Rick Baker - Special F/X Make Up program from 1981

Rick Baker, Dick Smith, John Chambers, John Landis and David Naughton are featured in this TV news report on Special F/X make up from 1981.

[@georgemartin4354]

Guys like Stan Winston, Rick Baker and Rob Bottin brought this art form to a whole new level with their films. But its important to never forget, they stand on the shoulders of the giants that came before them. Its great to see those people getting the credit they deserve in this.

[@Valkonnen]

I saw an article on Rick Baker in 1981 and decided that I wanted to be a special effects makeup artist. I wrote a letter to Dick Smith and started sending him photos of my work. By 1985 I started working on little student films and it's been over 35 years and I'm still working. These guys in particular set and example of excellence and helped me and thousands of others. Dick is gone and Rick has retired, but there are new guys and guys like me who are still creating this stuff. It's never boring.

[@Pfias-CB.unvergessen]

Thanks for the Upload!

[@gatheringleaves]

I miss those old effects, you really don't get them anymore

[@dianasantiago5323]

You still do, special effects makeup is still an existing art, but it's more specialized.

[@elvismark6816]

hello Rick Baker my very first time I'm sitting here watching your work of art I remember this movie quite clearly as it seems like it was yesterday but to see artists doing their jobs and doing it well I rather learn from the best of the best Rick Baker I'm going to be watching a lot of your stuff Rick because this kind of stuff I'm interested in always have been always will be my dad got into movies as well but had no plasti senate or anything else what movies started me from the beginning I do like watching movies and I do like how they are done but also like to learn from the best as I said before I'm going to be watching a lot of you Rick Baker yours truly TCB third son of Elvis