By: Lou Whitmire
Source: http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.co
Category: Film School Online
SHELBY -- Beki Ingram had no problem capturing students' attention Monday at the Performing Arts lab of Pioneer Career and Technology Center. Transforming a model into a zombie will do that for you.
The Minnesota native, who works at Robert Kurtzman's Creature Corps in Crestline, is a contestant on this season's reality competition SyFy TV show, "Face Off." On the show, special-effects makeup artists compete for a $100,000 prize. Ingram shot this season's show in Los Angeles from Sept. 12 to Oct. 30.
The season began airing Jan. 12.
Because of a confidentiality contract, Ingram could not tell students who won this season, but she shared with them the many projects she worked on while performing magic on her co-worker David Greathouse -- also a makeup artist, filmmaker and music video director.
"I really liked the alien project, the last challenge," Ingram said. "That was pretty fun."
Many students follow the show, and they peppered Ingram with dozens of questions about the other contestants.
Ingram told students she always wanted to be an artist, and loved anything to do with art as a girl -- including theater, photography, drawing and painting.
Students asked her if she had great Halloween makeup.
"Every year," she said.
Ingram brought a portfolio from Kurtzman's business, and displayed the head of a Bigfoot suit she created.
Anne Kurtzman, Pioneer's performing arts instructor, said her husband was impressed.
"It was spectacular. She walked in with that," Anne Kurtzman said. "She had visible, tangible artwork."
At the Crestline shop she works on several projects, and is preparing for a Trans World convention in St. Louis that will showcase products made for haunted houses.
Ingram told students she has worked on the set of "Children of the Corn" and "The Dead Matter."
She enjoyed the time spent in Los Angeles, where she met Oscar-winning makeup artist Greg Cannom, a judge on the show who did the makeup for the film "Mrs. Doubtfire," among others.
Source: http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/article/20120301/NEWS01/203010303/Artist-shows-zombie-how-to?odyssey=nav|head
