#steve johnson

[lookcaitlin]

[theknucklehead]

I love that for one of their Treehouse of Horrors, the Simpsons actually reached out to a studio in Japan to animate their Death Note parody.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dead Heat (1988)

[makeupeffectsarchive-old]

Behind the scenes images of Stephen Geoffreys having prosthetics applied to him as his turn as the unlucky Evil Ed in Fright Night (1985)

Steve Johnson wished Evil Ed's transformation to be lumpy and 'asymmetrical' in contrast to the transformations in American Werewolf in London and The Howling. Geoffreys would spend 18 hours in the makeup chair as prosthetics were applied to his whole body. He had to take sleeping pills to pass out the time away!

For filming the transformation, Geoffreys would have to sit with his back against the set wall, which had a hole for a puppeteer to operate the rod-puppet wolf arm, as well as holes in the set's floor for another puppeteer to operate the rod-puppet wolf legs. Geoffreys would wear a neck appliance with the wolf head as a 'hat'; he could see out from holes in the neck, and the head was fitted with cable-operated animatronics allowing it to blink and grimace.

[steve-johnson]

Terrible creature Spotted. Exterminate At anycost . Horrible. Fat and Terrible.

[makeupeffectsarchive]

Steve Johnson's XFX made a set of full-body puppets to realize the alien Sil in Species (1995). The puppt's limbs and body parts could come apart to be reassembled, and its movements were controlled via rod puppeteering and marionette puppeteering. The animatronic head was cable-controlled for its facial movements.

The puppet's parts were translucent, as per HR Giger's wishes - it helped that Johnson had realized similarly translucent aliens for James Cameron's The Abyss.

The Sil puppets limbs were made out of clear plastic, and foam rubber for the joints. However, its translucent 'organic' regions were made out of nylon hose!

[dadsinsuits]

Steve Johnson

[2001hz]

Mindy Clarke as Julie in Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993) Costume & Make-up By: Steve Johnson’s XFX