If you have always wanted to become a make-up FX artist and you're dedicated to learning the most you can where ever you may be, The Dick Smith Courses are for you.

About the Advanced Course...

700 pages of illustrated text in 19 lessons and 7 updates.

A color booklet with 80 photos to illustrate various make-ups and techniques.

A fat packet of black & white reference photos for character sculpture.

A DVD of Dick Smith’s application of his Abraham Lincoln makeup.

A year and a half of professional instruction and help via e-mail.

You can obtain the Advanced Professional Make-up Course only at dicksmithmake-up.com

*Remember that you cannot purchase The Advanced Course until you have been accepted by Dick.

The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is celebrating his legacy with a free exhibition, “The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen,” at the academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery through Aug. 22. The exhibition features original models, drawings, storyboards and behind-the-scenes footage from his various films. Sony Picture Entertainment is also celebrating his birthday with the Blu-ray release of 1963’s “Jason and the Argonauts,” which includes the famed skeleton army that fights the heroes with swords.