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Special make-up effects and Creature design Studio based in the Netherlands. Owner Rogier Samuels.

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Between 2025/ 2026 we worked on Basta! for @hollandslichtproducties / Videoland directed by Remy van Heugten. We created the Illizarov external fixator frame and some additional make-up effects for our wonderful actor @chrispeters
Great work by @in_kees_of_metals on the Illizarov and prosthetic assistance by Shao Lin van Vliet.

#specialprops #prop #props #prosthetics #specialmakeupeffects by @mimicfxstudio

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2 months ago

Last year I was fortunate enough to be invited to join the prosthetic team on Evil Dead Burn in New Zealand. Headed by Hair, Make-up and Prosthetic designer Jane O'Kane and co-designer and supervisor @jase_doc we had a small team of talented people to make a lot of stuff! Working with friends I have known for over 25 years it was like coming home. Here is a little BTS with some of the work we all did.

#EvilDeadBurn #prosthetics #specialmakeupeffects #sfxmua #mimicfxstudio by @mimicfxstudio

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2 months ago

This is the Behind the Scenes Clip in the workshop showing the making of an octopus for Truly Naked.
Big thanks to my crew for their talent and
hard work!

@damalto
@maarten_mutte_verhoeven
@v.f.mensink
@julia_warmerdam
@stephan.vos
@bartthoss
@lukascuiper

#creaturedesign #trulynaked #mimicfxstudio #bts #makingoff by @mimicfxstudio

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5 months ago

Ai or not ai. That's the question.
But before we dive into that, let me first thank my fantastic crew for bringing this octopus to life. Because yes, the octopus is not ai. Not real either, because it's rubber, but you get my drift. A lot of work, by real people was done to make this creature. A combination of old and new techniques, like traditional clay sculpting, but also digital zbrush sculpting. Traditional moulding, but also 3D printing.

TRULY NAKED a movie by Muriel d'Ansembourg
Octopus designer and supervisor: Rogier Samuels
3D model: @damalto and @maarten_mutte_verhoeven
3D printing and animateonics: @v.f.mensink
Workshop crew:
@julia_warmerdam
@stephan.vos
@bartthoss
Intern Timofey Grodetskiy and @lukascuiper
Puppeteers:
Rogier Samuels
Julia Warmerdam
Stephan Vos

So about ai. The botom picture was made in my workshop when the paintjob was finished, ready to be packed to travel to set in Belgium. You can still see the rope holding up the back of the octopuses head, if you look closely. Original picture, nothing changed, no ai.
The top picture has an ai background. I prompted to keep the octopus untouched, and use the lightsources of the lamps and turn them into men with tourches and place everything on a beach.

So the ethical question is: can we use ai for this?
As long as it isn't used to change or better the work itself? And with a mention of what it has changed? Should we? Knowing ai needs vasts amounts of power to feed datacenters. Vast amounts of water, cooling these centers. Should we embrace it like we have with other technological advances like zbrush and 3D printing? Using it as one more tool in our kit. Or should we stay away?
It is something I haven't got a straight answer to myself. And I'm not trying to start a never ending discussion in this post, but it is good to think about it.
So for this one I flicked the ai label on. Eventhough it is only particially ai.

The next post, if you took the effort to read this far, will be a BTS clip how we made this octopus. No ai in that one. Promise.

#creaturedesign # octopus #trulynaked #mimicfxstudio by @mimicfxstudio

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Here is a teaser close-up of something we made for 'Truly Naked' from director Muriel d'Ansembourg. In cinemas now!
We shot this in 2023. Big team effort, as always. More pictures to follow as are the credits for my crew.

#trulynaked #crearuredesign #mimicfxstudio by @mimicfxstudio

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5 months ago

The full trailer of EVIL DEAD BURN.
Great times working on this last year. Reconnecting with friends from our Lord of the Rings days. Small but excellent team lead by HMU and Prosthetic designer Jane O'Kane and Prosthic co-designer and supervisor @jase_doc

#EDB #evildeadburn #bloodandgore #prosthetics by @mimicfxstudio

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Evil Dead Burn. In theatres July 10.
Last year I spend 10 weeks working on this in New Zealand. Small but great prosthetic team under the guidance of HMU and prosthetic designer Jane O'Kane and Prosthetic codesigner and supervisor @jase_doc
It will be bloody!

#evildeadburn #evildead #prosthetics by @mimicfxstudio

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5 months ago

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026!
Oh and yes, a completely new website to start the new year!
#mimicfxstudio #specialmakeupeffects #merrychristmas #newwebsite by @mimicfxstudio

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10 months ago

TBT: The Matrix Resurrections. Sculpture of Neo's body with my focus on the organs, Lisa Riegel doing an amazing head and @andrea.eusebi masterfully sculpting the right arm. I think @luigidandrea_sfx
pitched in tying it all together.
All done in Berlin for my friends @twilightcreations
The crew consisted of a lot of talented people doing a lot of great work. Unfortunately most of it did not make it into the final cut.

#matrix4 #matrixresurrections #sculpting #sculpture #monsterclay by @mimicfxstudio

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10 months ago

Club der Dinosaurier @clubderdinosaurierseite
For @twilightcreations

Application on stunt double @pascal.siffert

As the wonderful prosthetics were made for the lead actor and not for our stunt double, we had to do some tweaking, but we made it work.

Application by Rogier Samuels assisted by @bymadou_

Make up effects design by @twilightcreations Concept Art and creature design by Jörn Seifert and @jetblackbug and @damalto Prosthetics Sculpted by
@rfx_propmaking Mold making by
@dennis.penkov @teptec_daniel.ritt and Magnus Hjeldnes
Silicone cowl and horns running @c.gruesome.fx
Facial pieces silicone running Kerstin Buss and @lalax_ro Hairpunching
@transferbrows
Paint design by @julietteruetz
painters @julietteruetz @jordi_morera_studio, @raquel_mfx, @paintinghostsfx,Kerstin Buss, Anna von Gwinner Teeth by @fangsfx
Contact lenses by @9mmsfx Application and Supervised by Jörn Seifert
Thanks TC for having me on board!
@syrreal_entertainment @eitelsonnenschein_film @kinglutz75
#derclubderdinosaurier #prosthetics #silicone #dino #dinosaur #realisticart #paintingg #reptile #mouldmaking #sculpting #hyperrealism #zdfneo #dinomakeup #syrreal #twilightcreations #reptileappliances #setlife #prostheticdesigner #specialmakeupeffects #specialeffectmakeup #txmakeupartist #sfxwounds #sfxgore #sfxmakeupart #sfxmakeuptutorial #makeupeffect #specialmakeupfx #specialmakeup by @mimicfxstudio

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a year ago

What a great surprise to see our friends and collegues from South Africa in Amsterdam!
@picturesofdee
Harper Alice Smith
@clintonaidensmith

#goodtimes #goodcompany #goodfood by @mimicfxstudio

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a year ago

#nff2025 #nff #hairandmakeupdesign by @mimicfxstudio

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2 years ago