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I spend a fair amount of time researching credits for movies and generally browsing makeup artists’ websites so I thought I’d highlight a few I’ve encountered on my virtual travels.

I’ll start with a few sites from French makeup artists:

Nomansland FX is a new  multi-lingual website from French FX artists Jean-Christophe Spadacci, Pascal Molina, and Denis Gastou: Dante 01, Sagan, Videocq, Immortel, The Crimson Rivers, Kiss of the Dragon, Irreversible, etc. It is well worth a visit — I particularly liked Sylvie Testud’s transformation into an older Françoise Sagan for the forthcoming mini-series Sagan. 

FXcinema  is the website of Pierre-Olivier Thevenin, Jacques-Olivier Molon and Frédéric Balmer. Between them they have worked on Bon voyage, Bloody Mallory, The Pink Panther, and Dans la peau d’un noir (the French version of Black.White.).

Pierre-Olivier Persin has worked on a series of interesting movies, including Sa Majeste Minor and Bloody Mallory.

FX-Studio is the website of David Scherer who has worked on a heap of French movies.

Frédéric Balmer has worked on Bloody Mallory, La Chambre des officiers and other movies. I am not sure whether he still updates this site as it may have been replaced by FXcinema.

SileFx is the website of Laurent Zupan.

This is by no means intended to be a comprehensive list of French movie makeup websites. I plan on including no more than six links in each of these brief features. If you want your site covered next time I get round to France or listed in the blogroll, add a comment below.

Next time, I’ll do Germany, then Japan and South America. I’m deliberately leaving the English speaking countries until later in the series as the prominent makeup artists in those countries are already well-known internationally.

update 31/10/2007: the FXcinema website has rematerialised from whatever void it had got lost in.