Howard Berger - Masters of Make-Up Effects

Masters of

Make-up effects

Actors can have their highs and lows. Directors do. Producers do. Almost everyone does. But the make-up artist cant. They dont have that luxury. They have to keep that calm hand and head in the middle of what can sometimes be absolute madness.

Richard Taylor

The friendships I made doing this stuff, and the good times we had together, thats really what its all about, man. Weve been in the trenches together, and now we get to tell the stories.

Norman Cabrera

Published in 2022 by Welbeck

An Imprint of Welbeck Non-Fiction Limited,

part of Welbeck Publishing Group.

Based in London and Sydney.

www.welbeckpublishing.com

Design and layout Welbeck Non-Fiction Limited 2022

Text Howard Berger and Marshall Julius 2022

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners and the publishers.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 80279 EISBN 80279

Editors: Ross Hamilton & Roland Hall

Design: Russell Knowles, Darren Jordan

Production: Rachel Burgess

Printed in China

Dedications

Howard

I dedicate this book to the ones who have always told me the truth: my wife Mirjam, and my children Kelsey, Travis and Jacob. Thank you for tolerating my obsession with Monsters, Movies and Make-up.

Marshall

This book is for my daughters, Martyna, Maia and Phoebe. Youre excellent sports, wonderful fun, and I love you even more than robots, aliens and monsters.

Masters of

make-up effects

A Century of Practical Magic

Howard Berger & Marshall Julius

Foreword by

Guillermo del Toro

Afterword by

seth macfarlane

HALL OF FAME

Making faces

CONTENTS

WHat dreams are made of

to glue or not to glue

BREAKING IN

TeamWork Makes the Dream Work

the seed of invention

lets do the time warp

the monster club

reel lives

featured creatures

war stories

the gore the merrier

Lessons learned

theyre alive!

INTRODUCTION

BY howard Berger

INTRODUCTION

Howard

Berger

A t eight years old I found my calling to become a Special Make-up Effects Artist like my idols Stan Winston, Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Rob Bottin. I lived, dreamed and breathed monsters and make-up 24/7. From the time I saw Planet of the Apes , when it first opened in 1968, I figured there were people who created these characters and I wanted to be one of them.