The Walking Dead is a television series by AMC that aired on Halloween in 2010. Since it's inception, the series has been received by critics with tumultuous applause for it's special effects and make up artistry. The lead make up artist is Gregory Nicotero, who is also the co-executive producer and director on The Walking Dead. He has won a whole bunch of awards for his work on The Walking Dead alone, and co-wrote and directed the web series Torn Apart based on The Walking Dead franchise, which he also won awards for. What have you done?
Based on the comics of the same name, The Walking Dead revolves around Rick Grimes, a man who wakes up from a coma to discover that civilisation has fallen and that a plague of sorts has caused most of the world to turn into zombies. Neat. As Rick travels through cities looking for his family and trying to survive, he, alongside others he meets, has some close encounters with the undead and goes on to bash their brains out with whatever weapon he has at his disposal.
To create realistic zombies, the creators brought on Gregory to do the make up. Here are some photos' of his work:
Jaw dropping stuff
Before and after of the zombie girl from the pilot episode (fun fact: they call the first episode a pilot because that will determine whether the show 'takes off')
Gregory commanding his army of zombies, as you do.
A current picture of my ex-girlfriend.
In an interview with Gregory Nicotero, he answered some questions regarding some of the details with the zombie make up. The process of 'zombifying' a person usually takes about an hour and requires gallons of fake blood, contact lenses, fake leathery skin and much to my surprise, VO5 conditioner.
But the makeup is only one half of The Walking Dead experience. Seeing these zombies is one thing, but killing them is another. While I'm sure they had a lot of extras dying to be on the show (hehe), it's still apparently considered 'not cool' to kill people on set, zombie or otherwise. This is where Stargate Studios was hired and they took care of all the special effects for the show (there's a lot of them).
From this
To this. Nice.
By combining the masterful work of Gregory Nicotero and the equally crafty computer generated special effects from Stargate Studios, The Walking Dead was brought brilliantly to the small screen and continues to immerse viewers through not only its visuals but its great storyline too (they're not paying me I swear).
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