"I am also personally addicted to watching the TV show How It's Made. Each episode having numerous factory or handmade products from start-to-finish in extremely detailed steps. I just know at some point I'm going to learn something that is going to lend itself to the work at hand."

Nick Dudman has turned his monstrous talents to Penny Dreadful in Showtime/Sky's Victorian-era drama series in which vampires and werewolves rub metaphorical elbows with Dorian Gray and Frankenstein's monster. Nick discusses enjoyable tricks and ways of functioning which he had forgotten when working on the bigger sets.

Danny's used 45% acrylic paint, 45% Pros-Aide and 10% water for the creation her of PAX paints. "PAX paint can be hard to work with as they dry and become tacky. I stippled my first layer creating a base and then used a brush to paint in the rest."

Polar Bear! It was the centrepiece of a promotional campaign for Sky Atlantic's 'Arctic-noir' series Fortitude, and was the work of Millennium FX. In total the bear took four weeks to make, with up to eight people working on it an any time and over 60 types of materials used in the process.

In recent years, the ADI co-founders (Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.) have continued to evolve and adapt to the changing market, and as the company its next 25 years, they plan to develop even more of the projects they want to see.

Portfolio Surgery. Steven says "I received some great portfolio advice from Cliff Wallace at last year's Prosthetics Event. He told me to include sculpting, moulding, casting and application to demonstrate the work in process, as well as including the final beauty shot." Portfolio Surgery is a one-on-one consultation with a high-level industry practitioner about how to present your portfolio for job hunting and interviews!

EffectUs! With feature film credits including Ben Hur, Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men First Class, we hope you enjoy this tutorial from Valentina, taking you through the steps of Cleaning, Sealing the Surface, Painting and Final Seal.

Tattoo artist. Vincent says "It's such an inspiring mage for me, and I always thought it would make a fantastic prosthetic make-up. So I finally decided to go for it and emailed Carlos to see if he would be ok with me recreating this work in a realised version."

"If you're starting from scratch, create your initial palette with the primary colors yellow, blue and red. White and black are optional, but also quite helpful to lighted or darken your color."

"I include a brush in the list, because I use it a lot when I am starting to smooth the surface with a solvent or just with the brush. It's a flat, cheap brush, 1cm wide. I also use this in the texturing process."