The Marvel blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy used “well over 1,000 prosthetic makeup applications” and made more than “2,000 molds of yellow, blue and pink aliens” for the entire movie.
A large part of this intricate effort has to be credited to special effects makeup designer, David White.
He told Fast Company, “Looking at creatures in real life helps, but if you were to take some thoughts and ideas too literally it could look very silly.
White continued, “It’s about using key elements of things in the natural world, and putting one’s own twist on it.”
The whole work began months before filming started, where White used head and body casts of the actors and tested various materials to make the characters.
Nevertheless, Director James Gunn called the shots for the characters’ appearances.
White said, “James had very specific ideas and I would give an interpretation of what I thought would work. Ultimately, it’s down to what the director wants to see—he needs to go through that process of testing ideas to see how they read in the world he wants to create.”
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[via Fast Company]