'Born of Hope' and 'The Hunt for Gollum'

Charlie had mentioned the two Youtube hits that had already received a large number of views and, in some cases, awards. I decided to take a look at the films in parts and the type of make-up that had been applied for the Orc characters in each of them.

Although Charlie had said that the make-up in these films was a little unimpressive and he hoped to be able to achieve better, I personally thought that the make-up on 'Born of Hope' was very impressive. For somebody working on an independent film budget, and potentially not with much industry experience, I thought that the prosthetics were very convincing. This did make the prospect of creating Orcs for Charlie's film a little bit more intimidating as I wasn't certain that Paige and I would be able to create anything better than this.

The makeup for 'The Hunt for Gollum' however was not nearly as impressive and had clearly not been made to fit the actors faces as it hung strangely in places. It was also most likely made of a cheaper material like latex or foam as it did not have nearly as a good a surface texture as the make-up in 'Born of Hope'. I felt confident that as a team we could create a higher quality make-up than this, however, this film did have the upside of having a very large number of Orc characters in make-up which would be much harder for us to achieve.