I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.
Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.
I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.
I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
