I went to a Splatter FX workshop last weekend, hosted by Leigh and Mike who were responsible for the zombie make up and special fx on BTTD. It was good fun and we learnt some great stuff (i was joined by rowan).
They started with the making of blood using thier own recipe, then a talk about bruising and why the skin changes the colours that it does. They gave us demonstrations of a bite, a bullet hole, burns and vampire teeth marks showing us how to mold wounds from dough and apply latex. Then it was time for us to use our newly accquired skills to create whatever we wanted.
The whole workshop was rushed becuase rowan was an hour late (thinking back to Dream? shoot) but it was still well worth it. We even walked away with a splatter showbag with some blood, latex, stipples and dough so we can continue to create the macabre.
This is the first demo Leigh did for us of a chunk bitten out, he usually blends colours with air brush which i think is much more accurate but for our sake we were using make up
This is a slit wrist i made on Leigh when it was out time to shine, i was pretty happy with the turnout, tried to make it look a bit gangreen for added effect..
Well thats about it for now.. still waitin for the trasharama shortlist to be up, they've done it but there's a problem with the link to it, so now that will be fixed after 9 tonight apparently, and the festerval starts tomorrow night. So we can only hope the few maps films that were entered made it in..
Good Journey
