Caput Madusae
Crysta
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Hello everyone!
I work at a medical school and I hire actors to come in and pretend to be sick/injured for our students to practice on. I've been using prosthetics and makeup for most things and it has worked pretty well so far (thank heavens for Stan Winston!). However, one of our upcoming cases is a bit more difficult and I'm not sure how to go about making this effect. It is called Caput Madusae and I'm not really sure how to make it look/feel like the veins are enlarged and swollen. In many instances, the patient also has a large "beer belly" due to an enlarged liver. Does anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can recreate this effect?
I work at a medical school and I hire actors to come in and pretend to be sick/injured for our students to practice on. I've been using prosthetics and makeup for most things and it has worked pretty well so far (thank heavens for Stan Winston!). However, one of our upcoming cases is a bit more difficult and I'm not sure how to go about making this effect. It is called Caput Madusae and I'm not really sure how to make it look/feel like the veins are enlarged and swollen. In many instances, the patient also has a large "beer belly" due to an enlarged liver. Does anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can recreate this effect?
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Otherwise, you could make some enlarged vein prosthetics and apply those to the actor, or use a material like gelatin or 3rd-degree silicone to sculpt the enlarged veins directly onto the actor.
/Chris