Rob Bottin

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1. First role

   At 14, Bottin mailed an autograph request with an intricate drawing to Rick Baker, a well-known special make-up effects artist. Baker invited him to talk about monsters and later offered him an apprenticeship on films, including the Star Wars Cantina scene creatures.

2. Big break

   Bottin got his first big solo break on The Howling when Rick Baker's schedule was busy with another production, and his man-to-werewolf transformation appeared five months before Baker's similar scene in An American Werewolf in London.

3. Big break

   Rob Bottin got cinematographer Dean Cundey to make the introduction to director John Carpenter, and Carpenter then gave him the job of creating the special makeup effects for The Fog in 1980. Bottin also played Captain Blake in that film.

4. Behind the award

   For Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop, Bottin created and constructed the title character's suit. His special effects work on Verhoeven's Total Recall brought him a Special Achievement Academy Award.

5. A change of course

   Bottin is thought to have left the industry in 2002 as filmmakers turned to CGI for action and horror, though he came back briefly in 2014 to handle practical work on Game of Thrones.