I am really into special effects makeup, although I've only had a few times at doing it myself, I spend a lot of time watching videos of amazing makeup artists creating some insane looks. I am hoping to go to a special effects makeup school for some courses in the future, as I'd really love to do something with it. I have created some costume makeup looks on myself for Halloween parties and also for Comic Con where I cosplayed as some anime characters.
The other day, I was watching my favourite YouTube special effects makeup artists ElliMacs. I came across a video for creating a "killer snail" look, which I'd really love to try out myself as it just looks so creepy:
The other day, I was watching my favourite YouTube special effects makeup artists ElliMacs. I came across a video for creating a "killer snail" look, which I'd really love to try out myself as it just looks so creepy:
I am hoping that sometime I will be able to get round to recreating this look. I thought up a little idea for a short film based on this makeup look.
A girl sees slugs ruining her plants, so she puts down some slug pellets to try and kill them. The following morning, she goes outside to collect her post wearing only socks on her feet. To her disgust, she steps on a giant slug and it goes allover her foot. She cries out in disgust and hops back inside to clean her sock. The next day she goes out again to collect her post wearing her slippers, however this time there are seven snails on her path and she steps on all of them. She shouts out angrily and goes inside to get some slug repellent. She returns and shakes it allover the slugs and kills them all. Pleased with herself, she takes her mail and goes inside to open it. That evening while she is watching television, there is a knock at her door. Confused as to who would be calling so late, she goes to answer the door. She peers around the door cautiously into the darkness. She thinks no one is there so she opens the door fully, only to be met with a horrible slimey killer snail lady. She screams as the snail begins to cover her in silme.
While this is just a very brief idea that I came up with in a few minutes, I think I could pull it off, however I'd have to have a few practices at perfecting the makeup. Once I finally get round to ordering some of the stuff, I'll try it out and post some pictures of it on this post. Who knows, maybe in a few months time, I could have created a short horror film about snails and slugs.
A girl sees slugs ruining her plants, so she puts down some slug pellets to try and kill them. The following morning, she goes outside to collect her post wearing only socks on her feet. To her disgust, she steps on a giant slug and it goes allover her foot. She cries out in disgust and hops back inside to clean her sock. The next day she goes out again to collect her post wearing her slippers, however this time there are seven snails on her path and she steps on all of them. She shouts out angrily and goes inside to get some slug repellent. She returns and shakes it allover the slugs and kills them all. Pleased with herself, she takes her mail and goes inside to open it. That evening while she is watching television, there is a knock at her door. Confused as to who would be calling so late, she goes to answer the door. She peers around the door cautiously into the darkness. She thinks no one is there so she opens the door fully, only to be met with a horrible slimey killer snail lady. She screams as the snail begins to cover her in silme.
While this is just a very brief idea that I came up with in a few minutes, I think I could pull it off, however I'd have to have a few practices at perfecting the makeup. Once I finally get round to ordering some of the stuff, I'll try it out and post some pictures of it on this post. Who knows, maybe in a few months time, I could have created a short horror film about snails and slugs.
I'd also say that what inspired this idea was reading a manga titled "Uzumaki" by Junji Ito. It was probably the weirdest manga I have ever read. Some of the panels in it were downright scary. Including the ones above where people began getting extremely slow and lazy and then eventually turned into snail people.