Backstage

What would have happened in the world during the developmental period if the reptiles had had the better of the mammals ? The planet would probably be populated by a race of hominid more similar to that of the monkey lizard.. E’ what he wants us to believe the series V-Visitors, in which an alien race presents us with terrestrial human form and promises of peace.
As well as the present, however, in a friendly manner conceals double purpose (the desire to eat us!) also the appearance of the aliens is changeable: a mask hides what are their true appearance..

V-Visitors has been a cult series, that enchanted, impressed and frightened thousands of viewers, since his arrival in Italy on TV 1, in 1984.

I wanted to try to re-look made almost thirty years ago by the make-up of the series, with the same technology available at that time (plaster molds, latex masks).
That's how it came out!

The realization of the makeup:
I started taking the imprint of the face of Julia (my model) using water and alginate.
Qui sotto la potete vedere paziente e per niente infastidita mentre aspetta il suo destino 😀

I filled the mark with chalk rapid, that helped me to develop the first of its positive face.
I reused after its footprint to create the false mask of human, that once torn, revealed the appearance of extraterrestrial.
I modeled on the positive plaster, are availing of plasticine, the huge mask Visitors, based upon the images found on the web.
This model was then sprayed with plaster dental, in order to make a good impression even the texture scales.
The mask is then Visitors been realized in liquid latex prevulcanized, for stratification, irrobustendola wherever appropriate, because once applied maintained the form.

The application process was quite simple: once glued the mask from the face of alien Giulia, and finished the edges, I applied the color, verde e oro, to remember the scales of reptiles.
Everything was finished with a glossy powder to give shine and life to the Visitor.
I applied around the human mask, suitably cut, to give the idea that it had been torn away from her face.
In this case, the whole thing was fixed with bobby pins to the hair of Julia, previously collected, and covered with a wig with front tulle (attack film).

During the realization of a video presentation “Virtual Promoter”, taken care of by the Keep In Touch of Mantua for the fair Ecomondo Rimini, I was commissioned to create makeup and special effects on Violet, to give her a look that recalls the character of Star Trek “Seven of Nine”.

Violet, who starred several scenes in front of the camera, had to have a look cybernetic, with a sort of neural interface on the eyebrow, to attract the attention of visitors to the stand Tetra Pak presenting a futuristic look.

The Making of make-up
Before you start to make up your face I was in charge of coverage of the eyebrow, of which had to be installed interface. After combing the hair of the eyebrow and standardized, I applied a piece of shell cap mat then faded.
At this point I created a nice trick beauty uniform over the entire face, paying attention to the chiaroscuro.
Finally I applied and colored prosthetic part, previously made of latex and cold foam, for optimum mobility on the face.

Not only the sensitivity of the wedding makeup, or the charm and sweetness of make up fashion & glamour on these pages, but also a bit’ of blood and nastiness.
The idea of ​​Frank and Mary to see each other with a little’ of blood on him has been reworked by me and Gabriel in a rather minimalist (away from the atmosphere pulp and splatter horror films the 80s and 90s) domains in which realism and conceptualism.
In 'play your game’ (Pictured above) Mery is playing his life in a game of cards with the always fascinating vampire Francesca, and the opening bet of the game comes down fresh from her wrist.

The make up of the characters in the scene is light and almost neutral: has always been made with funds made fat light, neutral colors, eye shadows red and rosé, colored contact lenses to make it look flat and bright, and all helped to make the atmosphere quite surreal.

The wounds were instead made by molding: In fact, the model made of plasticine, I got the impression with a silicone rubber for polyaddition. Then I created a movie on the footprint in cap mat you can easily blend with the skin, sucessivamente and I filled it with bondo, which has maintained transparency.
The result is an effect of extreme realismoin which the prosthesis has no edges and whose color blends naturally (thanks to semitrapsarenza) with that of the complexion.

Other scenes from the set:

Models: Francy Albicans, Mary Poppins
Photography: Gabriele Bertolini, Stefano Sacchi

Here we go again.. cats back to strike! Already, although in this case it is a leopard, is still a part of the family.. 🙂
For an event that was held Hobby Show 2013, in Milan in conjunction with Cartoomics 2013, I have realized and applied this prosthesis' face feline’ and subsequently colored by Flavio Bosco for the realization of this bodypainting.
The nose, applied with glue for prosthesis, adheres to the whole portion of the face covered, and being made of very soft material, it preserves the facial expressions.
E’ was fun to see the large number of people who, around the fair, Anya stopped, our model, to be immortalized in a photo a pose with a cat of this caliber!

Always a lover of mystical charm exercised by the woman feline, I freely inspired by a work of makeup and special effects seen all'IMATS 2009 and manufactured by Nelly Recchia, for the realization of this chimera, which contributed in costest istuito by the National Film Bologna.

The most striking feature of makeup are these huge ears feline style, which confer aggressiveness and at the same time sensuality to the face of Silvia, building with the rest of the face an almost perfect triangular.
For their realization, I leaned against the head of my faithful dummy annni vintage 70s often used for testing body-painting.
Being a project commissioned and without sponsors, I could not use the materials' quality’ and I had to make do with what we already had at home. First I then isolated the head with a thin plastic film for food, pulled to remove any pieghetta and secured with masking tape, so that it can stay as integral with the head. Once established forms and volumes with a quick outline of paper, also useful to create the symmetry with the other side, I started modeling phase with modeling clay.

