High Noon Creations

For those of you that do not know the artist and creator of the products of High Noon Creations, She was a contestant of season two of the long running show on the SyFy channel called Face/Off.
Her name is Heather Henry.
Much like so many of the talented artist that make it on to the show, they are all in the business of transforming people into something totally different. Heather is no different. Heather is the creator and owner of High Noon Creations.


Heather did some make up at the 2015 Transworld show in St Louis called Wild West Medusa. The world on it is wonderful. I was lucky enough to get a quick picture of it as the model Breanna Cooke.

Art work by Heather Henry, Modeled by Breanna Cooke, photo by Paul W. Ferrell

TransWorld 2016 will be another great show with the showcase of many talented artists and thier creations. You never know who you will see and what they will be wearing. It is a crazy time and so much to look at.

The following is from her home page:High Noon Creations

HEATHER HENRY (OWNER/CHIEF ARTIST) HAS BEEN A PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP ARTIST SINCE 2005. SHE COMPETED IN SYFY CHANNEL’S SECOND SEASON OF “FACEOFF” AND HER WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN MOVIES (TRUE GRIT, PARKLAND, UPSTREAM COLOR, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE), TELEVISION (DALLAS, PRISON BREAK, GCB, CHASE), AND COMMERCIALS (PAPA JOHN’S AD FEAT. DEMARCUS WARE AND JERRY JONES). HEATHER’S FIRST AND TRUE LOVE, HOWEVER, IS EFFECTS AND MAKEUP FOR HAUNTS, STAGE AND INDY FILMS.

Here is a link to her Face Off Audition Real

Audition Reel

I have the opportunity to ask Heather some questions before the TransWorld show regarding her work in the haunt industry.

Here are a few questions that I have prepared for her to answer.

1.    With your growing success in the TV and film industry, why do you continue to costume related art link masks and Halloween related projects?

I've been working in tv and film for about 14 years now.  After the writers' strike, I began to diversify.  I started making masks for fun about 5 years ago, and I really enjoy it. Now I split my time between working on set and making masks. I like both too much to quit either.

2.    You have several types of masks that you sell on your website, which do you enjoy painting more?

I enjoy creating new pieces, but most of my time is spent working on filling orders.  Painting new things for the first time is my favorite part of the process, but I also always love to paint the Medusa headdresses.  This year's TransWorld will be the first time they are available for purchase. (I've redesigned them to be more wearable.)

3.    Are you unveiling a new masterpiece at TransWorld this year?

This year at TransWorld,  I won't be selling as many bodies as I have in the past to make room for all of the new pieces.  I'm pretty excited to debut the new stuff!  I'll be selling a few things I've never seen anyone else do before, and I think haunters are going to love them.

4.    Concerning your animal masks, how you get them to look so real with laying the hair so perfectly?

I spend a lot of time creating the animal masks.  I use patterns to attach the bulk of the hair. Then I do fur transfers and flocking to finish them off.  It's time-consuming and messy, but it really makes all the difference!

5.    What type of advice do you have for people that want to get into the business of making haunted house style masks?

As far as advice for others, I'm not sure I'm qualified!  I just make things I want to see, and other people seem to like them.  For me, a business just kind of happened naturally. I could probably grow my business faster, but I really just do it because I enjoy it.  So I guess my advice would be to create masks because it's what you love to do. Try to come up with new designs, and with luck and persistence, the business will follow.

Her answers where very interesting and insightful.
I look forward to meeting her at TransWorld and to see her "Family Friendly" pieces. I will post pictures of what she has on her table. She does some amazing work and the pictures can not do them justice. Can not wait to try them all on with several pictures.
So please check back later. 

Halloween trade show

This entry is a link to several different haunted house and Halloween related companies that supply to all size haunted house owners. These companies have great products and some of the one of a kind items that anyone would want to add to their collection. These companies sell props, animatronics, latex masks, silicone masks, costumes & weapons, and the list goes on and on. It there is something you need to get your haunted house off the ground and ready for business. 

