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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 18h

Found a copy of 'Making a Monster' by Al Taylor, and hey it's got some pics from '78 Body Snatchers I hadn't seen before! check it out now makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/09/inva...

Close-up shot of the face prosthetic on Joe Gieb

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A bit fannish but I pretend the Tommyknockers come from the same star system as Isserley's from Under the Skin. hey they're both canid aliens in their books lol (The Tommyknockers miniseries went for a gnarly Grey look but this French cover made them evil Selenites? artwork by Matthieu Blanchin)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Humanised Looney Tunes characters? Oh where have I seen that before

hideous ugly human version of Pepe Le Pew from notoriously bad cartoon Loonatics Unleashed. I am struck by how 'tumblr sexyman' this garbage design is, despite that tumblr afaik did not even exist then

Similarly wretched human verson of Foghorn Leghorn from Loonatics. This is not quite as hideously tumblr sexyman as the Pepe Le Pew but I'm furious cos I like Foghorn more

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just tweaked this just now to include the rest of Mike Tucker's work on the show (otherwise the rest was all middling CGI) makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Mike Tucker with a miniature submarine model for 'Cold War'

Mike Tucker about to film a smashing sequence in 'The Day of the Doctor'

The spaceship miniature filmed for 'The Time of the Doctor'

A miniature house also being destroyed for 'The Time of the Doctor'

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some of the stuff here is copied from my previous article about the first series' creature effects, which included Mike Tucker's contributions (with the Dalek prop and the miniature Emperor) makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/06/doct...

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh they made a crappy looking Doctor Who cartoon? Who cares, when instead check out this thing I wrote about the miniature effects done by Mike Tucker's Model Unit for the 2005 Doctor Who's first series makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

The miniature Big Ben being destroyed for 'Aliens of London'

The miniature tower block made for 'The Christmas Invasion'

The miniature barrage balloon made for 'The Empty Child'

The miniature factory ceiling made for 'Rose'

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well that's it for Body Snatchers films, as now it's the original 1956 film! Sadly the older these films are, the less chance there is of finding solid quotes or images... makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/10/inva...

Dana Wynter with the lifecasting mould used to create her 'pod person' duplicate body prop.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And the follow-up article! Abel Ferrara's overlooked 1993 Body Snatchers, which ostensibly was meant as a sequel to the 1978 film anyway. makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/10/body...

Half-formed pod person puppet head from the Burman Studio for Body Snatchers (1993)

Half-formed pod person puppet by the Burman Studio for Body Snatchers (1993)

Fetus-like puppet operating from inside a translucent pod prop, made by the Burman Studio for Body Snatchers

One of the 50+ pods made by Matt Marich and Star Fields for Body Snatchers

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More makeup designs by Thomas R. Burman for assorted films he worked on (Part 2 of 2)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for Anjelica Huston as the Supreme Leader in Captain EO (1986)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for the tormented spirits in Scrooged (1988)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for Ernest Borgnine's demon in The Devil's Rain (1975)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Makeup design drawings by Thomas R. Burman for various films he worked on. (Part 1 of 2)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for the infamous man dog from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for the Sayer of the Law in Island of Dr Moreau (1977)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for the nuclear burned humans in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Thomas Burman's makeup design for the 'sun dance' chest wounds in A Man Called Horse (1970)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New article on the first day of October, you don't say! About Thomas Burman's work on Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (and also the brief miniature effects for the opening too) makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/09/inva...

The miniature effects sequence for the film's opening

Donald Sutherland with an actor in prosthetics in his likeness

Joe Geib in heavy makeup as a half-formed pod person leaving its pod

Sorry I couldn't find behind the scenes stuff of the infamous dog man

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My new glasses came today, meaning past mundane stuff...I can research and write articles again.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking up what Scott Cawthon looks like nowadays. You're welcome

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's some more of Christopher Goodman's older horror-themed artwork, its so good

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What became 'SCP 106' was originally painted by Christopher Goodman in the early 2000s Goodman is a really talented artist and I was famikiar with him as is for his work on Doctor Who and Red Dwarf for Millennium FX. (These are from his insta)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For example, is whatever SCP fanfic that was written actually more interesting than Mark Powell's own diorama sculptures? Sadly his actual site has been offline for years, but theres a Flickr gallery archiving his work. Great stuff: www.flickr.com/photos/16313...

