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Warning: contains spoilers for The Walking Dead seasons 1-6.And gory images.
Hairdressers exist after the undead apocalypse.
Carol has a pixie crop.
One character though, has thus far defied the scissors: Carl Grimes.
And now, after the events of season 6B, we know why.
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There you have it.
We did a one-piece foam latex face and neck, two more for chest and back.
Her makeup utility took a little over three hours.
We ended up putting her in blue leggings so that visual effects guys could remove the bottom half.
So the top was all prosthetics.
People could not figure out how we did it.
There was a big Internet debate and some fans said it was a puppet.
Others insisted that she was full CGI.
The trick to it, he confided inThe Frameis using powdered food colouring, not liquid food colouring.
you might go to the supermarket, and you might buy red liquid food colouring.
But as soon as you do that, that blood stains your hands.
So then you have a red stained bloody hand for two days.
We add the innards and make the body slide and add pieces as it falls off the frame.
So, when youre looking at them, youre not seeing the actors eyes.
Youre seeing fake eyes because we were able to simulate the missing jaw and the pulled-out teeth.
Everything on their bodies is all practical, aside from the missing arms, which we painted blue.
One of the things that I strive for, as a make-up effects artist, is to mix mediums.
I always feel that you keep the audience guessing by throwing tricks at them, every so often.
So, youll see a practical zombie face with no arms.
We created a cast of Scott Wilsons head and created an animatronic that had jaw movements.
One little augmentation I wanted to do was digital eyes.
The fact that we had a couple of real flies flying around the head was a complete bonus.
I didnt give him the chopped up gory version.
Theyll never let you do it.
The spurting blood came as much of a surprise to the actors as the viewer, he continues.
It was really powerful and they started moving a little faster.
All of a sudden their hearts were pounding.
And that was my intent.
I wanted those emotions to be real.
We had six cameras on the explosion, Nicotero toldEntertainment Weekly.
We had all the body parts on fire around where the explosion was.
And then, of course, the actual walkers themselves.
We had stunt performers with flames on them.
And it was an actual puppet head on fire biting a stunt person protected by the mask.
Robert Kirkman wrote that episode and we kept referencing the originalRoboCop, Nicotero toldMTV.
It was something that was very important to us.
The black-and-white fit perfectly with our storytelling.
But he said Dude that was fucking scary!
Theres a lot of practical effects in this episode, because we really wanted everything to feel authentic.
I didnt want to go with a lot of fireballs and visual effects stuff.
I wanted everything to feel real.
We probably detonated the explosion in the lake about seven or eight times.
I just said, How many times can we do this?
It wasnt a CGI wound; it was an actual wound that we put onto Carls face.
Then when Ricks running through the streets carrying Carl, that was a dummy the entire time.