Brian Penikas Photo Gallery

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ALIEN NATION

Brian and an Alien Nation Girl

POLAROID ALIEN SUIT

Foam constructed Alien Suit for Polaroid.

Foam Alien Suit for Polaroid Commercial.

Another angle.

BIGFOOT

Carlsberg Bigfoot suit -- 8' tall (243 cm).

CROWN WORLD AIRLINES

(W. WELLMAN JR.)

These fat makeups were done on actor William Wellman Jr..

I had to do a series of "fat" makeups on actor William Wellman Jr., who gets progressively healthier throughout the film.

Here's Bill in the unpainted piece.

CYCLOPS

During a break from Batman & Robin, I had the chance to do this Cyclops for a theme park media company.

Traditional product placement shot. Makeup in progress (before tusks and body makeup).

Body Makeup in progress. Tusks now in place.

The nearly finished makeup.

DINOSAPIENS

For the Disney Channel

These cute little critters were made with the theory; "What would life have been like if man had evolved from dinosaurs and reptiles?"

Another angle.

Slip latex background masks with resin eyes and ambidextrous hands were made for all family members.

FRAZETTA COPIES

Here are the Frazetta copies that I painted in junior high. I've enclosed Frazetta's original Death Dealer for reference.

Death Dealer. For comparison's sake, here's the "real deal" by Frank Frazetta.

My version of Frazetta's DEATH DEALER July 1978, 14 hours. I had just turned 15 years old.

AGAINST THE GOD'S, Another of my Frazetta counterfeits.

BIRDMAN, April 1979. A woman that I would babysit for asked if I could paint something for her apartment with yellow as the dominant color.

MOON MAIDEN April 1979. My fourth and final completed Frazetta counterfeit.

JUDGE MAKEUP for FRIGHTENERS

Test makeup on actor John Astin as "Judge" ghost for the 1996 release "The Frighteners"

The second of several test makeups for the Judge.

Completed makeup

GREMLINS 2

One of the dozens and dozens of puppets I painted in my 9 month tenure on Gremlins 2.

ZIETGEIST

This sculpture as well as numerous busts and production drawings, were part of a design package for a film project that never happened.

This, the "skeletal" paint scheme, was my favorite and first choice for the final look of the creature.

This paint scheme for the creature was designed with hippopotamus coloration as reference.

TRUNCHBULL for MATILDA

Here are the Trunchbull makeups.
The wonderful Pam Ferris played the evil school principal "Trunchbull" in Danny Devito's film "MATILDA".

Another angle of the first test-makeup and dress rehearsal day.

Here's a closeup of Pam's nose tip without mottled color.

MURDER IN THE FIRST

Kevin Bacon makeups. After a month and a half of testing different materials for the Kevin's scars, it was a unanimous decision to go with gelatin for his eyebrow/lid piece.

Kevin also wore one of two contact lenses that I specially designed for different phases of his character's condition.

Another trick I used on Kevin's makeup was a wash of dental enamels to gunk out his teeth everyday.

This is one of several reference masks that I had made as 3-D guides to the different looks of Kevin's character. Always a good idea to have something like this on a show in case of a freak accident or natural disaster.

Kevin three days after severe beating, minus moustache and mud.

Again, gelatin appliances were used to create the trauma effect.

The prosthetics consisted of the main eye area piece, a nose bump, and a lip-split.

NBC's PROFILER

Gelatin Burn scars. Here's another plug for gelatin. The producers called me to see if I could make a burn-scar makeup that would work for a few days of filming.

SILICONE WARS

This prosthetic make-up was done for an upcoming HBO feature "Silicone Wars".

This poor gal is suffering from a leaky silicone implant job.