13th Ward FX 
168 Tickets LLC 
46th Dimension Designs
A Corpse Maker
ADJ Group of Companies
Adventure Sports HQ 
Agony, Inc 
Aisle 13 at Pittsburgh Poster 
Allscare.com 
All Seasons Entertainment 
American Changer
American Express Open 
American Made Monster 
Anti-Conjuror Productions 
Apocalypse 
Apparition Studios 
Asylum Coffin Company 
Asylum Props/Fear Buliders
Aurora Optics Company 
Autograph Foliages 
AZ Hand Trucks LLC 
The Basement FX
Bad Jack Productions 
Be Mortis Productions
Beastcraft 
Berg USA 
Berk Concession Supply 
The Best Halloween Store Ever! 
Big Scary Show 
Billy Bob Teeth 
Blackjack Creature Company, LLC 
Black Moth 
Bloodlust Productions, LLC 
The Blood Syringe 
Bloody Mary Bloody Mary Makeup To Die For HANDS ON  Free Workshop, Saturday March 19th where Bobbie aka Bloody Mary will be doing a demo with the class on  How To make a Mummified Zombie Seating is limited. Makeup Kits provided for first 125 makeup artists and model teams. 9 am Class will start. Get there early to get a seat. Bloody Mary will have raffle drawings and winner will be featured in her next upcoming comic book. Prizes for best creations. Visit Bloody Mary

Bobby K Entertainment 
Boneyard Productions International  Boneyard Productions International is a full-service Haunted House and attraction design / construction company. Our staff of engineers, artists and designers have become famous for creating some of the most fantastic Haunted Attractions throughout the world. Let us turn your Haunted Attraction into a World Class Event!

BrainChow Studios 
Brutal Rust 
The Brothers Rich F/X 
BuySeasons, Inc 
C and H Financial Services 
Caledon Virtual 
Cameleon Bodypaint USA 
Card Connect 
Cavallaro Concessions 
Chaotic Creations Fx Studios 
Charactersunlimited.com
Chuckwagon Soda 
Closed Casket Studio 
Commercial Silk International 
Composite Effects 
Copper Leaf Creative 
Cossio Insurance Agency 
Crazy Bobs Talent Search 
Creative Visions Free Introduction to Airbrushing seminar using Iwata airbrushes and European Body Art paints from 10-10:45am on Saturday, room number to be announced soon, all are welcome, but only the first 20 attendees get the hands-on experience.

