NEWS BREAK! Special Effects Genius Dave Trainor
For Herschel Gordon Lewis' BLOODMANIA Is Nominated For
His Superlative SFX On The Popular TV Series FARGO
Diabolique News Update: February 20, 2016 - Hollywood, CA
"FARGO" TV Series Special Effects & Make-Up Team (l to r) Dave Trainor, Tea-Christina Scott, Gunther Schetter & Gail Kennedy arrive for the Make-Up Artists And Hair Stylists Guild Awards at the Paramount Theatre in Paramount Studios, CA.
Johnny Depp presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to Oscar®-winning make-up artist Ve Neill (The Hunger Games, Face Off) and Oscar-winning hair stylist Yolanda Toussieng (Insurgent). Presenters for this year’s awards included Tamera Mowry-Housley (The Real), Timothy Omundson (Galavant), LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Kate Flannery (The Office), June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie), Lauren Lapkus (Orange Is the New Black), Arielle Kebbel (Ballers, Fifty Shades Darker), Dove Cameron (Liv and Maddie), Melody Thomas Scott (The Young and the Restless), Brian Letscher (Scandal), Dash Mihok (Ray Donovan), Doug Jones (The Strain), AMPAS President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Michael Key (Make-up Artist Magazine Publisher).
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Dave Trainor is also the special makeup effects designer for Herschell Gordon Lewis'BLOODMANIA
About SFX Master Dave Trainor
We mainly produce realistic, life-size, human figures, and cater to the motion picture, museum, and commercial display industries. In addition to the experience Dave brings to the table, El Diablo Inc. draws on the talents of numerous artists with various skills to produce high-quality work. Visit Dave Trainor's websitehere
Museum Figures - Sculpture
El Diablo Inc. creates life-size, realistic, human figures, using an underlying metal armature, based on the human skeleton. This armature allows each figure the advantage of being poseable and adaptable to a number of different positions.
The heads of the figures are painted, and cast in fiberglass, plastic polymer, or lifelike silicone. Each head includes:
- A choice of plastic or custom resin eyes (optional & extra cost)
- Eyelashes & eyebrows
- Three-dimensional stubble (optional on silicone heads)
The hands are poseable when made of urethane or silicone, or can be cast into a fixed position using a hard polymer. Check out our Gallery section to view samples of previous work including Saddam Hussein, Al Capone, and Edgar J. Hoover.
Process
Producing a realistic figure takes many years of experience and experimentation. Creating the head involves the following steps:
- A life-cast is taken of the subject using life-casting alginate. A plaster bust is poured from this cast (the bust is needed to sculpt open the eyes).
- A silicone mold is made from the bust, and “the skin” (silicone or hard-shell plastic polymer) is poured into this silicone mold.
- The skin is removed from the mold, and the head is painted using a combination of airbrushing, stippling and fine brush work.
- The hair is then applied by laying it directly on the head, or securing a lace piece on the hard surface. Hair can also be punched in one hair at a time on the silicone skin.
- The next step is setting the eyeballs into the head and applying a final paint touch-up.
- If the head is produced in silicone, it is attached to a foam covered, armatured body, supplied by a local manufacturer.
- The hands are then attached, but still removable for shipping.
Look-a-like heads are also available (i.e. replicas of historic figures, celebrities, etc.). In this case, the subject is sculpted out of clay using photographs, and a mold is subsequently made from this clay head.
Manufactured in North America
All El Diablo's museum figures are fabricated with North American labour and materials. Here are just some of the many feature movies and TV series Dave Trainor has worked on: In Cold Blood (TV Movie) (1996), Blade II (2002), The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003), Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010), Hell on Wheels (TV Series) (2011 -2012), Survival Code (2013), Fargo (TV Series) (2014). Check out Dave's imdb profilehere
Gallery Museum Figures
- Sculpture - See custom museum sculpture figures of Saddam Hussein, Al Capone, Edgar J. Hoover and more.
- Process - Step-by step process of creating a realistic head.
Makeup Effects
- Motion Pictures - See prosthetic appliances and sculptures from major motion pictures
- Television - View makeup effects from popular TV shows
- Art Sculptures
Prop Construction
- Television - See various props from television and commercial spots
- Motion Pictures - View props from movies such as: Blade 2, The Claim, The Edge and The Reflecting Skin
- Commercial Display - See projects created for the Calgary Fire Department, Hard Rock Cafe and more
Mini Biography
Dave Trainor was born in 1960 in Ontario, Canada. He began his journey as an artist very early, fed in childhood on a steady diet of Hammer Horror, Ed “Big Daddy’ Roth, and the wonders of Disneyland and the Southern California culture.
At age seven, he began sketching animals, hot rods and monsters for his classmates. He moved on in high school to creative endeavours that included painting rock tour t-shirts for ten bucks a pop and selling them to his friends, family, or anyone else who would buy one. His post-secondary years were spent at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he was exposed to the three pivotal cultural offerings that would shape his career:
- Seeing the first "Alien" film, directed by Ridley Scott
- Seeing Rick Baker’s work in "An American Werewolf in London"
- Discovering “Fangoria” magazine Issue # 6
Clients
Dave is proud to have served a variety of acclaimed clients:
Associations / Affiliations
- El Diablo Inc. 2000 - Present, Owner
- I.A.T.S.E. Local 212 1995 - Present, Member
- Doneff Trainor & Associates 1994 - 2007, Co-Owner
- The Gizmo Shop 2000 - 2003, Co-Owner
- Red House Film Partners 1989 - 1992, Partner
- Threshold Studios 1986 - 1992, Co-Owner
Links
- The Internet Movie Database - IMDB
- I.A.T.S.E. Local 212 - Homepage
- Contact Dave Trainor: dave@eldiabloinc.ca