Prosthetics
Prosthesis (definition): the replacing of missing parts of the body with artificial substitutes.
In the world of video and movie production the term ‘prosthetics’ is used to mean the application of body make-up to resemble wounds, growths, scar tissue, surgical operations and so on. It has become a specialist subject and its practitioners are artists in their own right.
Generally this work is the province of the make-up experts, but occasionally special effects and make-up need to co-operate.
Body attachments
Science fiction and horror movies often demand that human beings are shown with body deformations and unnatural additions. Characters with two heads, knotted fingers or eyes in the middle of their foreheads are almost commonplace. ...
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