EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS |
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| Philip L. Nichols, Jr. -Founder, Owner of Facades FX - Key Effects Artist and Designer |
- Lon Morris College 1982 –1984 (A. A. Liberal Arts)
- University of Houston 1984-1986 (Theatre Arts)
- University of Houston Clear Lake 1986-1988 (Theatre Arts)
- Dick Smith Advanced Make-up course 1990-1995 (Special Make-up FX, Make-up Effects Artistry Certification)
- Lonestar College North Harris 2004 (Visual Arts, Geology, Kinesiology/Weight Training, Lighting for Film and Video)
- Alvarez Wax Models 2003 (wax museum portrait sculpture mentorship)
- Schell Sculpture Studio 2003 (Creature Design)
- Maher School of Ventriloquism 1977
- 31 years of practical life experience: trial and error in Visual and Creative Arts
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Special Skills Relative To Field- Studio Arts, Fine Arts, Creative Arts-full training. Costume History, Design, Construct, Engineer, Fabrication, Molding and Tooling, Chemist, Alchemist (resins & casting materials), Foam Latex Technician, Plastics, A & B compounds, 3-Part compounds, Carpentry, Anatomy, Paleontology, Critical Analysis.
Additional skills- Actor, Puppeteer, Stage Combat, Fencing, Director, Screenwriter, Producer. |
ASSOCIATIONS and MEMBERSHIPS |
- IATSE local 706 Make-Up Artists and Hairstylists
- SAG - Screen Actors Guild - puppeteer
- HPG - Houston Puppetry Guild
- ITS -International Thespian Society
- USITT - United States Institute for Theatre Technology
- AACT - American Association of Community Theatres
- PHG - Playhouse Gothique, Founder, Artistic Director
- SFVP - Society For Vertebrate Paelontology
- HGMS - Houston Gem and Mineral Society, Paelontology Chapter
- HMNS - Houston Museum of Natural Science
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AWARDS |
 Worldfest Houston - International Film Festival, Golden Remi for direction 2005
"How To Make A Monster", Instructional/ How To category.
Philip won in this category for direction, but he wrote, directed and produced this project.
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| Melissa L. Nichols- Assistant Effects Artist/ Art Director/ Graphics Designer |
- Aldine Contemporary Education Center Advanced Visual Arts Program 1985-1986
- Stephen F. Austin State University Fine Arts Program 1987-1988
- Lonestar College North Harris Visual Communications School (A. A. Multi-media Design) 2010 (pending)
- Kim Soo College of Tae Kwon Karate (Jokyonim 1st Gup of Chayon-Ryu Arts) 2004 - 2009
- 30+ years of practical life experience: trial and error in Visual and Creative Arts
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ASSOCIATIONS and MEMBERSHIPS |
- National Honor Society
- PHG- Playhouse Gothique - Associate Artistic Director of Pantomine Troupe
- International Chayon-Ryu Martial Arts Association
- NWMAF - National Women's Martial Arts Federation
- NPTMAA - National Paper Tiger Martial Arts Alliance, Founder
- GAAA - Graphic Artist Association of America
- American Heart Association CPR Certification
- HGMS - Houston Gem and Mineral Society, Paelontology Chapter
- National Wildlife Fund, charter member
- EGS - Earl Grey Society for the study of paranormal phenomina and the oocult
- HGH - Houston Ghost Hunters, paranormal investigations
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Special Skills Relative To Field-Fine Arts, Studio Arts, Creative Arts-full training. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Design Premium Software, Digital Photography, Digital Imaging, Free Hand Illustration (not the software, the actual skill!), Layout, Costume History, Design, Construct, Engineer, Fabrication, Molding and Tooling, Carpentry.
