Welcome to This Blog

Hello and Welcome to this blog!

 My name is Amanda Shachnaey, I am a second year Media Make-up student, part of the course we study is based in special effects and prosthetic make-up. 

This Blog will allow you to see the process behind a complete facial prosthetic make up, I say facial as we will be covering only these areas, but in order to create a full body prosthesis, the same or similar techniques are carried out, the process is a long laborious one. 

If I was working in film or T.V. Creating a creature for something for example like; Star-Trek or Dr Who? Then there would be a team creating, each member of that team would have a different job and in reality, you would rarely be applying your finished design, 

The reason I wanted to highlight this process is purely for those who enjoy and find this process an inspiration it, then dispels any unrealistic expectations that it is all on you, it is a lot of work, time consuming and personally I feel it must be the very nature of you, eating, sleeping and breathing this kind of stuff really helps. 

So now that I have explained the facts here are the basics:

As our task we were asked to choose from seven different titles

 

Ancient One

Demonic Nightmare

Strange Beauty

Industrial Oddity

Weird Beast

Metamorphosis

The Future

I chose strange beauty, the reason for this is simple, I feel that I have more room to manoeuvre in this title, I also feel that it will suit the model I have chosen, as she is tall, has beautiful eyes and a soft face, I am able to change her appearance dramatically, but I feel that utilising what I can from her, will give me a better finished result as it will flow.  

    The next stages are as follows:
 

1.           The cast

2.           The Making of the Mould

3.           The sculpt

4.           The making of the prosthetic pieces

5.           Application
 

    Not forgetting prior to all this The Design.