Prosthetic Renaissance

2017-09-25T05:58:53+00:00

Prosthetic Renaissance 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 [...]

Amalgamated Dynamics

2017-09-25T05:58:53+00:00

Amalgamated Dynamics 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 [...]

Creative Character Engineering

2017-09-25T05:58:54+00:00

Creative Character Engineering 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 [...]

Lee Romaire Studios

2017-09-25T05:58:54+00:00

Lee Romaire Studios Lee Romaire Studios, Inc., founded in 2004, designs and produces extraordinary live action creature, character and mechanical effects for the entertainment industry. Romaire Studios’ TV, movie and commercial highlights include: War of the Worlds, Cats and Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore, The Rebound, The Dictator, The Battle Ground segment [...]

Spectral Motion

2017-09-25T05:58:54+00:00

Spectral Motion 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. Born in Mexico in 1960, Mike immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was five [...]

Weta Workshop

2017-09-25T05:58:54+00:00

Weta Workshop 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 [...]

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