ADI: Creating the Ultimate Alien & Other Challenges
Joe Nazzaro
Job Share
Janet Flora
Make-up Oscars
Michael Mallory
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CNN: High Res News by John Calhoun
As CNN moves to HDTV, the cable news giant makes an unprecedented move to all-airbrush make-up. Tara Young, make-up supervisor at CNN's Atlanta headquarters, says the change was driven by several factors. Calhoun talks to Young and other artists about the transition.
ADI: Creating the Ultimate Alien & Other Challenges by Joe Nazzaro
Over the past decade and a half, Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., better known as Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. (ADI), have built giant bugs for Starship Troopers, outlandish jungle animals in Jumanji and the killer worms of Tremors. They also have worked on the last three Alien films, making them Hollywood's resident experts on xenomorphic biology.
Make-up artists have discovered the benefits of job sharing to lessen the burden of having more than one project come up at the same time. One of the advantages to job sharing is having more time to spend with families, especially children. Flora talks with artists about how they share the work load.
It is Oscar® season again, and if someone were to make a film based on the 2004 competitions in virtually all categories, it might be titled Race Wide Open. This includes the make-up category, for which there is no one film considered to have an inside lead, but rather more than a dozen that are generating Oscar® buzz among reviewers and industry insiders. Contenders include: Hellboy, Ray, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, De-Lovely and The Aviator.
