Special Effects Makeup Artist Course
This course provides essential training for aspiring special effects makeup artists, focusing on practical techniques for creating realistic injuries and prosthetics in film production while emphasizing safety, efficiency, and narrative integration.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Special Effects Makeup Artist Course equips you with hands-on skills for creating lifelike injuries on film sets, including cuts, bruises, and breaks using prosthetics and colour layering. You'll study body structure, injury progression, designs tailored to characters, safe products, cleanliness standards, allergy measures, scene continuity, and cost-effective methods to achieve convincing effects under bright lights and strict deadlines.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Film-ready injury makeup: Build realistic wounds for HD close-ups quickly.
- Prosthetic sculpting basics: Create, mould, and apply small FX pieces on set.
- Safe SFX workflow: Protect actors with professional skin preparation, hygiene, and removals.
- Story-driven injuries: Design trauma that fits the character, script, and framing.
- Low-budget FX planning: Maintain realism while reducing time and product costs.
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