Battles With Bits of Rubber
Stuart Bray and Todd Debreceni talk makeup effects and prosthetics.
If you like rubber monsters, prosthetics and gore then you can listen, learn and suggest new episode subjects.
Todd is author of 'Special Makeup Effects For Stage And Screen', what many consider to be the modern makeup FX bible.
Stuart Bray is a working makeup FX artist with many years experienc. Credits include 'Saving Private Ryan', 'Shaun of the Dead', 'Dr Who' and more recently 'Game of Thrones' and 'Dr Strange'.
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- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 78 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
#76 - 1.9 Million Sq. Ft Needed
This episode is in two parts. The first part is the generally good news of the increase in film industry activity which sees many people run off their feet with work. After a year of lockdowns and c…
#75 - Cutting Edges & Flat Moulds
We covered cutting edges in episode #61 but this one is specifically about cutting edges on flat moulds.
Cutting edges on appliance moulds do the work of separating the fine appliance edge from the f…
#74 - Foam & Filament
In episode #74 we talk about running lots of foam latex and overcoming the things that can go wrong with foam latex. Despite silicone being the material most go to first, it is a very real material …
~73 - Rod Maxwell
Rod Maxwell is a bit of a Renaissance man, and the more we talked the more you can see how wearing many hats has informed his approach. Of late, Rod has become known for his fusion of digital techniq…
#72 - Adam Beane
#71 - Daniel Parker
That was back in 1994, and there was still a lot of Frankenstein stuff kicking about in…
#70 - Dominic Hailstone Part 2
In this second and final part of the chat with Dominic, we look at his art and discuss the drawing and sculptures.
As usual, this podcast episode is a tale of two stories. Todd and I talk about the d…
#69 - Dominic Hailstone Part 1
In this episode (and the next), we have a chat with artist Dominic Hailstone. He works extensively with visual effects and has a background in makeup effects and practical effects which inform his …
#68 - Q&A
This episode is a catch up on some emails and questions we had over the last couple of weeks. We have some great questions this time around, so many thanks for getting in touch!
We talk about epoxy …
#67 - Brian Kinney
#66 - Lars Carlsson
We wanted to chat theatre st…
#65 - Ghosts, Goblins & Cutting Edges
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It’s Halloween. A Saturday! A full moon! Also not happening because of Covid. Boo.
It’s a damn shame, but I imagine around the world, a lot more horror movies wi…
#64 - Danny Marie Elias
Most demonstrations at trade shows involving applianc…
#63 - Things That Go Wrong
We have all spotted things in shows which were never meant to be there. Scars swapping sides, hair up one minute and then down the next, blood which moves shot to shot or an errant edge which can't …
#62 - Mould Closure
Closing moulds correctly is vital to get good casts out of them. There seems little point in making a good mould and then getting bad casts out of it.
In this episode we chat about things to conside…
#61 - Cutting Edges
In flat moulds, there can be something similar even though a core isn’t inv…
#60 - Tim Baggaley
Blog Post for this episode here.
Tim Baggaley played the one-armed zombie in Shaun of the Dead. He's a damn nice fella, an actor, talented graphic designer and a fabulous dancer.
In this episode, …
#59 - Mark Donovan
We talked through the difficulties involved in getting r…
#57 - 'Little John' Cormican
It was a great pleasure to chat with John face to face (before lockdown, I hasten to add) back in December of 2019.
John is a well known FX artist who has since gone on to work at Tussauds and i…
#58 - Air Bubbles
Air bubbles of one kind or another are inevitable if you deal with materials which start out life as a liquid and then later solidify such as plaster, latex, silicone and resin. Let’s take a look at …