WOLFMAN PROJECT

This was another project I recently worked on for a friend of mine when we attended the WONDERFEST model convention in Louisville, Kentucky. He had this idea for me to do this makeup job on him for the Saturday night Pizza Party in one of the lounge's there so he could just run around being crazy. He is a BIG guy - about 6'5" or there abouts and is a VERY imposing figure of a man WITHOUT this makeup on. But he just wanted to have a little fun running around in this makeup scaring all the little kids and people who he could sneak up behind and frighten. IT WORKED!!! He had little kids crying and running to their parents - delightful!! It was a blast to do. When he originally asked me to do this, I thought I'd do something reasonably easy. But the more I got into it, the more I decided to try to accomplish with it. I don't like to do things half way.

Well suffice it to say, he didn't intend for me to go to the extremes I did with this. But since I don't do things half way, I decided to use Michael Davy's FOAMED GELATIN kits to accomplish the prosthetic I used. He expected I was only going to do a "paint job" with some fake hair. I warned him what I had in store and he was excited at the prospect. He ran around in that for only about an hour or two at the most. He sweats like all of us combined so I had to do what I could to keep it together. I built the scuplt on a life cast of myself as he and I have about the same size face and I figured I could just do a generic piece - which I did. It fit fairly well on him (gladly). But then we went to applying all this and it was a job and a half. Took about 2 - 3 hours to get it all on. Laying all the hair was a time consuming issue. I now feel for Chaney Jr. and Jack Pierce who did this for the Wolfman film many years ago. But the effect was great. Coupled that with some "pre-made" gloves of the werewolf type and it worked to complete the makeup job. This was just for fun at the convention but I think it came off pretty well overall. HE was happy, people were frightened, and I had a great time doing it and he did too. SO I guess you can say that the desired effect was accomplished. And now I have a great mold I can make any number of these prosthetics from for, say Halloween. But then I never get invited to Halloween parties as everyone assumes I'm already doing something. Maybe I'll use it to scare the neighborhood kids. Yeah, that's the ticket!!

This is the hotel desk where I setup a lot of the
stuff I used for the application. Made a mess and I don't like to.
But then, I DID clean up after myself.

Front view of the foamed gelatin presthetic I sculpted and used.
I pre-colored it with a grayish PAX to sort of match the wolf gloves I used.

Another view of the prosthetic.

I began laying on the hair on the neck. He wanted to keep his shirt
open at the front so I had to take the hair down fairly far.

Side view of above.

Here I darkened around the eyes and on the nose - as well as his beard.
I tried to get him to shave but he wouldn't. Made laying the hair tough.

Opposite view of above.

Here I've added the wig and the prosthetic. If you have seen this
web site before, you might notice the wig is the one I used
on the wolf for the INTO THE WOODS project I did 4 years ago.
I modified it a little and it worked well for this. Saved on laying hair.

This is a front view of the prosthetic. I didn't have to worry about blending edges
except aroun the eyes and mouth
as they wouldn't be seen under the hair anyway.

This is a closeup of the finished makeup without the bottom
teeth and graphically altered eyes.

View of finished makeup WITH the acrylic bottom teeth I made
and graphically altered eyes - no contacts here (no time).

Another shot of the final makeup with the gloves and costume, etc. A rather imposing figure.

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