The five other links I have chosen to use are related to other ways you can go about training yourself to start in the FX world. One of these links will take you to another school located in the Vaughan area, but is not really in the same ball park as the five posted before this. Keep in mind with the other four links that they are really more for showing you about the world of FX makeup and not for actually training.
This is a link for the book store Chapters, where you can look up and purchase books on FX makeup. These books can show you how to create simple FX makeup looks. It might be good to do some home based research before starting a down the path through formal education. By using books purchased from a store like Chapters you can see if you have the talent, passion and dedication to go through with the next step.
This link will take you to a biography on Ve Neill, who is the reason I know anything about FX makeup and my idol (along with countless others). There a lots of famous artists out there, and she is right up at the top of them. Ve Neill has done work on Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice and a wide variety of other feature films. I would suggest taking a look at what she along with other FX makeup artists went through to get their names out there, just to see what you might need to do.
Youtube is a huge site for looking up how to do just about anything. If you have no education, along with books, youtube can be a great source for looking up FX techniques. I was asked a while ago to do makeup for the Barrie zombie walk, and this is one of the places I looked at for techniques. The processes they tend to use, will not give you an advanced look, but it will help you get on your way. It helped me.
The Bulsh! School of Cosmetics, is kind of an underdog when it comes to FX schools that people strive to attend. Their school is not very big, and they cost less but that does not mean your level of education will be poor. When I checked them out they seem to be very passionate about helping students achieve their full potential in makeup, and insist on training from the very basic level upward. This school would be a great start to training in the FX world, but I don’t know if you will get the same networking as you would with a school like Complections.
This year a new reality series hit the television world, a show called Face Off. This show follows selected contestants, through different challenges in FX makeup. I found this show to be an amazing eye opener for people who I had explained my career choice to but did not really grasp the nature of it. It shows people competing each week in areas like movie killers, and aliens, with each artists work being judged and of course somebody being eliminated. The other great thing about this show were the judges, with Ve Neill being one of them. I would suggest anyone interested in this field to watch this show, as it will show you the challenges you will be faced with in the industry.
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