Rick Baker
Rick Baker
Richard A. "Rick" Baker is an American special make-up effects creator known for his creature effects. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMakeup Artist
Date of Birth8 December 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.
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It's always kind of a shock the first time you see a movie that you worked on to see what's really inside the edit. And how much of it, you know?
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It happened so fast, and in the dark, that nobody knows what happened.
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When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.
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Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. There's only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. You're also limited by the face that you're working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.