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Where is our Rick Baker aka Monstermaker?

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#1

Hopefully you are in the midst of a gut spilling heart chilling production featuring omnifarious creatures from the darkest realms of your nightmares for our viewing pleasures…

For those that still don’t know the works of Rick, the following is a list of most of his body of works I believe.

I know fanfare can probably embarrass some, but I don’t think people realize what an impact this man has had on many of our lives…but here is a good list recognizing his deeds for those that don’t know who he is…

Filmography

Special Effects
‘Bone’ (1972)
‘The Thing with Two Heads’ (1972)
‘Black Caesar’ (1973)
‘Live and Let Die’ (1973)
‘Schlock’ (1973)
‘Food of the Gods’ (1976)
‘Tanya’s Island’ (1980)
‘Gremlins 2 - The New Batch’ (1990)
‘Modern Vampires’ (1998)
‘Wild Wild West’ (1999)
Cursed (2004)
‘Hellboy (Director’s Cut)’ (2004) Make-Up Department
Schlock (1973)
‘It’s Alive’ (1974)
‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman’ (1974)
King Kong (1976)
‘Squirm’ (1976)
Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Zebra Force (1976)
Star Wars’Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)’ (1977)
‘The Incredible Melting Man’ (1977)
It Lives Again’It Lives Again / It’s Alive 3 - Island of the Alive’ (1978)
‘The Fury’ (1978)
‘An American Christmas Carol’ (1979)
‘An American Werewolf in London’ (1981)
‘The Funhouse’ (1981)
‘The Howling (Special Edition)’ (1981)
‘The Incredible Shrinking Woman’ (1981)
‘Videodrome - Criterion Collection’ (1983)
Thriller (1983)
‘Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan’ (1984)
Captain EO (1986)
‘Harry and the Hendersons’ (1987)
‘Coming to America’ (1988)
‘Gorillas in the Mist’ (1988)
‘Missing Link’ (1988)
Something Is Out There (1988)
‘The Rocketeer’ (1991)
‘Body Bags’ (1993)
‘Ed Wood (Special Edition)’ (1994)
‘Wolf’ (1994)
‘Batman Forever’ (1995)
‘Escape from L.A.’ (1996)
‘The Frighteners’ (1996
‘The Nutty Professor - DTS’ (1996)
‘Critical Care’ (1997)
‘Men in Black (Superbit Collection)’ (1997)
‘Mighty Joe Young’ (1998)
‘Life’ (1999)
‘The Grinch (Deluxe Edition)’ (2000)
‘Nutty Professor II - The Klumps (Uncensored Director’s Cut)’ (2000)
‘Planet of the Apes (Double Digipack)’ (2001)
‘Men in Black II (Superbit Collection)’ (2002)
‘The Ring - Collector’s Set (Full Screen Edition)’ (2002)
‘The Haunted Mansion (Widescreen Edition)’ (2003)
“Scratched one entry for personal reasons…”
Hellboy (2004)
The Ring Two (2005) (post-production)

Rick, I hope you continue to share this forum with us. Your digital works to date have been as inspirational as the listed works above.

Kind regards,

Ron
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#2

ahhemmmm…

Not bad!! lol
Impressive carriere!

#3

He is probably busy making another multi million dollar budget hollywood movie :+1: :smiley:

#4

He was just referenced on “American Dad”.
Truly the sign of an icon! Congratulations Rick!

#5

Since we know:

  1. He is now a zbrush addict.
  2. He has fun with it.
  3. He has incorporated it into his work pipeline.
  4. He is not afraid to ask questions here.
  5. He had fun here.
    and most importantly.
  6. He has expressed a preference for anonymity.

He might just be right under our noses.
It might more courteous to him, not to look too hard.
Mr Baker that is.

#6

My first post here… Hello everybody ! :slight_smile:

I wanted to add my two-cents…

Well, I think anyone famous as himself would prefer sharing his passion while being unrecognised. He is an artist, not a wanna-be-famous celebrity.

More important, now we know. So, we have to choose the way we are going to behave : We can be basic, annoying fanboys gaping for him OR we can still considering him a regular forum, Zbrush user who do great stuff, and from who we can learn a lot, not only in Zbrush !

Personnaly, as an ex-SFX make-up artist, I really like his stuff, but I still chose the second option - Hope to share Zbrush stuff and nothing more. :slight_smile:

Bye !

#7

me too i start like vfx makeup artist and i know the legend of Rick from many years, i admire its work from movie and make up book, and… i’m a werewolf fan from when i was a six years guy, when i see wolfman in tv, then many years later when i see an american werewolf in london i think it was the best werewolf of cinema’s history.
we are very lucky too and have in our community a legendary artist like him.

#8

Good list. Don’t forget Beauty and the Beast (Ron Perlman) for TV. Gosh, and Rat Boy for Clint Eastwood and Sandra Locke. There was something called Caribe done about the same time as Bone that was similar stuff, wounds and fracture work. He assisted Dick Smith on The Exorcist as well. Wasn’t Tanya’s Island a Rob Bottin early work? I didn’t know Rick was involved in that. And, of course, his cameo in Peter Jackson’s Kong as a pilot.

~S.~