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love your artwork! This piece in particular actually reminded me of this piece by Hugo Steiner-Prag, 'The Golem' (Steiner-Prag was a major influence on Albin Grau, who did the art direction for the original Nosferatu film)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I still can't write or research new articles, but I did tweak my Tales from the Darkside: The Movie article with several new images. makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2024/09/tale...

The mummy suit by KNB EFX for the first segment of the Tales from the Darkside movie.

The final stage transformation prosthetic on Rae Dawn Chong, by KNB EFX for the third segment of the Tales from the Darkside movie.

Mike Deak in the gargoyle suit made by KNB EFX for the third segment of the Tales from the Darkside movie.

One of the kiddy gargoyle suits (or was it the puppet?) by KNB EFX for the final segment of the Tales from the Darkside movie

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also this Paul Davidson artwork for another choose your own adventure style series, 'Monster Hunter' (seems to be a bit more recent) also is very fun. No full moon tho lol

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This artwork by Martin McKenna for Fighting Fantasy's 'Howl of the Werewolf' (a Choose Your Own Adventure type book) comes to mind (This artwork always gets reposted without credit!! Its annoying)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's why I would like to cover pre-1950 work, as even before Jack Pierce there was elaborate makeups. These were done in the 1900s by Morton Cavendish, an actor applying his own makeups! Pics from The Art of Theatrical Make-Up (1909)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The goofy skateboarder segment in VHS Viral with makeup FX by Vincent Guastini. By his own admission they were pastiches of Tombs of the Blind Dead.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Egyptian Surrealists may also be of interests, they had a fair amount of women among them too, Amy Nimr is a particular fav of mine!!

Amy Nimr's 'Untitled (Anatomical Corpse)', 1940

Amy Nimr's 'Untitled (Underwater Skeleton)', 1940

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Theres a similar werecat monster in Waxwork 2 (that Paul Jones also worked on but under Bob Keen, the Hellraiser guy) and I wonder if he had a hand in that ones design

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, I actually fixed this up a week or so ago, but the Cursed article was revamped too! (I wish I could find pics of the weredog puppet, you only see it in the film for 2 seconds) makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2023/04/curs...

Eddie Yang's maquette for the Joanie wolf suit in Cursed

Judy Greer in stage one face and torso prosthetics for her transformation (that was entirely cut and replaced with CG) in Cursed

Judy Greer in later stage face and torso prosthetics for her (cut) transformation in Cursed

The KNB EFX crew with the suit they made that was (more or less) an imitation of the Cinovation suit from the original cut.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And here's the very last overhauled article, on the Kessler Wolf rig itself! makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-a...

Rick Baker sculpting the design maquette for the Kessler Wolf

A shot of the Kessler Wolf head pulling his best Aphex Twin impression

A shot of the Kessler Wolf suit/rig tested in a workshop

The Kessler Wolf suit/rig being operated on set

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And most recently ie done just an hour ago...the overhauled article on the transformation makeups! I'm getting around to doing the Kessler Wolf one in a sec! makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-a...

David Naughton in the nicknamed 'Popeye' hand prosthetics

Tom Hester with the dummy body for the later stage of the transformation

The 'manbeast' puppet at the very end of the transformation sequence, along with the crew (and that John Landis guy)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And the revamped part 2 section with focused on the undead Jack Goodman, with a lot more new pics. Gore warning, of course. makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-a...

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Gonna post this here, but funny I was finally tweaking the articles on American Werewolf in London just a bit after the film's 45'th anniversary! Part one gets into how John Landis came up with the film, how he got Rick Baker, and the dream demons makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-a...

Rick Baker's sculpt for the first of the dream demons

A polaroid of someone wearing the bald dream demon that Tom Hester sculpted

Rick Baker (and his hand) working on a sculpture for the werewolves for The Howling before he was taken off the film by John Landis throwing his toys out the pram

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Idly looking up Ghostwatch stuff and kinda loving just how underwhelming the ghost actually is in behind the scenes pics.