Additional skills- Actor, Screen Writer, Self-Defense Instructor, fight choreographer, skilled in empty hand techniques including soft style, hard style and throwing art techniques, weapons skills: pole arms (spear, bayonet, chung bong, junken, gwan dao), bladed weapons (katana, cutlass) Kobudo (sai, nunchaku, bo, jo, three section staff). |
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FEATURE FILM CREDITS |
2010 |
- Boggy Creek -Brian T. Jaynes - currently in production. SPFX Make-up , Gore and Creature FX for reimagining of the classic "Bigfoot" swamp monster tale.
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2009 |
- Spoiled Rotten - Jeff Peeples. currently in production. Design and build various zombie make-ups, and fabricate duplicate head of actor in zombie make-up to be blown away by shotgun blast.
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- 2-S.I.C.K. (Serial Insane Clown Killer 2) - currently in development. Design and build Ventriloquist Clown dummy, Killer's mask of human skin, gore, blood and effects.
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- Vampire Diaries: Renfield (Feature)-currently in pre-production. Design, build, apply creature effects, prosthetics, blood, gore effects.
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- Walking Distance -designed, built and applied, gore effects and stretching skin effects.
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- Javelina The Movie -Designed and built Special Effect Animatronic Javelina Head Props.
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2008 |
- Vampire Diaries: Renfield (Trailer) - designed built and applied prosthetics, vampire dentures, blood effects, wounds and gore.
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2003 |
- S.I.C.K. (Serial Insane Clown Killer)-Boke Entertainment. Makeup. Special Effects including severed heads, cannibal props and a killer's human skin clown mask.
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2001 |
- Cremains- Outlaw Video. Designed and created animatronic Puppet Ghoul called "The CREMAINDER" (also used on the video/DVD box cover).
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- Baker Street Alley Club- Champion Entertainment. Scenic design, construction, fabrication.
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1999 |
- Arlington Road- Lakeshore Entertainment. Special Makeup for bombing victims, blown up hand makeup for Mason Gamble (New Dennis the Menace), blood work on Jeff Bridges.
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1998 |
- Twinkle-Twinkle- Makeup effects Cancer makeup. Latex bald cap, and pale sickly make-up on a small child.
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- Too Much Bootie-Prosthetic Make-up for Rapper Bapp. Created from stock make-up appliances a Father and Grandfather prosthetic make-ups for the actor to portray his own family. Ultra LOW budget blackxploitation film patterned after The Nutty Professor and Coming to America.
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1997 |
- Rushmore- Walt Disney Productions. Prosthetics manufacture.
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- Killing The Badge- Makeup Effect. Bullet hit.
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1996 |
- The Pizza Guy -Starn Productions. Special make-up effects. Supplied stock makeup appliances to create a variety of “Cheezey B-movie” type alien creatures.
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- Rough Riders-TNT Television. John Milieus Dir. Make-up, Prosthetic Make-up application. Local help (uncredited) applied bullet graze prosthetic to actor Chris Noth (“Law and Order”, “Sex in the City”). I applied makeup on actors Geoffrey Lewis and Francesco Quinn. Applied hundred of blood paste and blood gel wounds for battle scenes, and Cuban and Spanish makeup to extras.
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- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls-Morgan Creek, Warner Bros. Prosthetic Make-up Application Applied prosthetic foam latex tribal ear lobes and painted on African tribal body makeup to hundreds of extras (some featured), prepped prosthetics for daily application for W.M. Creations (Academy award winners for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Schindler’s List, X-Files Movies, CSI TV series).
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- Powder-Caravan Pictures. Assisted Tom Burman (Original Planet of the Apes) and Steve LaPorte (Beetle Juice) in the application of full body airbrush and latex bald cap “Powder” make-ups on Sean Patrick Flannery and his stuntmen, as well as working on the animatronic deer team for Amalgamated Dynamics (Wolf, Alien 3, The Santa Clause, Alien Vs Predator).
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- America, A Call To Greatness-Paige Brace Cinema, NBC, Walt Disney Corp. Special Make-up. Designed and created 21 prosthetic make-ups, wigs and costumes to recreate various historical figures from US history. Including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson [young and old], Andrew Jackson, Rev. John Witherspoon, Will Rogers, Calvin Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Abigail Adams, and others. Extensive Foam Latex prosthetics were sculpted molded cast, created and applies as well a hand made wigs and hair pieces on this Television Special.
