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| Web Exclusive: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Young Hellboy |
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Make-up artist Montse Ribé as Young Hellboy.
BELOW: David Martí applying make-up on Ribé. |
Posted: Monday 04 August, 2008
Joe Nazzaro
We had a great response to our story about the make-up work on Hellboy 2: The Golden Army in Issue 73 of Make-up Artist magazine. So we have added Joe Nazzaro’s additional stories and photos from the film and labs where the film’s many characters were created. Make-up artists working in three different countries collaborated on these creatures—see for yourself!
From a make-up perspective, the first major character to appear in Hellboy 2 is a younger version of the hero, seen in a 1955 prologue with Professor Broom (John Hurt). The Young Hellboy character was created by the Barcelona-based company DDT Efectos Especiales and played in a gender-bending twist by the company’s Montse Ribé.
According to DDT chief David Martí, director Guillermo del Toro originally intended the shop to create a number of characters for the film, but after months of designing and budgeting, various events prevented that from happening: “One day Guillermo called us, very excited like a child, and said he had the perfect job for us; he said, ‘Do you want to do Young Hellboy for me?’ After that long and tedious process, we finally got the best thing for us: just one character, but a very special one! But even more, Guillermo asked, ‘Do you think Montse would play the role?’
“We started with a younger version of Ron’s make-up on Montse’s head, but nobody, Guillermo included, liked it. Montse was sculpting the face and it was really difficult for her to find the match between Ron’s face and a child. There were a lot of subtle elements that made it look more like a little red monster than a young Hellboy; something as easy as the ears, if you made them pointy, they didn’t work but if you rounded them it looked good. We started running out of time and Guillermo still wasn’t happy, so we decided to forget about some of those elements and just move ahead with the final head sculpture. The body was sculpted by Arjen Tuiten, while the mechanics for the hand and tail were done by Xavi Bastida, Pablo Perona and Juan Serrano.
“The hard part was around the eyes, because Montse is 36 and had some little wrinkles around the eyes that weren’t right for a child, so I did some lifting on the eyelids and eye bags with some micro pieces of plastic surgery tape.”
“We used foam latex for everything but the stone hand. It had been a long time since we used foam, but we had a lot of help from Roland Blancaflor who is the best at running foam latex, so we’re very grateful to him.”
Hellboy 2: The Art of the Movie by Dark Horse Books is now on sale.
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Make-Up Artist Magazine Features Michael Jackson Retrospective - Monday 06 July, 2009 |
| Following the recent death of Michael Jackson, Make-Up Artist magazine’s next issue (#79) will feature a retrospective of the King of Pop,
featuring interviews with a number of make-up artists who worked with
Jackson over the past three decades, as well as some exclusive,
never-before-published photos. |
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Web Exclusive: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Young Hellboy - Monday 04 August, 2008 |
| From a make-up perspective, the first major character to appear in Hellboy 2 is
a younger version of the hero, seen in a 1955 prologue with Professor
Broom (John Hurt). The Young Hellboy character was created by the
Barcelona-based company DDT Efectos Especiales and played in a
gender-bending twist by the company’s Montse Ribé. |
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Iranian Make-up Innovator Dies at 65 - Wednesday 14 May, 2008 |
| Iranian
movie make-up artist Farhang Moayyeri died May 10 in Tehran of cardiac arrest.
He was 65 and had already fought a long battle with lung cancer, the Iran State
News Agency reported.
Moayyeri
created several make-up designs and prosthetics for Iranian theater, television
and film. He is best known for creating make-up for the films of Bahram Beizai,
Mas'ud Kimiai and other well-known Iranian directors.
According
to the ISNA, Moayyeri was born in 1943 and began his career acting on The
Brick and the Mirror (1965), then tried directing before entering the make-up
industry in 1978. He created the make-up for Bashou, the Little Stranger (1986), Maybe Some Other Time (1988), Killing Mad Dogs (2001) and
other films.
Mohsen
Maleki, head of the Iranian Association of Make-Up Designers, expressed sorrow
over Moayyeri’s death and described him as the father of modern Iranian make-up
design. Moayyeri was honored by the association in 2006 for his efforts to train
new generations of artists in Iran's film industry.
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Wake Up to Make-up! - Thursday 11 December, 2008 |
Australian make-up artist Napoleon Perdis has his own schools, his own cosmetics line, and now, his own reality show: Get Your Face On.
The program, filmed at Perdis’ flagship L.A. store, follows 12 make-up
artists as they vie to become his protégé. The one-hour, 10-episode
show debuted Dec. 8 on the TLC network and is airing every weekday
morning through Dec. 19. We asked Perdis to tell us more.
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