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Legacy was tasked with the challenge: How do you dress three hundred performers in face-hugging starfish masks in under thirty minutes In Atlanta. And in Panama. With performers that the makeup crew has never met, Shane Mahan breaks it down. "You can't glue the starfish masks on because that takes too long. People need to remove it to take breaks, which was just going to take forever. And there are not 300 makeup artists that are going to help do that." So the Legacy Effects team decided to keep it as simple as possible. The artists built thirty to forty silicone 'hero' masks for the performers closer to the camera, while the background masks were vacuformed. Legacy created a tier system for the starfish masks similar to the ones used in zombie movies for decades. Shane explains, "The closest ones were silicone. And then further back there were hundreds of vacuformed ones that, once you get a certain distance away, they look pretty good." Another challenge posed by the starfish masks was how to secure them to the performers' faces. The team at Legacy kept it simple. "There was a string system attached to the starfish masks," reveals Shane. The strings were different colors to match the performers' hair: blonde, brown, and black. Once they put on the starfish masks, it was just a simple matter of tufting their hair around the strings to hide them. Shane explains how the on set crew worked with the Starfish-masked performers. "We had a team of seven or eight of us that would run around and pull people upfront, switch someone, maintaining the distance of what works. They would all learn how to put on the masks themselves and we would fix them up. And then the starfish eyes were CGI, based on the artwork that we created. That's kind of in a nutshell how those masks worked."

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