Last year I worked on a movie called “…And Out Comes the Wolf” by Big Newport Studios. We had a big crew of bg and featured background actors and on this day our locations manager was stepping in to be the “grandma”. In the movie our “our grandma” gets sick and so we needed to age her and make her look more sickly.
I rarely get the chance to do fx makeup like this. It was layers of alcohol paint and dehydrating her skin to make her wrinkles look more pronounced. We bounced around adding latex but were short on time so it was all about shading and layering and sallowing and adding the red, browns in copious amounts and hoping it would read right with the lighting.
Overall, I am really pleased with the effect and how it looked in the film. It is fun for me to try new things and actually succeed the first time!
A photo of our actress before her aging makeup.
A photo of her after we added layers of paint to age her.
