El Maldito, the vampire-western. caution: blood and gore

Here's the story of the student film El Maldito in a nutshell while showing off my makeup: Joel, this 19th century western vampire, kills someone:

The sheriff takes him away on a train, which is attacked by these three other vampires:

They kill some people, thus:

These vampires don't have fangs, so when they bite someone, they rip and tear:

Struggle, struggle, Joel and the vampire's sister jump off the train.

Nicole points a gun at him in front of a campfire. They go back to the train for her brother.

Nicole gets slashed across the face, and the sheriff gets elbowed in the nose, but they kill most of the vampires, and take Joel home with them.

One week later, their maladies are healing, but look sore:

Nicole's scar was great fun. The director said very specifically that she didn't want a "hot girl" scar, like they usually have in movies.

Here, I'm touching up Nicole's scar, but I put this up so you can see how ill Joel looks. I realized too late that we didn't really have any pictures of him in sick makeup. Click on the picture to see it bigger, and his makeup better:

The vampire and the sheriff's sister. classic:

It was my very first student film project. We shot in February and March. Lots of fun: fun crew, fun cast, fun story. My regret: Nicole's wig. Learned a lot.
Director: Vanessa Barney
DP: Tenille Olsen

Megan's poor arm

Class project for advanced makeup a few months ago. The story is she fell off her bike onto gravely concrete. She fell hard. Thank you to my roommate for being my model.

Gunshot wound; caution: blood and gore

Entrance wound:

Exit wound:

For another mock disaster. School shooting. The exit wound is awfully big, so... it was an expanding bullet, yeah?

a compound fracture; caution: blood and gore

I did this for a mock disaster. I used a pre-made gelatin mold, which is why the bone is sticking out so unrealistically far. Still looks pretty sick.

severed macbeth head; caution: blood and gore

I worked on this with two other people. We made it for use as a prop in the BYU theatre production of Macbeth. Macduff carries it onstage in the final scene after wounding MacB and chasing him offstage. It created quite the reaction :)

We took a mold of the actor's face, made a plaster cast from that, then used this suction-machine thing in the scene shop to form a sheet of latex (or something) around the plaster cast into a sort of mask of the actor's face. Then we mounted it on a styrofoam head block, I painted it and added eyelashes, Melanie Kowallis did the wig and eyebrows, and Shiloh White did the stub of a neck. I think everybody had a hand in making it all bloody.

I wish I had a picture of Hank, the actor. It's way creepy to see him next to his own severed head.

Nick, Halloween 2008, caution: blood and gore

Nick asked me to do this for Halloween last year. It was a lot of fun, and turned out pretty well, even though I had to use putty, again, not my favorite. At least it was good enough to make people gawk all day throughout his classes and various activities.
:)