Gino Acevedo Braves Goremaster's Lair: The Weta Workshop will Never be the Same
By J.M.Jeffrey
August 2007
Goremaster.com
GoreMaster talks with Gino Acevedo, award winning Senior Visual Effects Prosthetics Supervisor for WETA Workshop. |
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GM: What current projects are you working on or excited about?
After Kong we got started on a few other films. There’s a couple coming out this year actually that it would be good to keep an eye out for, one’s called 30 Days of Night (2007) that’s based on a graphic novel about vampires in Alaska which is really cool. Another one called the Water Horse (2007) which is more of a family film that will come out around Christmas time. It’s really cute, it’s almost like Free Willy (1993) meets E.T. (1981) in a way. Now we’re all working on James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) for the next year and a half or so.
GM: What was your toughest job?
Hmmm…toughest job…that would probably have to be Rings makeup wise. It was fantastic I mean it was a dream come true but really, really hard work. [It was] very straining as far as trying to come up with new materials to use for some of the prosthetics. Again we used silicone for “Gimli’s” face and that was a tough one trying to figure out what sort of different materials to use with the silicone in order to get it to really stick to the skin. Because that’s a problem with silicone it’s made to resist any sort of adhesion at all so we had to come up with some different techniques to put some sort of a backing on the back of the appliance so it would stick to the skin.
Actor John Rhys-Davies as Gimli in Lord of the Rings.
I’d say probably just Lord of Rings [trilogy] is probably one of the hardest films that I’ve done. They [the films] were all back to back and there were so many different makeups that we had to do. I mean we’d end up starting at 2 o’clock in the morning and be on set by 8am. By the time we’d finished wrapping everybody and cleaning off the makeups it was 10 o’clock at night. Then go to sleep for a few hours and back up at 2am. Total filming time, I think, we filmed for about 3 years.
Gino Acevedo and Lutz from Lord of Rings.
GM: What was your favorite job?
Umm…that [Lord of the Rings trilogy] was probably a favorite as well…it was probably a little bit of both! (laughing). Well, it’s hard to say because I’ve really enjoyed each project that I’ve been involved with. You know? Each project has a little bit something different that you always tend to learn something new whether it’s a technique, or just from a design faze or anything so it’s really hard to pinpoint just one project really.
Actor Ian Holm as Bilbo in Old Age Makeup.
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