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Our
company, LIFEMAKER, has been doing special
make-up and effects for the entertainment industry at large, for the
last 18 years. Growing and gaining experience in diverse fields
along the way.
By looking at our résumé, you'll see that we worked as
much for big movie projects as for smaller independent ones; we did
as much U.S. tv series like Showtime's "The
Hunger" or Fox' "Big Wolf On
Campus" , as we did smaller regional stuff; we worked for
magicians, publicity companies, amusement parks, even a University,
designing and experimenting a method of 'skin surface measurements'
for their kinanthropology department!!
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Today,
we are a team of 5 regulars and 10 freelancer lab and set artists and
technicians, covering different fields of expertise, that guarantees clients,
the contracts will be brought on time and on budget, CREATIVELY.
The owner/ founder of the company is 41 year old Montrealer,
Erik Gosselin, who made a name for himself working with his twin brother,
Karl, as TWINS F/X for his first 10 professionnal years, before opening
LIFEMAKER..
ERIK GOSSELIN, who is as much the artistic
director than chief painter/ sculptor/ make-up artist is a Member of the
A.Q.T.I.S, Québec Cinéma and Vidéo Technicians Union
#MR-2324 ('chief effects make-up artist' and 'prosthetics technician')
and the IATSE Union.
The rest of the team is made up of professionnals that were trained and
are experienced in specialty fields like sculpting, painting and airbrushing,
set prosthetic make-up application and maintenance, designing/ fine arts,
hairdressing, moldmaking, mechanics and, even, welding and tattooing!
Just these last couple of years we have made static/ articulated fake
bodies, full head masks, radio-controlled robots of different sizes, prosthetic
agings/ fattenings/ monsters, lifesize Sumo asses, self-contained freak
fetuses, stop-motion-animation-articulated silicone puppets, breaking
apart zombie limbs and make-ups,…
Our South Shore facility is 6000sq.ft. and fully equipped with two-station
make-up room, molding room with shower, specially ventilated fiberglas
room, etc.; 15 minutes from downtown Montreal, we are located right besides
the Melrose Studios facilities, neighboring the St-Hubert airport. |
