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#57 – ‘Little John’ Cormican

May 18, 2020 By //  by Stuart

It was a great pleasure to chat with John face to face (before lockdown, I hasten to add) back in December of 2019.

John is a well known (Emmy winning) FX artist who has since gone on to work at Tussauds and is a freelance artist.

I think you will get a real kick out of hearing his take, a perfect attitude to how to feel when creating. We chat about what it means to sculpt, that internal dialogue we all have when creating something new,


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Little John and Geoff Portass (check his interviews on the podcast too)

Fact checking bellend: In this, I mistakenly assign Constantin Brâncuși as the artist behind ‘Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)’ which of course it wasn’t – it was Marcel Duchamp.

‘Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)’
1912, oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x 35 1/8 (151.8 x 93.3 cm) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Links to things we mentioned.

The Barclays Bank commercial directed by Ridley Scott.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnVyANe0ZnE

John Schoonraad Episode: https://battleswithbitsofrubber.com/14-scanners-schoonraads/

Neill Gorton Episode: https://battleswithbitsofrubber.com/51-neill-gorton/

Kris Costa: https://www.instagram.com/theantropus/

Olya Anufrieva: https://www.instagram.com/he77ga/

Follow John on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jcormican/

Johns website: https://johncormican.co.uk/

Some of John’s work

‘Aiming For Peace’
Benedict Cumberbatch head sculpt in progress
Nightbreed at Image Animation, Pinewood Studios.
Vasty Moses sculpt in progress.
Vasty Moses made it to the front cover!
It was this picture of John in makeup from Nightbreed that I recalled
The Judge Dredd wall panels for the movie.
The mermaid tail John mentions in the podcast.
Whoopi Goldberg as The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland (1999)
John won an Emmy for Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Prosthetic) – 2002 for Jack and the Beanstalk, along with Daniel Auber, Steve Bettles and Chris Fitzgerald.

Many thanks. Don’t forget you can get in touch by leaving us a voice message or email stuartandtodd@gmail.com.

– Stuart & Todd

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