Prosthetic makeup artist

Prosthetic makeup artists create special effects makeup using sculpted prosthetics to transform performers. The work involves sculpting, moulding, and casting prosthetic pieces, applying and blending them, painting and finishing, and creating dramatic transformations for film, TV, and theatre, combining sculpture, makeup, and effects.

They work in film, television, and theatre. The role suits highly skilled, artistic, technically expert people who can sculpt and create prosthetics, apply and blend them seamlessly, achieve dramatic transformations, work under production pressure, and combine fine sculptural and makeup artistry with the technical effects mastery that convincing prosthetic transformations require.