Keith Ferrari in makeup and costume as 'Pipes', the evil ghost in Ghostwatch

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Assorted images of the stopmotion Diadara and Mezzick-Muul that was sadly omitted from the theatrical cut of Clive Barker's Nightbreed. The film's stopmotion was worked on by Rory Fellows and Neville Buchanan (pictured in the first and third images). Buchanan sadly passed away last week

An earlier version of the Mezzick-Muul and Diadara stopmo puppets.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reminded of this banger quote from an interview with Sergio Salvati (cinematographer for Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy) conducted by Fangoria in the 90s

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some more images that Wayne Dang sent me via Yoshida! I wonder which episode of either X-Files or Millennium the blob-like creature is, it doesnt ring a bell...

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Been getting more X-Files (and Millennium) behind the scenes stuff! These images by Wayne Dang were provided to me via Vincent Yoshida (Dang avoids public internet), so much thanks to both!

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is what Fulci got right (and to be fair Romero when he had more of a budget in Day of the Dead). The EC Comics / ultra decayed looking zombies are the most fun ones

Closeup of Giannetto De Rossi's Schweik makeup for The Beyond (1981)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New article! The makeup effects / creature effects for Ken Russell's Gothic (1986)! Again have to thank Graham High for being so kind to send several behind the scenes images of his work on this film! (Mild warning for dead baby props) makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/08/goth...

The phantom knight realized as a skull coated in a mask made from steaks

Graham High's anatomical sculpture model

A dummy made in the likeness of Timothy Spall for when bugs crawl out of his character's mouth

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Tag yourself... (found this Howling III photo in a Cinefantastique scan)

Philippe Mora surrounded by three actresses in werewolf face prosthetics. I wonder if there's more Howling 3 pics out there!! Cos there's never enough!

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here's some more of the pics Charlie Grant sent me, showing the actual uterus prop in detail (and also a photo of Lindala's 'workshop' - at the time it was his basement!)

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

(Gore warning) Photos that were kindly provided to me the other day by Charlie Grant, showing the work he did on the X-Files episode 'Fearful Symmetry'. Lindala's team made the elephant corpse prop, as well as bits like the elephant uterus.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

the other day I saw this little guy (a juvenile seagull) loafing in the middle of the road. I was worried at first he was sick, but seemingly not as I got them to fly away I usually wouldn't bug critters but again, it was sitting in the middle of the road and I didnt want this critter hit by a car

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Alien mask (seemingly inspired by the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter) made for an episode of the 1978 TV series Project UFO. The episode is 'The Howard Crossing Incident' but I don't know who made the masks; there isn't a credit and I don't think it's be the credited makeup artist.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Was in Edinburgh last Saturday (visiting family the last week), took some nice shots of Castle Rock and Arthurs Seat

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Selected production artworks made for the 1980 Special Edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). The Special Edition featured a sequence of Richard Dreyfuss entering the alien mothership, primarily designed by Ron Cobb.

Production artwork for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I don't think this is by George Jensen, is it by Joe Alves or someone else?

Ron Cobb artwork for the mothership interior sequence in the Special Edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm not a geneticist but it's a not uncommon deformity in a fair few mammal species. Canids get it a lot especially; pet dogs, coyotes, even foxes get it

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My fav crappy cryptid is the Kellas Cat. No wonder Nessie is the celebrity Scottish cryptid when the only other one of note is 'a cat. a bit of an odd cat, but a cat'

A taxidermied Kellas Cat. yeah its just what happens when wildcats mate with pet cats. how scary. love em tho

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Two more of George Jensen's UFO artworks for Close Encounters

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Assorted production artworks by George Jensen for the UFOs in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Jensen was heavily involved on visualising and storyboarding the film.

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just one example of many; I also saw one in the wild for the '78 Body Snatchers. Theres tons for Home Alone too somehow

AI generated fake 'behind the scenes' screenshot of a scene in Robocop that was entirely shot on location. Why do you need to bullshit?

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Movie Magic Liker @makeupfxarchive.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Once again reposting this; my article on Carlo Rambaldi's creature effects work on Zulawski's Possession (1981) RIP Sam Neill, who delivered a fantastic performance in this film. makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/07/poss...

Carlo Rambaldi and Andrzej Zulawski with a sculpture and design drawings of the creature in Possession

Carlo Rambaldi with the creature puppet for Possession

The creature puppet of Possession being prepared for shooting

Fake blood being applied on the creature puppet of Possession

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