Face Prosthetic: Research

I have made extensive notes on all four DVDs by Neill Gorton which cover the process of creating a full head prosthetic. these note include every key point that i need to cover and a list of all material needed for the creation of a head prosthetic. these DVDs are very extensive and i will probably be following the techniques very closely, i have also watched and studied Mark Alfrey's DVD on full head life casting and studied several web sites with info on head casting: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/9373/SCREAM/lifecast.html
http://www.lifecastingarts.com/procedures_head.html

I have also started my search for my reference picture and looking into sculpting techniques such as creating skin textures and wrinkles, also i have been looking into facial structure how it differs between age, sex and race.

Hair punching:

http://www.theeffectslab.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8274&highlight=hair+punching

Material suppliers:

http://www.mouldlife.co.uk/
http://www.dauphines.co.uk/index/greasecream-make-up/
http://www.formfx.eu/
http://www.smooth-on.com/
http://www.bentleychemicals.co.uk/

Moulding and casting:

http://www.theeffectslab.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7511&highlight=cleaning

FX companies:

http://www.millenniumfx.co.uk/index2.php
http://www.animatedextras.com/index.htm
http://www.robspropshop.nl/
http://www.raprops.com/home/allsoppFrameset.htm
http://www.creature-effects.com/
http://www.hybridfx.com/pages/company.htm
http://www.makeup-fx.com/Indexeng.html
http://www.nimbacreations.com/

Facial reconstruction:
http://www.philippefaraut.com/forensic.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g6uUWFPNF6YC&dq=facial+reconstruction+forensic&pg=PP1&ots=T3hN0o6kvq&source=bn&sig=HPueYOjQBY5qgUM7Ixbs-zAce5Q&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA1,M1
http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/1/evison.html
lots of interesting info on these sites, the main thing i have gained from them is that the shape of the skull dictates the shape of the face.
Prosthetic Application:
http://www.theeffectslab.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8298&highlight=usin+prosaid
http://www.makeup-fx.com/video05_apply_silicone.htm

tying the head scarf http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nfrZcgBTMM0&feature=related

Ethical issues:
what should you consider when doing a race change

http://www.theeffectslab.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6337
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-528496/Sneak-peek-Robert-Downey-Jrs-controversial-new-comedy.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1048700.stm
http://io9.com/5039142/race-has-little-to-do-with-genetic-makeup-say-scientists
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8Bboanc2l6AC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=cosmetic+surgery+race+change&source=web&ots=2fpksmkQtv&sig=NVreERI3Y6qiLMmBzmmAJli2dUs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result

Psychology of masks, acting and transformation makeup:

http://www.ceeba.at/arts/arts_masques_africains.htm
http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_your_hallowe_en_mask_reveals
http://www.archive.org/stream/masksorfacesstud00archuoft/masksorfacesstud00archuoft_djvu.txt

"IN some cultures masks are thought to have a life of their own, and wearing a mask allows the life of that mask to be lived through the person. it is strangely powerful to wield another face it is about allowing inner aspects of oneself to be expressed through a medium which holds anonymity. Being something which you are while not being seen as you. Almost as if the known you, is not responsible or accountable for the behavior done while wearing the mask. As the watcher of someone wearing a mask, it is also imaginative wildfire, it could be anyone up there playing guitar or drums. it frees people up to believe or imagine what they desire, the reality is probably the people behind the masks are quite ordinary."(the Sage) http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080115173144AAMGvVw

Some quotes from Making faces playing God;

"transformation becomes largely and end in its self, a way of escaping from, toying with, and manipulating identity." p.153

"What seduces and unsettles us uniquely with makeup illusion is the sense of a personal encounter, the subliminal assurance that we could spontaneously meet and interact with these invented beings as persons, just as we have intercourse with natural persons in unscripted, unfilmed life. A character that can step out of the frame, off the screen, and proceed with a life of its own.... what destrurbs us about the makeup illusion(and what is the explicit goal of the makeup process) is the creation of an autonomous physical being that can assume a distinct physical and natural presence." p.43

"For obvious reasons, the racial transformation is one of the makeup artist's ultimate tests. every race has characteristic features nearly impossible to camouflage-Asian eyes, the long Caucasian nose, the fleshy lips of the African. The paradox of the makeup artist's illusions, namely that addition must look like subtraction if the invented face in not to look unnatural. With racial transformation, the complications are multiplied." p.142

"Make up artist emphasise that every prosthetic make up is a compromise with the limitations of of the medium, and no project mimics real flesh and real movement in all lights and circumstances." p.150

Plastic surgery:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_2001_July/ai_77959846
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020805/story2.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-xiQ5JICxiEC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=cosmetic+surgery+race+change&source=web&ots=3XGPT4i_Qe&sig=2qLMcqPOqQ_DtliVtpOHXjWWuFM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA33,M1

Medical prosthetics:

http://www.huntsmancancer.org/group/prosthesis/facialProsthetics.jsp
http://www.prosthesis.com/default.htm
http://www.millenniummedical.co.uk/practitioners.php
http://www.medicalartprosthetics.com/

Books:

Portrait sculpting by Philippe Faraut
Making faces playing god by Thomas Morawetz
Facial expressions by Mark Simon
Anatomy for the artist by Barrington Barber
image research: Nomads of Niger,the art of Benin, the people of Kau

DVD's:

Creating character prosthetics in silicone by Neill Gorton (All four DVD'S from which i made over 30 pages of notes)
Philippe Faraut's sculpting DVD's
Mark Alfrey's sculpting the human head
Mark Alfrey's ultimate life casting
Mark Alfrey's prosthetics make-up for beginners.

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