Address: 5160 Vineland ave., ste. 107-338, United States
N. Scott Willis
818.917.4717
fxmakeupman@gmail.com
myspace.com/fxmakeupman
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Lab Tech Moldmaker Application Sculptor Painter Runner Skin Technician
Education
Cinema Makeup School - Master Course - Graduated 12/08
Savannah College of Art and Design - BFA - Motion Graphics - Graduated 06/03
Skills
Sculptor - Experienced with WED and oil based clays (Chavant, Roma, etc.) as well as Super Sculpy and wax.
Moldmaker - Experience with 1630, Ultracal, Hydrocal, Silicone, Epoxy, Urethane, and Fiber-Glass to make a variety of molds such as Silicone Case Molds, Box Molds, Multi-piece Molds, Epoxy Syntactic Dough Molds, and Matrix Molds.
Lab Tech - Dental Acrylics, Rigid and soft polyfoams, as well as various plastics, Lifecasting, urethanes, seaming, patching, Hair Punching, and Slush Casting
Skin Runner/Producer - Foam Latex, Translucent platinum and tin based silicones, Platsil GFA systems, used in open pour, injection, and scrape molds.
Painter - Airbrush (single and dual actions) Inks, PAX, Silicone paints, stenciling, Acrylics, Latex, and Oil
Application - Prosthetic Appliance, Trauma, Wound Simulation, Old-Age, Bald Caps, Faux Hair (Yak, Human, Synthetic), Natural Beauty, High Fashion, Period, Avant-garde, Body painting, and Hair Styling
Set Experience - Key Makeup, Assistant for makeup and SFX, Blood Cannon operation, and Touch-ups. I own a cell phone and am willing and able to use my mini-van for transportation and delivery.
Experience
"Treasure of the Black Jaguar- Onset makeup Artist, SFX artist
"Shuffle" - Lab Tech, Mold Maker, Casting
"Sanguinas- Key Makeup artist, Vampire Makeup, Blood spatter effects
"Pursuit"- Key Makeup artist, Corrective, Trauma
"Blasphemy"- Key makeup artist, Laying faux Beards, Corrective, Zombie makeup
"Safe" - Makeup Artist, Corpse Bodypaint
"Zombie Hooker" - Assistant Makeup Artist and wardrobe Contributor
"Chain Letter" - Shop technician. Mold making, pouring and painting various prosthetics and props using foam latex and polyfoam
"Night of the Templar" - Shop technician / On-set SFX makeup artist, Blood Cannon operation
"Blood Shot" - Shop technician
"Lure" - Shop technician, On-set beauty and SFX makeup artist.
"The Sign" - Key Beauty and SFX Makeup
"University by the Sea"- Trauma/SFX makeup for an art festival in Long Beach
Employment
4/2009 - 6/2009 - Proteus FX/Barney Burman - Pacoima, CA - Lab Tech
Making molds and casting silicone pieces for a variety of old-age makeups.
1/2009-Almost Human-Eagle Rock, CA-Lab Technician
Casting polyfoam for shop display pieces including a fat man, full burn/zombie body, a little boy, and a "Frankenfish".
Casting cabopatch wound prosthetics on silicone scrape molds.
6/2008-8/2008-Blizzard Entertainment/Stephen Wang-Irvine, CA-Lab Technician
Making fiberglass molds and running polyfoam pieces for "Kerrigan" a display model showcased at Blizzardcon for the Starcraft 2 video game.
5/2008-All Set-Burbank, CA-Sculptor
One of a two man team Sculpting a 6 ft. apple pie out of styrofoam for "Pushing Daises". Sealed with a resin gun.
10/2007 03/2008-American Makeup FX-Van Nuys, CA-Lab Technician
Assisting onset with makeup and blood FX. Mold making and casting a variety of molds, props, and prosthetics.
References
Leonard Engleman-Academy Governor and Mentor-213.368.1234
Barney Burman-Mentor- Proteus FX- 818.896.9966
Lee Joyner-Mentor-818.943.7880
J.D.Bowers-Mentor-513.288.5001
