Mark Rappaport (born 1954) is an American make-up special effects artist.
Working in movies and theaters, Rappaport and his company Creature Effects, Inc. specialize in creating hyper-realistic makeup effects and animatronic animals, including Tom Cruise's horse at The Last Samurai, and prosthetic makeup effects for 300 and I Am Legend .
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Biography
Rappaport was born in Yokohama, Japan. At the age of three, his family moved to the Napa Valley in northern California. He graduated from high school in Napa and attended San Diego State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree. After graduation, he returned to Northern California and worked in law enforcement before meeting and working with Bob Hartman, a dalang and a San Francisco street performer. His work with Hartman sparked interest in creating an effect for the entertainment industry and he pursued a job in Industrial Light & amp; Magic. At ILM he works on feature film projects, including Innerspace and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . From ILM, Rappaport works with Chris Walas and creates effects for movies including The Fly II and Child's Play .
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Careers
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai Production requires an animatronic horse capable of performing a series of actions that will make the horse and the real rider in danger of serious injury. Rappaport was assigned to build a horse that could seamlessly replace Tom Cruise's original horse for the scenes. Rappaport said, "This may be the latest horse or animated creature ever made for a movie, it costs $ 1.5 million to make it." It sits in its place, he stands, it falls, and it looks really real.
300
Rappaport (inspector of creature effects) and Shaun Smith (makeup effect controller) work together to create a world of securities for 300 . This vast body includes prosthetic makeup, animatronic animals, props, weaponry, and costume elements. In addition to the incredible horse effect for the film, Rappaport creates an animatronic wolf doll for a scene where young Leonidas confronts predators. "The filmmakers shoot puppet interactions practically attacking young Leonidas in narrow stone gaps, veteran veteran watchtaker Mark Rappaport and his team do doll mechanization with: blinking eyes, head, neck, eyebrows, jaw and tongue movements, saliva tubes and glowing eyes. "
I Am Legend
I_Am_Legend ">For I Am Legend, starring Will Smith Mark Rappaport develops full body silicone makeup for aggressive primitive creatures known as "Darkseekers". The transparent makeup creates the look of a spiny zombie infection and metabolism desired by director Francis Lawrence. The makeup should be applied to the very thin performers to create the look of fatty and protruding body fat. The makeup includes a decaying tooth decaying teeth and a very dilated pupil contact lens. In addition to makeup, Markus studio creates animatronic dolls resembling "Sam" German Shepherd, digital scanning models for infected dogs, wound scars and knives for moulage for Will Smith and many other effects for production.
Other Projects
After designing and producing animatronic horses that can be mounted for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Mark's Studio creates a second horse for the Story before bed. Motion and animatronic features of two horses improved and refined for True Grit and further developed for Cowboys & amp; Aliens. Animatronic horses are used where the action (if done by the original horse) may place a rider or horse at risk of injury or injury.
Movieography
- The Revenant (2015) (animatronic horse)
- Cowboys & amp; Aliens (2011) (animatronic horses)
- True Grit (2010) (animatronic horse)
- Shutter Island (2009) (blood effect)
- Dance Flick (2009) (makeup effect and animatronic effects)
- Do not Look Up (2009) (makeup effect and animatronic effects)
- The Awakened (2009) (creature effect)
- Bedtime Stories (2008) (animatronic effect)
- Soul Men (2008) (makeup effect)
- Meet Spartan (2008) (creature effect watch)
- Bratz: The Movie (2007) (creature effect)
- Shooter (2007) (animatronic effect)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) (creature effect)
- I Am Legend (2007) (creature effect watcher)
- The Comebacks (2007) (animatronic effect)
- The Departed (2006) (blood effect)
- Epic Films (2007) (creature effect watch)
- 300 (2007) (creature effect watch)
- In the King Name: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) (animatronic effect)
- Film Date (2006) (creature effect watch)
- Flicka (2006) (animatronic effects)
- Four Brothers (2005) (animatronic effects)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) (animatronic effects)
- Alamo (2004) (animal props)
- The Last Samurai (2003) (animatronic horse hero)
- Seabiscuit (2003) (animatronic effect)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (mechanical props)
- Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (scan reference and eyeline model)
- Core (bird effect)
- Punch-Drunk Love (gloves for Adam Sandler)
- Scary Movie 2 (makeup effect and props)
- No Such Thing (makeup effect)
- Pterodactyl (creature and makeup)
- Dragonflies (animatronic baby)
- Killing Backlot (makeup and props)
- T2 3-D: Battle Over Time (animatronic mechanical arm)
- Predator 2 (weaponry)
- Dark Army (animatronic skeleton)
See also
- Prosthetic makeup
- Special effects
- Animatronics
- In-camera effect
References
- Mark Rappaport in IMDb
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110714155359/http://www.narniafans.com/archives/tag/mark-rappaport
- http://www.inbaseline.com/person.aspx?person_id=854556
- http://www.losangelesopera.com/artist/rappaport.mark.aspx
- The animatronic deer replaces the life variations in the Narnia movie
- 300: Set Visit!
External links
- Website Creature Effects, Inc.: http://www.creaturefxinc.com
- Mark Rappaport at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710902/
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