Stan Winston School of Character Arts

The golden age of rubber monsters: director/monster maker John Carl Buechler and child actor Noah Hathaway posing with a friend during the production of fantasy film Troll (1986). @noahhathaway666 #johnbuechler #mmi #empirepictures #behindthescenes https://instagr.am/p/CLIgv0kpgMr/

Kangaroo Men from Tank Girl on display at the conference room of Stan Winston Studio. The studio designed and created the makeup and animatronic effects for the ripper characters in the 1995 film, directed by Rachel Talalay (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare). #tankgirl #props #makeupfx #stanwinstonstudio https://instagr.am/p/CLHnVCPpAMc/

The knitted evil. The Exorcist knitted version by @croshameofficial. @thereallindablair #knitting #knitted #theexorcist #evil https://instagr.am/p/CLF7BvZptdj/

An unused Tooth Fairy design that one of our teachers, @stevewangcreaturecreator (@theonyxforgeofficial) designed and created back in 2001 for Darkness Falls. Animatronics by Russ Shinkle. #toothfairy #animatronic #darknesfalls #conceptart https://instagr.am/p/CLE7X04JtXJ/

Barney Burman has a birthday today! Happy Birthday, Barney! Thank you for sharing your professional makeup techniques for aging and teaching the next generations to your makeup magic! Your Stan Winston School Family - @barneyburman is a third-generation makeup artist and one of the teachers at the Stan Winston School. His grandfather, Ellis Burman, Sr. was a true makeup pioneer, and his father is Thomas R. Burman, another industry legend. Starting work in 1984, the list of his film credits is massive: Star Trek III The Search for Spock, House, Fright Night Part 2, Brain Dead, Class of 1999, Body Snatchers, Star Kid, Galaxy Quest, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes, The Ring, Big Fish, Dawn of the Dead, Constantine, Zombieland, Star Trek Into Darkness, and many more. #happybirthday #makeupartist #training #artschool https://instagr.am/p/CLDZWQIJJur/

Today is the 16th anniversary of Francis Lawrence's Constantine. Creating Demons (and Angels) with puppetry and practical fx at Stan Winston Studio for Constantine. Go behind the scenes with the creature crew: LINK IN OUR INSTAGRAM STORY! Stan Winston Studio created a variety of demonic (and heavenly) characters for CONSTANTINE (2005), directed by Francis Lawrence and adapted from the 1985 DC and Vertigo horror comic, HELLBLAZER, including demons, victims possessed by demons, and a winged angel. #constantine #angels #demons #stanwinstonstudio #keanureeves https://instagr.am/p/CK_slvTJO3H/

Baby Stego! ♥ #Repost from @davidgrasso66. Baby Steg from JP2 at Stan Winston Studios. Several others worked on this with me. Wish I could remember who. #jurrasicpark #dinosaur #stegosaurus #stanwinstonstudio https://instagr.am/p/CK-SwvKpash/

Creature Making Contest - Enter for your chance to WIN the 1st Place and the Grand Prize Pack (worth over $1,400), sponsored by our friends at @fourthsealstudios. How to Enter the Contest - use the LINK in Bio! Ends: March 8th, 2021 Image: one of the entries - Dormin the Dream Giver by Predatorattila #creature #creaturemaking #stanwinstonschool #artschool https://instagr.am/p/CK9Q5LcJlbK/

Check out our latest behind the scenes blog: LINK IN OUR INSTAGRAM STORY! Behind The Scenes Of Gargoyles (1972). How Del Armstrong, Ellis "Sonny" Burman Jr., and Stan Winston created gargoyles, got credit for it, and shared an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in makeup. A CAREER-LAUNCHING TV MOVIE Stan Winston emerged from the three-year long Walt Disney Studios makeup apprenticeship program in February 1972 trained and possessing a marketable skill, but only marginally better off than when he’d first arrived in Hollywood to ‘make it’ as an actor. Joining the ranks of makeup artists working in the entertainment industry was somewhat less competitive a feat than establishing an acting career, but, even so, as a novice, Winston did not have the experience, the contacts, or the résumé to attract jobs. Finding work would require guts and chutzpah - and he had limitless supplies of both. Even before completing his apprenticeship, he had made the rounds of the three major television networks, introducing himself to the heads of the makeup departments there and picking up whatever small makeup assignments he could to supplement the money he made working in the mailroom at Disney. “I did beauty makeups for game shows, variety shows, and things like that,” Winston said. “All of this was just freelancing, but, through that freelance work, I got to know a lot of the makeup artists in television, which helped me get work once I had finished my apprenticeship. I never sat around and waited for work to come to me. I was always proactive about things.” Read the full story - LINK IN OUR INSTAGRAM STORY! #gargoyles #stanwinston #behindthescenes #70smovies https://instagr.am/p/CK7iXGCJQiv/

