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Theverge:

From our definitive history of Max Headroom: how make-up and visual effects brought the “digital” celebrity to life.

Max Headroom was ostensibly a computer-generated character, but Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel knew early on that the technology wasn’t there to make that happen. The solution was to place actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up with special contact lenses and a fiberglass suit, light him with a single light source that mimicked the primitive computer graphics of the time, and then shoot him against a blue screen so backgrounds could be added later.

April 4th, 2015 8:17am

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newer Post #115586016373 05 April 2015
this post theverge:From our definitive history of Max Headroom: how make-up and visual effects brought the “digital” celebrity to life.Max Headroom was ostensibly a computer-generated character, but Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel knew early on that the technology wasn’t there to make that happen. The solution was to place actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up with special contact lenses and a fiberglass suit, light him with a single light source that mimicked the primitive computer graphics of the time, and then shoot him against a blue screen so backgrounds could be added later. 04 April 2015
older Post #115436912733 04 April 2015
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newer Twitter post from April 4, 2015, 584417544305410049 04 April 2015
this post theverge:From our definitive history of Max Headroom: how make-up and visual effects brought the “digital” celebrity to life.Max Headroom was ostensibly a computer-generated character, but Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel knew early on that the technology wasn’t there to make that happen. The solution was to place actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make-up with special contact lenses and a fiberglass suit, light him with a single light source that mimicked the primitive computer graphics of the time, and then shoot him against a blue screen so backgrounds could be added later. 04 April 2015
older Twitter post from April 4, 2015, 584179101239386113 04 April 2015