Basic 3-D Makeup Course
With Dick Smith’s Basic 3-D Makeup Course, you’ll learn core skills without going to a special effects makeup school
You’ve dreamed about a career in Special Effects Makeup but you’re not sure where to begin. And you don’t have the time right now (or the big bucks) to attend a traditional makeup school so…
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How do you get there from here?
HOW ABOUT THIS:
- Learn the core skills of special effects makeup with a home study program designed by makeup legend Dick Smith.
- Create a complete prosthetic makeup with the help of easy step-by-step instructions and video.
- Have an Academy Award-Winning Makeup Artist from our faculty critique your finished project and advise you.
- All for the (ridiculously low) Tuition of $385.00 US plus the cost of materials!!!
- Click here to see Faculty Bios.
- Click Here for Basic Enrollment Course Frequently Asked Questions
Sound Like A Plan?
So now you’d probably like some details on taking this exciting first step toward your dream career…
Dick’s Basic 3-D Makeup Course teaches you the primary, essential form of makeup that a special effects makeup artist must know: how to transform an actor’s face three-dimensionally with prosthetics. Old person, alien, or corpse, the only limit is your imagination!
Here are the 5 basic technical and artistic steps you’ll learn:
- Making a life mask of the actor/model.
- Designing and sculpting your creation on that life mask.
- Making molds of the clay features you’ve created.
- Casting flexible prosthetic pieces from these molds.
- Gluing your prosthetic pieces onto your live model and coloring them to bring your creation to life.
Your finished project will be assessed by one of our ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FACULTY. This advisor will discuss your strengths and areas that need improvement with specific suggestions to achieve that improvement.
A traditional makeup school might charge you thousands of dollars for such one-on-one individual guidance from an Academy Award winner but our students get this great deal on tuition because Dick personally trained many of the profession’s top artists. Now these loyal friends are continuing his teaching tradition.
Refund Policy
You can return the Basic 3-D Makeup Course or any part of the Advanced Professional Makeup Course within 30 days of the ship date for a full refund less a 10% restocking fee.The shipping envelope or box must be unopened. We cannot issue a refund if the shipping envelope or box has been opened.
To return a course, email us at info@dicksmithmake-up.com and request a refund. We’ll send you an email with our return address and other instructions.
Once we receive your unopened course, please allow up to 20 business days to process your refund. Note: there is a 10% restocking fee on returned courses.
Weta Workshop was established in 1994 in Wellington, New Zealand by Richard and Tania Taylor, Peter Jackson, and Jamie Selkirk. Their goal: to provide special makeup effects, props and other services to local film and television productions. Today Weta Workshop is a 65,000 square foot dream factory employing over 200 artists and craftspeople, creating everything from weird creature makeups to the design for fantasy vehicles, weapons, and entire worlds for blockbusters like The Hobbit, King Kong, and Avatar. The Workshop’s extraordinary work has earned it five Academy Awards.
Mike Elizalde is an Academy Award nominated prosthetic makeup designer, animatronics designer, and Screen Actors Guild puppeteer. He is also President and Creative Director of Spectral Motion, Incorporated.
Lee Romaire Studios, Inc., founded in 2004, designs and produces extraordinary live action creature, character and mechanical effects for the entertainment industry.
Raised in Connecticut, a few miles from New York, Andrew Clement was taking the train into the city to work in the effects business even before graduating high school. He gathered any experience he could in the east coast effects community, sometimes even working for free, until it was time to attend S.U.N.Y. Purchase. While working towards his Visual Arts/Theatre Design degree, he began working on shows such as Saturday Night Live, and the films, The Princess Bride and Ridley Scott’s Black Rain. In 1985, Dick Smith began his legendary Advanced Professional Make-Up Course, and Andrew became his very first student. Armed with this life changing knowledge, he began commanding larger and more lucrative jobs.
In 1988 Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. formed Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc., which was destined to become one of the top effects labs in the industry. In 1988 Alec had enrolled in Dick Smith’s Advanced Course and found it to be a tremendous help in ADI’s quest for artistic excellence.
At a young age Mike Marino became a student and protege of legendary make-up artist Dick Smith. Through Dick’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course, Mike built the foundation and inspiration needed to excel in the field of Special Makeup Effects. Now, with over 20 years of experience in the film industry, Mike has worked with leading artists in the field, including Rob Bottin, Rick Baker and many others. As owner and designer of Prosthetic Renaissance, Mike has been able to realize his goal of leading a first rate team, elevating the art of special makeup effects.