Creature Revenge Monster Studio 
Creepy Collection 
Crew 13 Productions 
Cross Breed/Haunted Productions 
Custom Metal Works
Cydney Neil 
DAFE 
Dapper Cadaver 
Dare to Scare 
Dark Design Studios
Dark Raven Designs
Dead Rabbit Studios
Decimated Designs 
Demented Design Studios 
Dino Rentos Studios
Distortions Unlimited
Dolls Gone Wrong and The Wicked Lady 
Donat Insurance Services LLC 
Don’t Be A Monster 
EFX-TEK 
Eleglance Vision Corp. 
Engineered Fear 
Entertainment Sciences Group 
Escape Games Unlimited, LLC 
Escape Room Productions 
ETIX Ticketing 
European Body Art 
Evilusions 
Expolanka USA LLC 
Fear Worm Hauntvertising 
Firefly Magic / Spartus Technology LLC 
Fortune Products 
FrightLight LED 
Frightnight Studios, LLC 
Frightprops, LLC 
Froggys Fog 
From Art to Zombies 
FunFlashingLeds.com 
Gantom Lighting & Controls 
The Gemini Company 
Gep Productions Inc 
Ghost Ride Productions 
Gilderfluke & Co 
Global Fear Enterprises 
Global Special Effects 
Glo Cone International 
Gog Paintball 
Gore Galore 
Graftobian Make-Up Co 
Great Room Escape 
Grex Airbrush 
Grignard Company 
Grim Stitch Factory 
Groupon
Happy Feet 
Hauntbots LLC 
Haunt Dawgs 
Haunted Enterprises 
Haunted House Media 
Haunt Holdings 
Haunting FX 
HauntPay 
HauntedProps.com 
HauntersDigest.com / CharlesTerry.com 
Hauntscheduler.com 
Haunt Shirts, LLC 
Haunt Visions 
Hauntworld, Inc. 
High Noon Creations 
Hot Wire Foam Factory 
Ideal Software Systems 
Imaginerick 
Immortal Masks 
Inferno Effects 
Interactive Ticketing 
Jakprints
Jon-Jac, Inc
Jump Pad 
Kosart Effects Studios, LLC 
Krooked Kreations Mask and Effects 
Lanner Design LLC 
Laser Tag Pro 
Legacy 3D FX, LLC 
Licensed 2 Scare 
Lights Alive 
Lil’ Orbits, Inc. 
Little Spider Creations, Inc. 
LiveZombieHunt.com 
Mad Monster Masks 
The MAiZE Inc. 
Master Fog 
MAS Vision Science Studios 
MedTech Wristbands 
Michael Davy Film & TV Make-Up 
Midnight Studios FX 
Midnight Syndicate Soundtrack 
Midwest Haunters Convention 
Minions Web 
Minispotlight.com 
Moneytree ATM 
Morbid Entertainment 
Morris Costumes 
Mystery Escape Room LLC 
NASA Searchlights 
National Ticket Company 
Neal Enterprises
Necrotic Creations.com 
Nevermore Productions 
Nightmare Props, LLC 
Nightscream Studios 
Night Terror Productions 
Oneail Fx Studios 
Outlaw Haunt Productions 
Paasche Airbrush Co. 
Pale Night Productions 
Partymachines.com 
Phantom Finder Haunted Video Booth 
Phobius Haunted House 
Poison Props 
PPG Architectural Coatings 
Premier Glow 
Pumpkin Pulp 
Punchkin 
Puzzle Props Inc. 
Radioboss 
Reynolds Advanced Materials 
Rip City Fx 
Ripper Merchandise/Kreepsville 666 
Robot Costumes USA 
Rose Brand 
Rumplestiltskin Studios 
The ScareFactory 
Scare Products 
Selling Halloween 
Shaffer Distributing 
Shattered FX 
Showoffs Body Art 
Simply Fog 
Sinister FX 
Sinister Signs 
Sinister Visions / Cult of the Great Pumpkin 
Skeletons And More 
Slaughter House Studios 
Spectral Illusions 
The Spooky Hoot 
Spooky Marketing 
Spookyprops.com 
Stagecraft Inc 
Steel Owl 
Studio TEk-FX 
Superfan Suits 
Super Haunt Bros. 
Tandy Leather Company 
Team Kingsley 
Tellermate Inc 
Terrortech 
TicketLeap 
Tippmann Sports LLC 
Tombstone 
Top Haunts / Black Box FX 
The Torture Factory 
Trick or Treat Studios 
Trip Sixx 
Universal Concepts 
Valken Inc. 
Venom VFX 
VEQTOR 
VFX Creative Studios 
Villafane Studios, LLC 
Von Charon Productions Inc 
VueThru 3D
Weldon, Williams & Lick, Inc. 
When Hinges Creak 
Wolfe Face Art & FX 
Woochie by Cinema Secrets 
Worped Studios LLC 
Wristband Resources Inc 
Zagone Studios LLC 
Zombie Army Productions 
Zombie Skin FX LLC 

Transworld

I made it to Transworld for the first time ever. came in on Thursday morning and was in line for the show around 8 or so to wait for the show floor doors to open at 10. No big deal I enjoy getting places on time, I would rather wait on other rather than people waiting on me. But anyway the show was great. I was hoping to get on the internet and post as much information about the show each night afterwards but as of Saturday night, this has been my third hotel. the first hotel had a charge to be able to use wifi so the next morning (Friday), I tried to post at the Center but their wifi was so bad that I just shut wifi off on my photo so I could at least upload pictures to facebook. We then had to switch hotels and the wifi was much better but I had not gotten the time to post anything. so now we are caught up to today.
to start off with I want to post a video that shows you have to be in the right place at the right time to see somethings that people never get to see in person. I am a huge Face-Off fan and there were so many of these talented artist here at the show whether attending or exhibiting their creations or their makeup. I wish I could post more about them.

