‘Tawhl’ the Dwarf Warrior – Final Character assessment

31 January 2021 – Cutabove Academy Level 5 Diploma Special FX & Prosthetic Makeup Assessment – Today was the big day, 10 months of learning the ropes of prosthetic making, the last and final assessment. The big one…. Since April 2020, I have been learning and been challenged with character design, sculpting, casting, drafting, running to organising a photoshoot to …

Casting of the horns

27 December 2021 – Cutabove Academy, Auckland I told myself I would cast the horns before the end of the year, and today I finally got over my hesitation, using new products, and just did it. For the outer layer, I used a thin coat of Barnes Rotothane, fast setting rigid polyurethane and for the filling I chose Barnes R-Foam …

Face Casting

16 November 2021 – Cutabove Academy Assessment Level 5 Diploma Special FX makeup & prosthetic making Today, I got assessed on the practical skill of face casting, which is the first step to creating the mold for our prosthetic we will use for our final character assessment. We were taught the process, using Alginate and plaster bandages. With the help …

Sock Mold for 2nd horn

13 November 2021 – Cutabove Academy, Auckland I decided to practice a sock mold for the second horn. It is definitely a harder process than the 2 part mold, but I persevered and in the end managed to come up with a satisfactory result. The things I would do different: I used a bit much pinkysil in places and the …

2 Part mold for horns

13 November 2021 – Cutabove Academy, Auckland This week, we learnt how to do a 2-part mold for horns, and I took on the project to fix some broken horns that were in the workshop. I started with deconstructing and cleaning the horns and sculpting the broken off tips with NSP clay. Once that was done the molding process started. …

Design challenge; Interview with a Vampire

15 September 2021 – Cut Above Academy – Diploma in Special FX & Prosthetic Makeup Artistry Level 5 Task 1 : Watch the movie! Take notes during the movie so answering the questions after will be super easy! •1. After hearing Louis’s story, would you want to be a vampire? •2.Why do you think the boy is interviewing the vampire? …

Disney Design Challenge

31 August 2021 – Cut Above Academy – Diploma in Special FX & Prosthetic Makeup Artistry Level 5 Hey team, Your Challenge today is to redesign a disney characters costume to be more hisorically correct to the time period that the movie is set in. Think about: What country they are in time period climate materials they would have used …