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Hello and

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welcome to our series of special effects
tutorial videos.

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Within this small series of videos,
we're going to be covering

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some various different special effects
within them.

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We're going to look at some sculpting,
some molding,

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some silicone
prosthetic makeup applications.

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And we're also going to be looking
at some hand making as well

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as some hair punching
to create some different characters.

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So what is special effects?

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Special effects
make up has been used for many,

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many decades
within the film and TV industry.

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When we go back to the very early days,
characters such as the original Phantom of

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the Opera were created by using fish hooks
and fishing wire to deform the face.

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Fortunately, nowadays,
we have much safer techniques.

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Nowadays we use a lot of products, things
like silicone, foam, latex

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and a lot more skin safe products
than what they had back in the day.

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But if you watch films such as Star Wars,
Star Trek, Harry Potter,

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you will see lots of special effects
makeup

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within that, creating different
characters, aliens and creatures.

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Special effects isn't just limited
to character makeup and prosthetics.

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We also have lots of different things
that happen within this area.

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There's a very long process
when it comes to making prosthetics

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that starts from creating
an actual character concept.

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Then that is taken through to sculptures,
which will sculpt those characters,

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or sculp those prosthetics,
which will then go through

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to a molding department for them to mold
what has been sculpted.

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This will then be ran by professionals
within these droducts of what

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the prosthetics are going to be made,
whether it's foam latex or silicone.

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These products then
go to a painting department to be finished

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and eventually
then make their way onto a film

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set to be applied by the special effects
and prosthetics artist.

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So when you see these characters

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on film and TV, you may only see them
for a very small amount of time,

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but there is a massive process
and months and months of preparation work

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that goes into creating those characters
for the scenes.

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Other things that happen within
the special effects world

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are things like, in the medical sector
casual simulation.

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So creating real injuries,
not just on film sets where you maybe see

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somebody who's been hurt in a car accident
or in a bar fight.

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You may sometimes
see these medical simulations,

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as well where the NHS, emergency services,

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even the military, get trained
using these simulated scenarios.

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So they get to see the injuries before
they actually will see it for real life

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within their jobs.

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Other areas that are within this industry,
we have a digital side too,

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which is booming.

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So we have things like digital sculpting
we can use different equipment

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such as resin printers, 3D printers
and 3D scanners to go within our work.

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Nowadays, you'll probably see a lot of CGI
as well when you're watching film or TV,

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and special effects
works perfectly alongside CGI.

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Obviously, within makeup,
there are some limitations that we have.

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And then so it's great to be able to apply

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those character pieces for
then the CGI department to push them

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even further when we have limitations
with what we can do.

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So that's a little bit about the industry
in itself.

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Over this series of videos,
we're going to be showing you

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some different techniques
that are used within the industry as well,

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everything from sculpting prosthetics
to molding and applying, running them

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applying some special effects
and makeup techniques looks.

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We're also going to look at life casting
while we're going to life cast a hand,

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and then we're going to run that
to create a realistic hand

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and also
then create a creature hand as well.

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And even add some hair work in there
with some hair punching.