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What kind of makeup courses does Dick Smith offer?

We offer both Basic and Advanced Courses in State-of-the-Art FX Makeup. With Dick Smith’s Basic 3-D Makeup Course, you’ll learn core skills without going to a special effects makeup school! Create a complete prosthetic makeup with the help of easy step-by-step instructions and video originally created by Dick Smith himself. More Info…

Did Dick’s Academy Award winning makeup course just have another nominee?

We just had another Academy Award nominee in 2016, Love Larson. READ MORE BASIC & ADVANCED COURSES Dick’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course has more Academy Award winning and nominated graduates than all of America’s makeup schools combined.

How much does it cost to get a makeup diploma?

Affordable tuition: only $1,995 for the entire course or you can purchase it in thirds for only $665 per section (plus shipping). If you’re going to include a diploma in your portfolio, make sure it’s the one that counts. The only one that counts in my book is the one that comes from Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course.

What is a Dick Smith certificate?

The Dick Smith Certificate opens career doors. Dick’s certificate is the most respected in the makeup profession because it is given for the quality of your work, unlike certificates of makeup schools which are given merely for completing their program.

Program Description (s)

The Basic Course covers the 5 basic technical and artistic stages in the creation of such a makeup including making a life mask, sculpting the appliances, making molds, and gluing appliances and applying makeup to them.

Instructors

Dick Smith (Exorcist, The Godfather, Death Becomes Her) – View Dick Smith’s IMDB.

Special Notes

Mr. Smith has a pre-arranged deal with a top supplier to give his students a %20 discount on materials.

Kevin Haney

Makeup master Kevin Haney began his career as a lab assistant for Dick Smith on the film Altered States and is a graduate of Dick’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course. Haney won an Academy Award for his aging makeup on Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy.

Steve LaPorte

Steve LaPorte is a master of all the classic makeup techniques, thanks to mentorship by Dick Smith, Rick Baker, John Chambers, Ken Chase and Tom Burman. He won the Academy Award for his outrageous creations for Beetlejuice with renowned artist Ve Neill.

Alec Gillis

By age 13 Alec Gillis had decided to pursue a career in creature effects, setting up his own makeup lab in his mother’s garage. He teemed up with a young James Cameron, building a stop-motion puppet in Cameron’s kitchen.

Tom Woodruff, Jr

Tom worked with a number of small effects companies in L.A. in the early 1980s and then joined Stan Winston’s team on The Terminator. That was the beginning of a five-year period that saw Tom become a key coordinator under Winston, with the opportunity to work on such features as Aliens and Predator as well as TV shows such as Amazing Stories.

John Caglione Jr

John Caglione Jr. is a virtuoso of character, beauty and prosthetic makeup. A graduate of Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course, Caglione’s career began when Dick got him a job as a staff makeup artist at NBC, working on all of the network’s shows and with the ground-breaking original cast of Saturday Night Live.

Mike Marino

One of the most successful makeup artists on the East Coast, Mike Marino is sought after by top directors such as Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Charlie Kaufman, Francis Lawrence and Kevin Smith. A graduate of Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course, Marino founded his makeup lab Prosthetic Renaissance in 1999.

Love Larson

Love Larson is a character and prosthetic makeup artist from Sweden and a graduate of Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course.Obsessed with makeup and monsters from an early age, he spent most of his years growing up making masks and prosthetics, practicing on friends and himself.

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Where did Smith make his makeup?

Smith pioneered the development of prosthetic makeup, now better known as special make-up effects, from the basement of his home in Larchmont, New York , a district in which he mostly lived through his life. His colleagues though, he commented in a 2008 interview, "tended to be secretive.

What type of masks did Smith make?

Prosthetic face masks were then normally made in one piece, but Smith made them in three foam latex pieces. Smith's technique allowed the actor to use their full range of facial expressions. Despite initial criticism from many professional make-up artists at the time, Smith's make-up techniques proved to be superior.

Why did Smith use stipple effects in The Godfather?

Instead, Smith used stipple effects moving across the face from the actor's eyes.

What was the name of the show that Smith was on in 1961?

I've never forgotten his words.". Other early work by Smith was seen on Way Out (1961), a short-lived supernatural syndicated clone of Twilight Zone, produced by Susskind in New York City, and hosted by Roald Dahl.

What was Dick Smith's book called?

In 1965, Smith published an instructional book, titled Dick Smith's Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-up Handbook , a special edition of Forrest J Ackerman 's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine series.

What did Smith create for the vomit scenes?

For the head spinning effect, Smith created a mechanical dummy.

Who was the makeup artist for the Man Who Could Cheat Death?

Smith also consulted Australian make-up artist Roy Ashton, having seen his work on the British horror film The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), in which Anton Diffring was made to appear of extreme old age.