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1994 |
- Jason's Lyric-Gramercy Pictures/Black Crow Productions. Make-up Effects. Created gore effects for gang related violence scenes on actors Bokheime Woodbine (Sopranos), and “missing” leg foam latex prosthetic on actor Forest Whitaker (The Crying Game). Applied tattoos.
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1993 |
- The Dark Dancer-Third Coast Entertainment. Make-up effects. Created scarring and aged makeup for actor Francesco Quinn, bullet hit in the forehead for Francesco Quinn and throat slitting effects on Andrew Prine (V, the Eliminators). Other throat slitting and various acts of carnage.
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- The Trust- Quadrangle Films. Make-up Designer, Makeup Department head. Created 1890’s to the 1950’s period makeup looks for the cast. Ageing make-ups on several key characters, period beards and hair work, personal makeup artist to Sam Bottoms.
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- Altered Love-RW Productions. Special make-up. Created casualty makeup, and needle effects.
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- Jacklight-Starn productions. Creature Effects. Created animatronic deer puppet for night hunting scenes.
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- Pop Love-KJ Productions. Special Make-up. Slit wrist suicide makeup.
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- Cultivating Charlie-GMS Productions. Make-up, Special Make-up. Day Checker. Applied historical recreation make-ups out of the kit.
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- Occio Pinoccio-Cechi Gori Group. Italian production. Makeup for photo shoot on lead actor.
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1990 |
- Behind The Mask: a serial in six chapters-Sandpiper Productions. Special Make-up Effects, Prosthetic Make-up, Creatures. Low Budget Action Super hero film. Designed and created all of the makeup special effects, Super Hero. Super Villain gadgets, costumes, prosthetic disguises, corpses, models, miniatures, and effects in a comic book graphic style.
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1989 |
- Look Who's Toxic-Tumbleweed Productions. Special Make-up Effects, Prosthetic Make-up. Created all of the Gore effects, the prosthetic makeup for the toxic monster makeup and the heart harvesting surgery.
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- The Broken Spur-Sandpiper Productions. Make-up, Wardrobe, Props. Supplied all of the period makeup looks, as well as special props, costumes and various character effects.
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- Haunted -Sandpiper Productions. Special Make-up Effects, Prosthetic Make-up, Creatures. No budget “Kids vs. the monsters” film in 3-d. Designed and created animatronic werewolf, two separate werewolf transformations, a man made monster, Count Dracula, Dracula’s man to bat transformation, Dracula’s death, A Hunchbacked servant, various props, all of the monster costumes, Dracula’s coffin, and dentures for all.
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- THE MOMENT OF TRUTH: Mars/Hill Productions. Special Make-up. Designed and created rotted demon makeup for the demon Moloch the corrupter of children.
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- MURDER WISHES: Houston Cinema Group. Make-up Effects. Created severed fingers, prosthetic and various blood and gore effects.
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- KEATON’S COP: Third Coast Entertainment. Created bullet hole prosthetics and bald cap prosthetics for regular makeup artists (Bob & Sally Harper) to apply.
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- TAD: TNT Television. Supplied makeup artists (Bob & Sally Harper) latex “Lincoln mole” prosthetics for Kris Kristofferson’s portrayal of Abe Lincoln.
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- POINT MAN: Bodega Bay productions. Created and supplied latex black eye prosthetics for the regular makeup artists (Bob & Sally Harper) to apply for the Pilot feature.
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PROFESSIONAL LEGITIMATE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS |
| The ALLEY THEATRE |
- 1996
THE NERD: Summer Chillers, Gregory Boyd. Fabricated full sized Creature from the Black Lagoon costume.
- 1997
SLEUTH: Summer Chillers, Gregory Boyd. Sculpted and fabricated facial prosthetic makeup and dental bridge for Inspector Doppler disguise.
