User:Brian Sipe

Brian Sipe - Specialty Makeup Effects Artist

Emmy® award winning makeup artist Brian Sipe has been working professionally since 1989 as both a freelance artist and through his company, Gamut Studios. Several major Hollywood makeup effects companies and production studios have taken advantage of his extensive knowledge and experience as a character effects designer and project manager.

The scope of his artistry can be seen in both film and television projects such as Syriana, Ali, Son of the Mask, Big Momma's House 1 and 2, VanHelsing, The Passion of the Christ, Friends, Will and Grace and many others. His groundbreaking makeup design for the FX Network’s reality television show "Black. White." personally garnered him an Emmy Award in 2006.

Brian has just recently wrapped principal photography on David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, as well as JJ Abrams' addition to the Star Trek franchise, Terminator : Salvation, and the latest installment of the Twilight Series....Breaking Dawn.