The Rock, who? How prosthetics helped Dwayne Johnson completely disappear as Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine”

Oscar-nominated special makeup effects artist and prosthetic designer Kazu Hiro details Johnson's transformation into MMA ...

How Makeup Artist Kazu Hiro Turned The Rock Into The Smashing Machine

Kazu Hiro is an expert at making famous people look like other famous people. It's a talent the prosthetic makeup and hair ...

Turning Dwayne Johnson into ‘The Smashing Machine’ Required a New Brow Bone, a Prosthetic Eyelid and a Whole Lot of Tattoo Removal

Prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hiro details his process, right down to learning the actors’ sweat patterns and using seven ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Meet the Atlanta special effects makeup artist behind iconic horror films

In the expansive worlds of horror and science fiction, there is one element essential to films of both genres: makeup special effects. Paired with savvy sound and lighting design, costuming and the ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Cold Spring native, makeup artist transforms Dwayne Johnson in ‘The Smashing Machine’

Cold Spring native Glen Griffin is the special effects makeup artist behind Dwayne Johnson's transformation in the film “The Smashing Machine.” Griffin's career began with a childhood fascination for ...
Backstage

Making Bodies, Boobs + Blood Look Real in ‘The Substance’

In “The Substance,” writer-director Coralie Fargeat turns her lens on toxic beauty standards and takes body horror to new, visceral extremes. The film follows former fitness star Elisabeth Sparkle ...