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| FX artists create new aesthetic for ‘Star Trek’ franchise |
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| Harlow's 'Star Trek' duties included making up the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy. |
| Courtesy of Joel Harlow |
Posted: Monday 06 April, 2009
Joe Nazzaro
Creating a unique new look for the rebooted Star Trek franchise was a big priority for J.J. Abrams, the producer-turned-director of the forthcoming Star Trek film.
So Abrams turned to Barney Burman and his team at Proteus Make-up FX to craft alien creatures for the film, which recounts the earliest adventures of the Enterprise crew. It was a big job: The artists had to produce and execute new designs for various aliens, and they had to do it more quickly than they originally anticipated. As Burman recalled, “There was originally going to be a scene with most of our alien species, which would shoot towards the end of production, but J.J. always had a problem with it, because it was like, ‘Here’s our big cantina scene where all the aliens show up!’
“J.J. didn’t want it to be a Star Wars kind of scene, so he ultimately scrapped it and changed it to just one alien. For the rest of the aliens we were going to make, he said, ‘Let’s pepper them throughout the film from the beginning,’ so instead of having more than three months to get them all done, we suddenly had to produce them in a matter of weeks.”
With such a massive workload to deal with all at once, Burman wound up assigning some of the featured humanoid races, notably the Romulans, to Joel Harlow and his team. “The majority of Romulans had a three-piece make-up,” Harlow said, “which was two ears and a forehead that went up to the crown of the head. Nero [played by Eric Bana] also had an extra piece on the back of his head, which was the continuation of a bite mark, so he was pretty much fully covered.”
Although Burman was involved in every aspect of the Proteus build from start to finish, the scale of production made it impossible to be in ten places at once. “I used to look at guys who ran big shops and big shows and think, ‘They’re designing and overseeing it, but they’ve got everybody doing all the work. Why don’t they get their hands dirty?’ Now I understand why. It was probably the least I’ve ever slept in my life and the most stress I’ve ever gone through—but was ultimately one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had!”
Get the full story (including exclusive material) on Star Trek’s make-up in the May/June issue of Make-Up Artist magazine, on sale May 1. The artists will also speak at the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show, held June 20-21 in Los Angeles. For more information, go to http://makeupmag.com/imats/.
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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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