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| Make-up Artists See Benefits of Famehog.com |
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Posted: Tuesday 12 January, 2010
Make-Up Artist magazine
Note: Article from Issue 82 of Make-Up Artist magazine.
New site helps make-up artists market themselves
At first, make-up effects artist and Famehog cofounder Jason Hamer pictured his new Web site as "YouTube meets IMDB meets Facebook," he said.
But this fall, after a year of consulting with make-up artists and other movie production people about the site while it was still in beta, Hamer and co-founder/designer Scott Mallone emerged with something slightly different: a database of visual resumes.
 Famehog.com is geared specifically to movie-industry professionals. Users create their own pages, where they can post their resumes and film credits, photos and video of past and present work and contact information. An online video tutorial demonstrates how to create pages and add or edit information. There are two price tiers; $9.95 per month for 50 megabytes of storage or $19.95 per month for unlimited storage. Users who aren’t comfortable with computers can pay a little extra to have the company build a page for them.
"Most people, for $9.95, can fit a majority of their work on the page," said business manager Doug Raggio.
 Famehog is not Facebook, or any other kind of a social networking site, because the make-up artists Hamer consulted (among them Kazuhiro Tsuji, Jeff Dawn and Bill Corso) didn’t want another social networking site. To avoid what Raggio calls "lookie-loos," the site vets potential users. "We review every application," he said. "We ask, 'Are they a legitimate make-up artist? Do they have industry cred?' Guild membership is an immediate in. We look at schools, film credits, whether you have a manager, whether you’re actively working in the industry. If we refuse someone, we tell them to build their portfolio and come back later."
Added Hamer, "We wanted to keep a higher standard and make it for people who are really serious about their careers."
Looking through users' reels and photos can be entertaining, but Famehog is not an entertainment channel like YouTube; it’s strictly for work. And while it serves some of the same functions as IMDB, there are significant differences.
"IMDB is a database, and it’s awesome for what it is, but you can’t see what people have done," Hamer said. With his site, "I can see what movies someone did and what they did IN the movie. It gives you a better sense of their work."
 Eryn Krueger Mekash is among the site's users. "I’ve never really had time to do my own Web site or ship my portfolio all over, so this is much easier to use," she said. She prefers it to IMDB, which she said requires a two- to three-week approval process for any changes and has listed what she calls inaccurate credit information.
"Famehog was put together by people who are knowledgeable about effects," said Corso. "It's really artist friendly, whereas IMDB is more of a general information site."
Famehog was inspired in part by actors' online portfolios. "It was an idea the make-up industry hadn't adapted, but they really needed it," Hamer said. Eventually, he hopes to expand the company’s scope internationally.
Added Raggio, "When we go out to people in the make-up community, they say 'Where have you been?'"
For more information, go to www.famehog.com.
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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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