"The Mask" (Jim Carrey) prosthetic makeup

Hello everyone. It has been a very long time since I posted something on here.
Lot of things has changed, including the fact that I decided to leave my job to spend all my time in sculpting and Fx makeups.
So, this is the result of a commission by a guy who wanted to be Jim Carrey from "The Mask".
I worked with monsterclay for the sculpture, ultracal 30 for the molds and foam latex for the final pieces.
it was the first time for me working with foam latex... I'm overall satisfied with the results.


First, I took the face lifecast of my customer in prosthetic grade Alginate (I worked with a slow time alginate from Formx, really love the setting time of it, about 7 minutes, so I have plenty of time to check that all my areas are thicken enough) backed up with plaster bandages




Then I started working on my face piece - I decided to go with only two pieces, I later discovered that perhaps a separate chin piece would have been a little more easier when applying the makeup.
These are the blocked volumes



then I started adding some texture in it - Looking at the images of the original makeup, I found out that a general pore texture is what he seems to have in pretty much any area. Anyway, I decided to adding pores without stamps, by hand, to have a slightly more realistic look.




At this point, I was ready to cast it in Ultracal. I added flashing to my sculpture - I forgot to take photos of this passage - and then released the positive.



The lighter clay is the clay I used for my flashing. You can see that I left some contact area on the neck and on the lateral edges. You can also see my eye-keys.

Then, i began sculpting my cowl piece. Same process, except that I used a general size mannequin head.
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This time I needed to creat a two-part head mold. Again, I currently have no photos of the process (I begin working faster due to my deadline)
It has been made in Ultracal, too.


I will be posting updates soon - I have still plenty of progess to show you. Hope you enjoy for now!

So, after molding the two pieces of my makeup, I started experimenting with foam latex. I started from the face piece, the easier one. First pull was way too dense, the foam did not reached a decent volume. Plus, my edges were way too thick. I am sorry to not being able to post some photos of this stage, I was really in a rush due to my deadline.
Anyway, my second attempt went just fine. Good edges, great softness.

Then, I tried the injection method with my cowl piece. Differently from the face piece in which foam that was only poured in the open mold, this one had to be injected in the mold already closed. I drilled the injection hole on the top of the fiberglass head (the core of the mold), then injected my foam latex in it.

I found out that baking foam latex at lowest temperature (80° celsius/170° fahrenheit), for a longer time (4 to 6 hours) will prevent to over-cure the foam and will create a softer appliance.

Here is a photo of the cowl, unseamed and unpainted.




At this point, the big part of the work was done. I decided to sculpt and mold a fast denture for the makeup. I think that teeth were too significant for the makeup to ignore them.
I sculpted them on my client dental casts, molded them in silicone and casted them with dental acrylic. (for the gums I used the flexacryl, which is softer and more comfortable for the person that will wear the denture)



I decided to not doing them as big as they were on the movie to ensure that my client was able to talk pretty well. That worked.


Now I can post some photo of the makeup process.
I will not explain the steps, but I will be glad to answer your questions, if you have any.






Hope you enjoy it

Wow, this turned out fantastic

Great job
Congrats

Absolutely fantastic work!....You my friend have a serious talent....

you did an amazing job!! incredible

That looks wonderful!

I am in love with this! The teeth really make it!

Somebody stop him! Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun. I really like how this turned out. The teeth look amazing!

perfection!!!!36

The whole thing looks awesome!

Awesome! I loved this movie as a kid!