Let’s find out how hyper-detailed monster masks are made

“We pull from nature all the time. We’re pulling from pictures of animals and insects and sometimes crime scenes. You know, cadaver photos. Just to get the most realistic paint schemes that we can do.” So says the genial, Rocky III T-shirt-wearing artist George Frangadakis, who is one of the owners of Immortal Masks. This Hollywood-based company specializes in highly detailed silicone monster masks that are customized to the exacting specifications of connoisseurs unsatisfied with the bill of fare at the local Party City Halloween department. Tested.com, the same MythBusters-aligned folks responsible for documenting the Zoidberg Project back in May, recently paid a visit to the Immortal Masks workshop to see how these ghoulish disguises are made and posted a 20-minute tutorial about it to their website and YouTube.