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After working with Gale Anne Hurd on The Terminator and Aliens, Stan Winston Studio was the clear choice for alien designs in the 1988 film Alien Nation, directed by Graham Baker.
The film is set in 1991, a few years after an off-course alien spaceship has landed on Earth, depositing 300,000 bulbous-headed aliens, called ‘newcomers’, a specially-bred slave race that attempts to integrate into human society. More than a science fiction movie, the film was a metaphor for race relations and a plea for tolerance.
Due to the volume of prosthetic makeups (hundreds of makeup appliances!) that would have to be applied on the set, Stan Winston brought in Oscar-winning makeup artist Zoltan Elek to lead the daily application.
A scene in which alien newcomer William Harcourt (Terence Stamp) ingests a drug and transforms into an ‘uber-alien’ required SWS to create several stages of makeups.
This video shows behind-the-scenes snippets of Zoltan Elek adding the finishing touches to William Harcourt's prosthetic makeup, showcasing the final stage of the transformation.
Text excerpted from The Winston Effect: The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio by Jody Duncan
Music: A Darker Heart by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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After working with Gale Anne Hurd on The Terminator and Aliens, Stan Winston Studio was the clear choice for alien designs in the 1988 film Alien Nation, directed by Graham Baker.
The film is set in 1991, a few years after an off-course alien spaceship has landed on Earth, depositing 300,000 bulbous-headed aliens, called ‘newcomers’, a specially-bred slave race that attempts to integrate into human society. More than a science fiction movie, the film was a metaphor for race relations and a plea for tolerance.
Due to the volume of prosthetic makeups (hundreds of makeup appliances!) that would have to be applied on the set, Stan Winston brought in Oscar-winning makeup artist Zoltan Elek to lead the daily application.
A scene in which alien newcomer William Harcourt (Terence Stamp) ingests a drug and transforms into an ‘uber-alien’ required SWS to create several stages of makeups.
This video shows behind-the-scenes snippets of Zoltan Elek adding the finishing touches to William Harcourt's prosthetic makeup, showcasing the final stage of the transformation.
Text excerpted from The Winston Effect: The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio by Jody Duncan
Music: A Darker Heart by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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