Carlos Henriques & Ryan Louagie
Ryan Gerard Louagie (Right) [IMDB Profile] born February 20th, 1982, grew up in Chatham-Kent, a small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
From before he even started school, Ryan took to crayons as birds do to flight. In grade one, Ryan’s teacher called him and his parents into a meeting to discuss the strange drawings he doodled throughout class. Eyeballs with wings and monster hiding in closets were just a few of the images, sketched in pencil from the boy’s warped imagination.
A few years later, Ryan took art lessons and learned how to sketch/draw using pencils and ink. Since then, his fascination with art, horror, monsters, death, and fashion, combined with a life-time worth of experience of drawing, painting, sculpting, writing, has made Ryan one of the masters of Macabre to this date.
In 2001, Ryan attended one of the world’s leading schools for professional make-up artistry. Ryan now lives in Toronto, Canada, as a professional Special Effects Make-up Artist who specializes in Film, TV, Fashion, Prosthetics, Props and Animatronics. He is also an aspiring writer/film director. After taking courses in writing, directing, and producing, Ryan finished top of his class with an A+ average. Ryan has successfully completed six short films that have been featured in various film festivals around the world. Among the many projects currently in the works, Ryan has three feature scripts, which are in different stages of development. His main life goal and focus is to someday take Hollywood by storm and share with the world his cutting-edge visions that stem from his cynical yet strangely beautiful mind.
You can see his work on such shows as, “Death Race”, “Left for Dead”, “Evil Dead: The Musical”, “Nana Lan’”, “Mr. Meaty”, “Monster Warriors”, and “Big & Small”, just to name a few.
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Carlos Henriques (Left) [IMDB Profile] has been a successful Special Effects Make-up Artist for over 10 years. His award-winning photorealistic effects work can be seen in many of today’s Hollywood blockbusters, television series and haunted attractions.
His love for monsters began at a very early age. As a young boy, he was lucky enough to catch a midnight screening of “George A. Romero’s Creepshow”, and soon after, the premiere of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. He immediately became consumed with all things scary, scouring the earth for what little information there was available at the time. In a few years’ time, his bedroom became a museum of the macabre, crammed with posters, books, magazines, masks and props — not for the squeamish.
Ten years later Carlos attended one of the world’s most prestigious special effects make-up schools and perfected skills in life-casting, prosthetics, creating molds and running product (silicones, foam latex, urethanes, resins, etc…).
With many years in the film industry, Carlos has worked on over 40 projects featuring creature suits (Bottom Feeder starring Tom Sizemore); casualty make-up (Left for Dead starring Danielle Harris and Shawn Roberts); gore (Silent but Deadly starring Jason Mewes and William Sadler) prop-building (Death Race starring Jason Statham); and puppet-building (Celebrity Deathmatch / A Miser Brothers’ Christmas featuring Mickey Rooney). His most recent film projects include Red: Werewolf Hunter starring Felicia Day and Gretl starring Shannon Doherty, in which he served as the special effects make-up designer and supervisor.
Every fall, you will find Carlos busy working on his own haunted attraction The Horrorshow, which has gained the title of Hamilton, Ontario’s scariest haunted house.
Carlos is presently working for Cuppa Coffee studios, the largest stop-motion studio in North America. He continues working in film, as well as running The Butcher Shop.