- 1999
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: New Production. Fabricated Head and Animatronic hands for the Ghost of Christmas Future.
- 2000
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: Summer Chillers. Gregory Boyd. Fabricated foam latex prosthetics for actor James Black to wear as Jonathan Brewster.
- 2007
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: Gregory Boyd. Fabricated foam latex prosthetics for actor James Black to wear as Jonathan Brewster.
- 2008
CYRANO DE BERGERAC: Gregory Boyd. Sculpted and manufactured the foam latex prosthetic noses for Cyrano.
- 2009
ROCK 'N' ROLL: Gregory Boyd. Sculpted and manufactured foam elements for an effects body suit depicting a cancer patient's surgery scars (double mastectomy/hysterectomy).
- SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CRUCIFER OF BLOOD: Gregory Boyd. Created foam latex prosthetics for two characters: Characer with a glass eye who aged 30 years, and a Leper.
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| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA |
- 1996
SALOME: Created severed head prop of singer Richard Paul Fink for his role as John the Baptist.
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| HOUSTON BALLET |
- 1997
THE NUTCRACKER: Created a more dancer friendly ferocious looking eight headed Rat King
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HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS - |
2007 |
- THE LOST WORLD OF PANGEA GARDEN A MESOZOIC EXPERIENCE: Artistic Director, Designer, Research team leader Created a Dinosaur photo attraction at the Houston Gem and Mineral Society's Annual Gem, Fossil and Mineral Expo. Costume Design, Paleoartist.
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2003 |
- THE LOST WORLD OF PANGEA GARDEN A MESOZOIC EXPERIENCE: Artistic Director, Designer, Research team leader Created a Dinosaur photo attraction at Trader’s Village trader’s market. Costume Design, Paleoartist
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2002 |
- SCREAM WORLD: Designed and crated 50 prosthetic Monster make-ups. ACTOR: puppeteer Animatronic mask and costume of Strigoi Vampyre. Stalked patrons waiting in line to get into the haunted house.
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2000 - 2005 |
- HELL HOUSE: Chadbourn North Carolina Baptist Church. Design, sculpt and create “Devil and Satan” prosthetics for this church’s annual fall haunted house.
- NETHERWORLD: Ben Armstrong Artistic Director. Supply Prosthetics, Prosthetic Masks, Custom fit stock dentures, and props to this superior professional Haunted Attraction on a seasonal basis.
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1997 |
- VAMPYRE HOUSE: Designed, fabricated, produced and directed this unique production that celebrated literary vampire characters and the 100th anniversary of the publication of “Dracula”. Characters included: Graf Orlock, Carmilla, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, The Croglin Grange Vampire, Count Dracula and his brides, Lucy Westenra, Professor Van Helsing, and R. N. Renfield. Make-up included everything from heavy paint to foam latex prosthetics, ventilated wigs, Fang caps, fang bridges, Animatronic animated wolf, elaborate sets recreating graveyards and ship wrecks, interiors of castles and catacombs, etc. A High class haunted house that was featured on the local NBC affiliate’s news program.
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1996 |
- CHATEAU DU MACABRE: Texas Renaissance Festival. Supplied animatronics and prosthetics for various tortures and monsters of Vlad Dracula’s torture Chamber.
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1988 |
- HAUNTED HOUSE II: THE HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS: Theatre Guild UHCL. / Bay Area Hilton Hotel. Supplied prosthetics, corpses, heads and other items made to resemble those of the great horror soap opera of the 1960’s “Dark Shadows”.
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1987 |
- HAUNTED HOUSE I: Theatre Guild UHCL. Supplied various masks, prosthetics, props and costumes of monsters, ghouls and other scary creatures.
- THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD: Haunted house attraction for fraternal organization at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX. Created various and sundry severed body parts and supplied stage blood and props.
- SIX FLAGS ASTROWORLD FRIGHT NIGHTS: supplied masks for they’re various characters.
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