There were so many great artist out there with their work with them to prove it. I have only just started working in the haunt industry first as an actor now as a room designer, prop building, makeup, and anything else I can create that can generate a scare.

 
 
 
 

Netherworld Haunted House

Picture from their home webpage

I am a huge fan of all things Halloween. I have been to several small haunted attractions and a few large ones. In the large category I have listed Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights this one because of the size and the amount of people that fills up each of the areas even though there are as many as five or so plus you have scare areas. I have been going for the past few years and looking forward to getting back there again this year for the 25th Anniversary celebration. 

The largest single attraction that I have been able attend so far is NETHERWORLD Haunted House in Norcross Georgia just outside of Atlanta. 

It is a huge place with tons of details that you may never get a good look at because you are watching for demons to pop out and scare you. Here is a photo from their website of one of the rooms that you walk through. Everything about this room is perfect. there are movies that are being made today that does not have as much detail that this room has. If you are a haunted house owner you should do everything you can to bring it up to the bar that these people have set. 

Granted you can not have a successful haunted attraction just on room detail alone, you must have characters that come out and brings these rooms to life.So of course one of the biggest haunts have some of the best cast of characters. This is on of the "Grounds" characters that the closer you get the more detail you will see. I invite everyone to get as close as you dare this coming season. 

Taken from their website

 NETHERWORLD has a different theme every year which is incredible. This past year (2014) their theme was witches. In this photo you can see they do not play with Wal-Mart masks and dollar store make up. It is like they went on a search to be these people from their homes and sat them in to the set. Thats how real they look.

Taken from their website

Here is one of the displays that you can get your picture taken at. There are also photographers that will be glad to have you pose with the monsters. 

Ed Edmunds

Taken from Google search

Another day gone and one more day closer to being able to meet all the people I have befriended through Facebook. All the artist that have struggled before me to pave the way for learning on-line the craft that I have been able to enjoy and can't wait to get back to doing. 

This is my first trip to Transworld and I look forward to walking and talking with each group of vendors that attend. One of the people that I hope to be able to talk with is someone I have been a fan of ever sense I saw his show on the travel channel years ago. The show was called "Making Monsters" and has one of the best minds in the business, Marsha Edmunds. She is married to the man that puts all the madness together. He is Ed Edmunds. I watched every episode that came on over and over again. Watching him paint and create not only masks that you may have seen but did not know who created it, but also animatronics that will jump out and scare the poop out of you. 

There are so many creations that have come from the minds of the company of "Distortions Unlimited". I was able to locate the face and "liked" him on Facebook and it seems that he never sleeps. I would hear bell sounds going off on my phone and it would be Ed posting an article or a video to his Facebook page at all hours in the morning. Granted that I live on the East Coast in South Carolina and he lives on the other side of the country so it is expected to some extent that there would be a few come in at 1am or 2am. He only has just under 4,000 friends so he has plenty of room for more.

For those that who have not seen the show or do not know who this is, please crawl out from under the rock and check him out.

I can not say enough about this man, his team, and his company. I have yet to meet any of them and I look forward to meeting them all. If I lived closer, I would have my application filled out and ready to hand them in the hopes that they would hire me. The amount of skill it takes to get out so many different items out on time is immeasurable. I have to get a few nice pictures with them.

Taken from their Facebook

Grim Stitch Factory

Photo from Facebook

My First post leading up to Transworld next week (3/18/15) is dedicated to Grim Stitch Factory.
For those whom have never met the man behind the art they should, as I will be able to do this next week. I first learned about this place while researching on how to make a realist looking skin mask. this was a picture that I found that push me to hassle this guy to tell me how to do it.

