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My name is Alan up own.

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I'm the the company is makeup and effects Laboratories

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or ml which is

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what we call it

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and

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I'm the CEO and founder

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of the company

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we first got associated with Star Trek

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during the second season

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of

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Next Generation.

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I believe it was the Borg episodes because we

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created all the

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original

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Components

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for the

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for the boards for the show

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and from there because I had a relationship

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as a makeup artist with Michael Westmore

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and Michael knew that

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I had in

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stock

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a lot of different molds

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for

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robots and

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things

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so he asked what we had to put together.

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So we put together a bunch of stuff for

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him

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for the makeups and then

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the costume Department saw

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what Michael had and

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came over.

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Over and said well, what else do you have?

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So we ended up collaborating with them

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and creating the Borg suits

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the most challenging thing that we had to do

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for Star Trek

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was actually a borg suit for

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seven and nine

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because they wanted something that was

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form-fitting

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for her for Jeri Ryan,

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but yet allowed her to move.

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And

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had to be sexy yet menacing,

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you know the whole bit exactly the way she

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looks when you see her in her full board

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outfit

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there were restrictions.

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I mean,

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she was restricted a lot in her movements

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just by what

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was called out for

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so he tried to make it as flexible as

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possible and to do so

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a lot of the suit was

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not sculpted.

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It was actually handcrafted

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onto a body form

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that we took of her.

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So we took a body form of her and

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undersuit that she was going to wear

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and then handcrafted all the pieces

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to that suit.

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And we had only a couple of weeks in

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which to do that.

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So when

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the seven and nine came, we sort of had

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an idea,

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you know the movement of the board

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except for in this case.

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They wanted somebody to be very

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very cute and attractive and not not the massive

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flat layering of the board.

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So

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our

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objective was to create a board but not a

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board.

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I mean a board but a

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Beautiful bargain and The Borges are not cute.

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Once we did a body cast ever.

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We didn't have much time to do any sculpting.

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So

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what we did was we tried to be a

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little more creative and

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which speed sort of makes you do that sometimes

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so we took neoprene and

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and

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we created the fold-over

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sections which are the Borg

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we still had to deal with

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the

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sections in between where

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Typically, it would be sculpted.

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And since we didn't have any time what we

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did was we experimented with a lot of materials

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and ended up with

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the secret

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black silicone caulking

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and as we would squirt it on there.

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We just take a palette knife and kind of

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work it in to

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create that kind of organic shape

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and in that it turned out perfect because we

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could add all our little

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we call this industry do does

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which gives texture to the body

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but it turned out really well.

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I mean fit her like a glove

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It was amazing

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in the

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breast area.

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It was really kind of tricky because

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they really wanted it to conform to her body.

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And

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And yet when you stretch rubber across anything

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it wants to pull across.

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So what we did was

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we took a vacuum form

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created by plastic and put it around

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the form of the body

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so that we had an inside shape and then

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we glued to that so it was like push

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pull the Rubber and

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and

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it turned out really well.

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For doing something like that and then we still

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had to run all our wires because we had

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the little LEDs to

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to Blink and do do the stuff that Borges

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do

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over all week and a half of

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a whole lot of fun and sweat,

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but it turned out good.