No pictures, molds are really boring. This took way longer to do than I had hoped for. But between an infected tooth, it’s removable and 5 days of CGI hell with a client sometimes these things happen. Besides the client is an old friend and the CGI was fun sort of. Plus he threw some green screen work at me to.
Next I pour up the first Sixth Finger mask. A Thrake master. And finish the big Seaview. Fun week ahead!
Steve
Molding tomorrow!
Tomorrow a bit more clean up and smoothing and I’m off to mold it. Next up, “the Werewolf of London”.
Steve
This is the test make up I created and later wore in the opening of Laser Blast minus the eye contacts and teeth. Looks like yesterday. Feels like yesterday too. Notice the Star Wars pin they gave out when the movie first opened. May the Force be with you. So far for me it has been and I’m most grateful!!
Steve
To be perfectly blunt. Remember. Memorial Day is about the Veterans. Not barbeque’s, sports, soccer and family outings. It’s about the men and women that fought for you to have the freedom to do all that stuff on this 3 day weekend. If you’re out and about and see a vet stop and shake his or her hand and thank them. I saw a WW2 Vet the other day in Home Depot. He was a medic in the marines in the pacific theater. How did I know? He was in a wheel chair and proudly wore a cap with WW2 vet on it. Do it! You’ll have met a real hero.
It’s so important to them. Waether you believe in the good fight or not they did and their reasons for doing it was to protect you form the bad guys. And that they did.
Thanks to all vets that have served to protect us and our way of life!
Steve
My old school friend Mike McLeod dreamed up this character for one of his books. Originally it had 5 eyes but somewhere along the line I made a mask based on it for a TV show which later led to a Mask company selling them. They called it Seemore. Recently the fans of mask collecting found out I was the original sculptor and asked if I’d bring it back. And I am. But he’s a bit different once again.
Here’s the original mask based on Mike’s design I did in the early 70s.
And here’s the mask I made in the 80s for a show I did in Japan. Foam rubber with moving brows and eyes.
And here’s the rough clay sculpture started of the new mask. More soon.
Steve
Paul took a lot of pictures back in the 70s when I was starting out. Here’s a few more. This was my first Gorilla suit Paul on the left and David Ayres who is an old friend and I first met him when working at Don Post in the early 70s.
Still going through old pictures.
I did this Sixth Finger makeup on myself for EquiCon 75.
Unseen by the fans until now this picture shows Lt to Rt Bob Burns, Steve Neill, and Dale Parks. We worked together on a TV show who’s name escapes me now. These were fun time.
Rt to Lt Bob Burns, me, and Gilly. Oh and Doug Jones to the far Rt as Mac. Few people new my shop created Mac and that Bob Burns puppeteered the mouth while Gilly and I moved his lips to form words. We did many fun shoots together and it was always a fun time with Bob and all the jokes about the producers, some which can’t be told online!! LOL!!
And Bob Burns on the Rt and me on the left picking mites and bugs from our fur.
Just found out Ricky Schwartz passed away in April. His brother Bobby called me to let me know. He passed away in his sleep from health complications.
I lot of people will have a lot of things to say about Ricky bad and good but I got to tell ya this. If it wasn’t for my meeting of Ricky back in 74 at a San Francisco Star Trek Convention I would have known anyone here, never came to LA, and met some of the great ones that started out my career. I had a lot of great times with Ricky. And many many of you have some famous molds, props, and costumes because of his 5 fingered discount antics. Not to mention the Flying Subs and a few other models. They would have all ended up in the Fox land fill anyway.
Ricky. I owe you for my career, some great times, and great friends I still have today because of you. I never got a Ricky Schartz Award but just knowing you was reward enough.You will be missed. Enjoy the Nexus. It’s got to a better place!
Here’s Ricky at my apartment in Toluca Lake back in 78.
Steve
It was great to visit today with Whitley. He also shot a short video of the event and posted it on his Face Book page.
