Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV

The book provides a comprehensive guide to mask making materials, techniques, and styles, featuring over 700 color photos and illustrations. It is written for intermediate mask makers, students, and artists and covers topics such as material options, safety, construction, and finishing techniques.

Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 20 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV is a comprehensive guide that introduces and demonstrates a wide range of mask making materials, techniques, and styles to bring extraordinary characters to life. With over 700 color photos and illustrations, the book serves as a valuable foundation reference for mask makers and designers. It provides detailed information on material options, safety considerations, and construction techniques for both large- and small-scale masks. Readers will learn how to use materials such as latex, paper and fabric mâché, cold foam, thermoplastics, polyurethane, polyethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) foam, resin, found objects, and organic materials.

The book also offers valuable tips on topics such as creating rigid polyfoam head forms, three different methods for creating eyes, and step-by-step instructions for constructing 13 different masks. Whether you are an intermediate mask maker, a student of theatrical mask making, a costume crafts enthusiast, a prop builder, a costume designer, or an artist, Mask Making Techniques will provide you with the knowledge and skills to create stunning and lifelike masks for your projects.

Weight: 480g
Dimension: 280 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367149048