For those that think this is gross is only looking at it from the thought that this is real. to some extent it is. There is information on his website that I invite everyone to look at. When I look at his work I see the beauty in the art and what it takes to do it. I have badgered the man too much to find out the process of what is done to get the effect but like a true artist, I was only given hints and elements to some of what it takes to make one but not the process itself. Which is fine because I spent the money buying the items and practiced a few times to duplicate one of these for me to wear in the Haunted House that I work in. I think I was on the right road to being able to get my own started, but I also work 50 hours a week and I am completing my undergrad degree so my thought process was not focused on where I would want it to be which is in the art of creating masks. But this allowed me to appreciate his work that much more. The man behind the masks is just as interesting as his creations. I have included this picture of what he says is his workshop. I looks great and you can get all kinds of inspirations for all things horror related just by looking at the pictures not to mention being immersed in the feel of the room. this picture was also taken from his website Grim Stitch Factory. 

   
My wife doesn't like what I have done with my office because I have started to add things to the surrounding much like his workspace. My wife doesn't like it because that where we sit and watch TV at night and she says it creeps her out. I just see it as a win for me. 

Whether you are in the market for a mask for Halloween, add to a collection, or even if you have been planning on creating a character for a movie, you should start with this guy. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, and on the web.
I look forward to meeting the make behind all these creations at Transworld 2015. 

Countdown to Transworld 2015

As I have posted earlier, I will be traveling to St. Louis Missouri Next Week (3/19/15) for the largest Haunted Attraction industry trade show in the United States. I will also be posting pictures of some of their work and company details and videos. Lots of pictures and videos. I will also will be attending The Darkness to see how they put it all together to be able to scare so many people night after night, year after year. All this will be posted here, my Facebook and Instagram. There will be a variance in each of them so you are not getting the same information from several different sources. There are so many Vendors that will be there are I have met through Facebook that I am excited to be able to meet them in person and get an up-close personal look at their work. 

Facebook Chainsaw Rips

Instagram Chainsaw Rips

Transworld 2015

Transworld is just around the corner and I can not wait.
This is my first trip and I want to see it all. I could even be tricked to wondering down a dark alley just to see something jump out at me.
I will be going to each booth with many questions for not only the haunt I work with but to further my own make-up, mask, and set design creativeness. It is going to be wild and go all night.
I am driving all night Wednesday night to be there when the doors open Thursday morning wrapping up the first day with a trip down to the Darkness.
I work with some of the best people in South Carolina in the MadWorld Haunted Attraction off exit 35 on HWY85. We are looking to get a lot of great products and even more ideas to bring us up to the next level.
I will be posting as much information as I can with plenty of pictures and there may be a few videos.

If there are any booths that you have questions about please let me know before I leave Sunday afternoon, I'll get it for you.

TransWorld's Halloween & Attraction Show

It has been long times sense my last posting. There have been a lot of activity and planning for the upcoming Halloween season. I know it's only the end of January but with me working full time, starting my senior year in college, and planning to attend TransWorld. 

For those of you who don't know what that is, I copied this from their website "TransWorld’s Halloween & Attraction show is the ONLY industry trade show of its kind in the world.  There is no other show that has as many exhibitors and industry related products. For the last 19 years, TransWorld’s annual Halloween & Attractions show has created the market place for the Haunted House industry. Each year the Industry gathers to network, get new ideas and purchase products.  This show is a MUST ATTEND event if you are thinking about opening or currently operate a Haunt, Corn Maze, Farm, Pumpkin Patch, Paint Ball Field, Family Fun Center, Amusement Park, Zoo, Aquarium, Halloween Retail Store or anything Halloween related.  We have everything you need to make your Halloween season a success.   Each year, the show continues to grow with NEW EXHIBITORS, NEW PRODUCT, and more buyers on the show floor. The Halloween & Attractions Show combines the products and knowledge of over 300 exhibitors that you need to see this March! 

I'll be there when the doors open and stay until they kick me out Thursday - Sunday.

I also have a back stage pass to see The Darkness with the lights on to see how they were able to pull off "America's Best Haunted House". 



Stop by and see up dated pictures from the show floor.