?
How funny ,..i use the blue-handed cheapie-packs of brushes from Micheal's too -- for the same reasons.
I became interested in special make-up in 1987 and I would read fangoria magazine and in the back of the magazine there I found an advertisement for a store called Berman industries. I lived in LA and my step dad took me to Van nuys where the Bermans was and I bought a book called how to make a mask and a foam latex kit greasepaint, algenist, hydrocal 30, dental acrylics monomer and polymer, plaster bandages, Roman plastilina clay and I casted my friend's head then I sculpted a Jason Voorhees part 4. And that's was the beginning of what I thought was going to be a bright future in special make-up FX and I was wrong instead my life took a detour and I ended up sculpting mannequins for a company in downtown Los Angeles called deckter mannequins .
I landed in the film industry because of sheer luck. I was offered a position at the film academy in Amsterdam. But at that time studying music at the Royal conservatory was my dream. I royally (pun intended) fucked up my audition. By that time my film academy position had been handed to a more eager student. So here I was 18 y/o and I had the hot breath of the defense department in my neck, to serve mandatory military duty. So I studied electronics for “1 semester” because the film academy offered me a position.
But I loved electronics and especially programming. It sat well with me, so I kept gigging with the band I was in, doing session work and study engineering.
FFWD 7 years after graduation. The band had split, I was working in London. And I saw a hypnotist of screen and a mentalist. I was like: “hmmm I wanna get back onstage and that’s fun an fascinating. I can combine my electronics wizardry to make props to fool other mentalists/magicians”. And I did that for 7 years and then I was asked to become a technical consultant for a mentalism show on TV. So I did that... through that I was asked to consult on a hypnosis TV show. And a si did that, the same production company made their first feature. And I talked to the German VFX supervisor (just to polish up on my German). When I realized that (I’m still working as a freelance software engineer as well), that VFX is basically applied computer science. I asked to join as an unpaid intern on fridays. They let me and I learned VFX compositing and 2D mattepainting. I automated their pipeline. And I started doing VFX for TV and commercials and YT. Then in 2016 I get a call from my former VFX coach that he needed a TD to solve an issue that he had, and the company that hired him, didn’t have TD resources available as they are all working on this same project.
Suddenly my first VFX gig in a feature is a Hollywood feature! Dunkirk (sure my work was only used on 2.5 seconds but hey!) And through that I was asked to do more indies here in NL. I live indies! And then because of Dunkirk I was asked to do a show (that finally after 4 years will now air on Apple TV, it was done for HBO). And when they asked me to put in a bid, I thought it was a joke. Landing that job was again luck, because of my engineering background.
It’s ironic that same guys I knew studied film, never made it in film or even TV. Here I am doing film and TV next to freelance IT, because of my engineering background and art passion. The only thing I dream of is to do a movie score. It maybe an indie! I’ll be happy with that :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I see T2 in the background :D
Does yhstcextruder work with Epoxy Clays
Wo wow 👌
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What clay are you using?
Looks like WED clay to me
"you know"
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You need a better mic - very hard to hear your speaking...
This guy is a great sculptor and has great advice, but he said “you know” so much that I had to stop watching this it bothered me so much.
Yeah I know, ya know