Dan McCloud: Makeup Artist Extraordinare

My brother's best friend Dan McCloud works in the makeup buisness, he does the makeup for our various productions, tv shows, and movies. His work is quite good- and all his creature makeup designs are incredibly realistic. He studies at the same makeup school Rick Baker and Rob Botin used to go to. His idol is fellow makeup artist Rick Baker who is one of the all time greats when it comes to movie makeup. And we like his work too- we thought the work he did on Thriller was brilliant especially the werecat (some say it's a werewolf, but we say it's a werecat) and the zombies, and also the makeup he did for American Werewolf In London was stunning and to this day it still remains as one of the best werewolf movies- the transformation scene was pure gold (there hasn't been a werewolf movie with a transformation THAT good yet, they can try but AWIL's famous transformation scene reins supreme). But probably the best makeup work Rick has ever done is How The Grinch Stole Christmas which is one of all time Jim Carrey movies. The grinch makeup he did was amazing, I mean you couldn't tell it was Jim.



Movies that our friend Dan has done makeup for:

• Biker Mice From Mars (Lawrence Limburger, various plutarkians)


• Leno (Jay Leno, Beyondo, Iron Jay, Evil Jay, Billy Tuttle, Mr Brain)


• I Was A Rockin Weregrinch (Weregrinch)


• Son Of Ash (Ash, Deadites)


• Crimson Chin: The Beginning (Crimson Chin)


• Man-Belushi (werebelushi)


• Beetleborgs the motion picture (Bonesly, Jake, Cleopatra)


• Doizee Club And The Ice Kingdom (the friendly yeti)


• Doizee Club Goes To Mars (martian prince)


• Doizee Club In Dreamworld (the sensitive moose)


• Doizee Club Safari (Africian Bushmen)


• Doizee Club Pirate Adventure (Captain Steele, various pirates)


• Doizee Club Jungle Journey (Tiger guardsman)


• Doizee Club Egpytian Adventure (Pharoah, Pharoah's nephew, various animal gods)


• Doizee Club Fairy Tale Quest (Big not so bad wolf, the giant)


• Doizee Club Dino Hunt (Archeologist Kevin)


• Doizee Club In The Big City (Elvis Presley)

TV shows Dan has done makeup for:

• Teenage WereElvis (Elvis)


• Herodale College (Mr Mimicry, CybertronianMan)


• Animal House Chronicles (various werebelushis)


• GrinchQuest (Various grinches)


• Horror Hotel (various monsters)


• Fantastic Tales (various)


• Time Surfers (various)

Productions of ours he has done makeup for:

• Phantom Of The Opera (Eric)


• Cats (various)


• Rocky Horror (various)


• Beauty And The Beast (Beast, Gaston)


• La Vampira (Dracula, Vincent Vampiro)


• Oliver (various)


• Leno (Jay Leno, Beyondo, Evil Jay, Iron Jay, Mr Brain, Billy Tuttle)


• Annie (various)


• Wizard Of Oz (Scarecrow, Lion, tinman)

Commercials he has done makeup for:

• Heinz green ketchup (Grinch)


• Millitary Koalas action figures (Various)


• Monster Morpher (werewolf, grinch, vampire, deadite, Brundlefly)


• John Candy Tribute Show (John Candy)


• Chumsley's Choco-Hearts cereal (Chumsley)


• Chumsley's Cuddly Crunchies (Chumsley)

His most recent film is our movie adaptation of the first of the Ratchet and Clank video game series. The makeups he does for this film are the main character Ratchet the lombax (played by my brother) and his arch nemesis Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek (played by Tyrone The Terrible's brother Jake). Ratchet is a lombax (he looks like a much taller version of Pikachu) and Drek is a blarg (a race which are sort of like Klingons) with very illuminous blue eyes.

These are the blue schleral contact lenses that Jake DeSoto (that's Tyrone's brother) wears as Chairman Drek in Ratchet and Clank.

We also did a short lived children's show called Chumsley's Clubhouse and yes....that was me in the big fat furry Chumsley the werejohncandy costume.

Be sure to see our latest films which are the Crimson Chin movie starring Sam Leno, the dark comedy the Left Behinders, the fantasy epic Mystic Knights Of Tir Na Nog (based on the tv series by Saban Entertainment), and the action packed sci fi film Ratchet and Clank.