Given the particular shape of the ear totally asymmetrical and the presence of several undercuts, I decided that the only way available to me to get that object, was to realize a mold in three pieces and with dual key (the top of the photo one of the two molds obtained with positive silicone attached).
Although it is not new to this dipo working, I guarantee you that the opening of the first mold has been as exciting as the opening of the Christmas gifts that I did my grandparents when I was a child.
The platinum silicone fact that I used (really not cheap, but it was one of the few materials I had available in good quantity) is a substance very sensitive, whose proper catalyst can be inhibited by many elements. Plaster mold, carnauba wax and vaseline instead worked perfectly.
Holding all the pieces, the realization of the work was not particularly difficult, but it required a lot of patience on my part is that by the model.
In fact, I started applying a cap (bald cap) in Glatzan blended with acetone, I also served to hide his ears and eyebrows.
I then glued the cat's ears with the pros-aide to the shell, ears that had deliberately left rather rough at the bottom and treated with talcum powder to facilitate the adhesion of the glue.
But also in the next layer gave uniformly over cap and ears, after sealing minor imperfections with bondo (pros-aide + Aerosil), I noticed an excellent adhesion over the entire surface.
The pros-aide dried with a hair dryer and then powdered provided a great base for color-based fat (Supracolor) used for the bottom.
In about three hours, also spurred by Silvia (my model, I owe a special thank you and part of the credit for the success of the project), I completed the, completing work with stencils and airbrush for the realization of the track maculata and eyebrows.

..old, during the month of October because the demands of cosmetic dental implants have multiplied, and specifically:

Teeth zombies:
As you can see from the photo of the model, different from that specified in tutorial, to make these prostheses I just shaping the tips of the teeth existing mold. The result was a faster implementation and a much thinner implants, that if one side makes it more fragile and delicate, the other makes it even more comfortable and more subtle.
The prosthesis is double, because it was made for the upper jaw for the lower, maintaining a good chance of closing the mandibular.
It should be noted that increases the realism by adding small details of color and a good polishing.

Vampire teeth:
A small variation on the classic theme of 'vampire teeth'.. I reached the second incisors as well as the canines, and did a little’ sull'attaccatura top of the central incisors to make them bad. The root of the canine was discovered and moved higher up to simulate a greater length of the tooth.
Since the realization we are not bound by specific design, every time you create something new and different, thus adapting the model to the trends of the moment or to a specific request, as in the case of replicas for imitators, cosplayers, etc..

Cosmetic prostheses real:
 These false teeth’ have good coverage of aesthetic realism used to make a more pleasing smile that present a problem ugly (Attention: This is NOT a medical implant / but a simple cosmetic dental prostheses. It is therefore intended as temporary cover for use in a movie set, for cosplay, or in the theater, for the time necessary to acting / role of the).
Not create any difficulties in speech but NOT can be used for food and eating / o bere, sleep.
Membership in the mouth is guaranteed by the bill, that is being made on the calculated, fits perfectly with the underlying tooth, without requiring the need for glues or other fastening devices. It is sufficient to remove it gently pull it down. This is cleaned by washing with an antibacterial soap is not colored or neutral color and a mouthwash that contains no alcohol (without letting in immersion) and let it air dry then.

Here are step by step illustrated instructions on how I made the noses for a few characters of the Palio of Pomarance.

Since this is a play which did not require the likely make-up make-up film, and being the nose part of the face little flexible and deformable, I thought it was not necessary to use latex foam to achieve this type of prosthesis, but could also work well on liquid latex precured.

The first step in the realization of the prosthesis was then the study design (the whole show was created and developed around a comic) and the creation of the model.

Even with the positive provision of a nose (my! 🙂 ) plaster work on, and that I used as reference for the size, for convenience I made a table of all PVC (my kitchen cutting board).

After the modeling phase of the clay (Here I used the very common Pongo) and recreated a thin orange peel to simulate the effect of the skin, I used the cutout of the base of a bottle to surround the model and create a containment for the casting, as well suited in size, and then I poured the plaster to get the impression.

At this stage it is important to ensure that small air bubbles inevitably present in the water / gypsum leave, thus avoiding that create imperfections to the mold. To do this, fully paid after the plaster into the mold, just beat vigorously on the basis of which it supported the model, creating vibrations.

Obtained the mold and removing the model pose, which will leave the imprint 'clean', you can proceed to the first molding.

To do this you must pay a minimum amount of liquid latex mold inside, and then moving the same to make the latex go to cover only the areas concerned, preventing or oozing from the mold is at the bottom.

The mold should be left to air dry (if you want you can speed up the processs with a hair dryer) and at the end all be exposed to the latex powdered with talcum powder or neutral boron-. This will prevent the latex from sticking to itself during the extraction.
Generally a single layer of latex is very thin and is not sufficient to ensure that the prosthesis has achieved the required consistency, to make it more rigid, you can create other levels following the first, but left margins after 'climbing’ the distance 1/2 mm from the edge of the previously created, to ensure that the edges, remaining thinner, risultimo invisible once pasted.

Once you reach the desired thickness, powder for remembering everything well, you can proceed, by lifting a corner of the latex and shoved under a brush full of talcum powder, to pull the nose of the mold.
What should be done by becoming aware that the objectivity achieved not fold on itself, sticking beyond repair.
Below is presented as a separate noses from the plaster, ready to be applied and colored.

But what is an aperitif painting ?
By this time a bit’ I wanted a humorous show of our usual aperitifs between bodypainters in Milan, at every meeting where there is a new working group.

So this time, hosted by the Bar White Parco Sempione in Milan (and a little’ chew mosquito, actually) we have found a new reason to attract the attention of those present, Dony in the transformation of the Riddler in a pretty pink kitty. A team with no specific plan, in which each participant has improvised at the time of its creation,.
Appointment to the next drink kids !

(pictured, dall’alto: I (Stefano Sacchi) and to my right Fiorella 'Fioz’ Unleash – Center, from left: Donatella, Flavio 'effebi’ Bosco, Tiziana ‘Svampy’ Di Francesco – Under: Giorgia Artoni)