Did you know? Before @toolmusic, @adamjones_tv was a sculptor and special effects designer. He learned the stop motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool's music videos, such as "Sober", "Prison Sex", "Stinkfist", "Ænema", "Schism", "Parabola", and "Vicarious". He started to work at @ricklazzarini's @thecharactershop. During the next couple of years, he worked on the Monsters TV show. He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a zombie head on a spike (later used in Ghostbusters II) among others. After that, he went to Stan Winston Studio, where he worked on Predator 2, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. #adamjones #artist #specialeffets #terminator2 #predator2 https://instagr.am/p/CK6qM2cJMFa/

Makeup Magic! Doug Jones as Billy Butcherson between the takes of Hocus Pocus (1993), makeup artist Margaret Prentice adds details to the prosthetics, created by Tony Gardner's makeup effects studio Alterian, Inc. @actordougjones @alterianinc @tonygardner @prenticemargaret #alterian #makeupeffects #dougjones #behindthescenes https://instagr.am/p/CK5XvIsJrGJ/

Student Work - The Moreau Makeup Challenge: Creating the Beast-People at the University of Bolton Check out our blog to see how young artists work together to build the beast-people with the input of industry professionals and SWSCA co-founder Matt Winston - LINK in our Insta Story! Photo: Aby Oldfield and Maisie Twigger applying the Pangolin creature's makeup @boltonuni @makeup_fx_bolton_university @_mattwinston_ #monstermaking #makeupeffects #studentwork #artschool https://instagr.am/p/CK4CffjpkXr/

Happy Birthday to the super-talented Joel Harlow - @chickenfist, SWSCA instructor, and award-winning makeup effects artist! We're all blessed to have a teacher like you, cheers! Your Stan Winston School Family - Harlow is one of the most innovative special effects makeup artists in Hollywood, the founder of Joel Harlow Designs, and an industry veteran. You can see his brilliant work in numerous film productions, including Suburban Commando, Pet Sematary II, Leprechaun, Freaked, Brainscan, Species, Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions, Phantoms, Bicentennial Man, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Planet of the Apes, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Constantine, Star Trek, The Lone Ranger, Star Trek Beyond, Hellboy, and more. #happybirthday #joelharlow #makeupartist #artschool https://instagr.am/p/CKz6uIGJJwT/

Anytime - Kevin Peter Hall as the iconic jungle hunter between the scenes of Predator (1987), directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) Creature Effects Unit: Shannon Shea, Steve Wang, Matt Rose (Stan Winston Studio: art department coordinators) #predator #kevinpeterhall #stanwinston #specialeffects #monstermaking #filmmaking #behindthescenes https://instagr.am/p/CKy7mDVJ6mV/

ENTER OUR Creature Making CONTEST: LINK IN BIO! Image: Fawkes the Phoenix by Miriam Brandt Selfors. How to Enter the Contest: To enter this contest simply post a new discussion in the Creature Making Contest category. Please include a description and high rez pictures of your creature creation. Video submissions are cool, too! Just upload your video(s) to YouTube and share the link in your post. We'll consider creatures of all shapes and sizes: Sculptures, Puppets, Makeups, etc. The only requirements are that the submission is a physical creature and primarily the work of your own hands. Big thanks to our friends over at @fourthsealstudios who have generously sponsored this contest with some of their amazing products! Deadline: March 8th, 2021. #Phoenix #Creatures #CreatureMaking #StanWinstonSchool https://instagr.am/p/CKxY8JmJIwx/

"Ellie, this one was always my favorite when I was a kid. And now I've seen one, its the most beautiful thing I ever saw." From a scale model to a full-size sculpture. @symbolicartsfx's Joey Orosco sculpted both of them for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park at Stan Winston Studio. @amblin #stanwinstonstudio #jurassicpark #triceratops #claysculpture https://instagr.am/p/CKwZbjQJU_5/

Zombie rod puppet. #Repost from FX veteran @jeff_himmel - Santa Clarita Studios. A little throwback to 1992. Gettin’ silly on “Return Of The Living Dead 3”! (Pictured Left to Right) Matt Croteau, Mike Jolly and yours truly. “Barrel Zombie” puppet by Wayne Toth - @wayne_toth_fx. 🧟‍♂️ #zombies #puppets #behindthescenes #moviemagic https://instagr.am/p/CKu80IdpJ8y/