Makeup for Blue Mutant

In addition to the incredible power, the appearance of the mutants in X-Men saga is also quite unique. The three characters that result looks could amaze the audience is Mystique, Beast, and Nightcrawler. With blue leather plus a few additional elements, the three mutants is noticeably different with other mutant characters are generally tangible human beings. To create the look of it, it takes hard work, time is not small, and the high level of patience, both from the crew who worked on the makeup and the characters.

It took a long time to do the whole makeover Rebecca Romijn (Mystique). At first, prosthetic material attached to some parts of the body Romijn and body parts that are not plastered with prosthetic material is covered with blue airbrush. For the final touch, add details such as scales. Mystique figure changes in the film itself will be assisted by digital effects.

Romijn himself admits that the whole work is quite tiring for him to sit calmly, while her 'faces made'. Not only that, the yellow contact lenses to create the effect on the eye Mystique at all uncomfortable to use. Fortunately, the sequel film, X2: X-MEN UNITED, he does not need to use longer lenses such as eye contact Mystique this time added digitally.

In contrast with the workmanship Romijn her makeup effects involving prosthetic material, Cumming enough with blue paint and tattoos. But, that does not mean necessarily penggarapannya easier. In fact, Nightcrawler makeup effects take longer to process, ie ten hours, especially for scenes in a church that shows the body of a mutant capable of teleportation in detail with the existing tattoo on his body.

Cumming confirmed that he had passed the point of shooting with the application of makeup is quite heavy, but this is really incredible. According to the man who also played in SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER, it is very scary when in the morning, two people doing something in his face for four hours. "You have to get into a very Zen kind of place to deal with it," he said.

In X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, a mutant character who comes from Germany will not be displayed because the workmanship make up that takes a long time is not equivalent to the appearance of Nightcrawler that only briefly. Therefore, described in the video game storyline that Nightcrawler decided to get out of membership of X-Men because they do not want to live a life filled with violence like that must be faced by other members of the X-Men.

Nightcrawler then replaced by the blue of the same character, Beast, played by Kelsey Grammar. To create the look of the Beast as we see, the face covered prosthetic Grammar, painted blue, and attached hair pieces consisting of 6 parts, recently closed by the bodysuit. The execution takes of 2.5 - 3 hours