From creating fanta:;tical creatures for the sci-fi television series Farscape to his plant-wrangling skills for The Little • • Shop of Horrors , Dave Elsey has demonstrated an extraor- •
• dinary ability to create memorable characters using makeup
and animatronics over the past 20 years. To many, Dave's resume reads like a cult-film dream list: He created creature • effects in Alien 3; worked as a special makeup-effects artist• on Hellraiser, Mission: Impossible, Ml 2, and lpdiana Jones and the Last Crusade; and honed his aniniatronics skills in the cult classic, The Little Shop of Horrors. He is perhaps .. most well known by genre fans for his role as the• creative supervisor on the sci-fi TV series Farscape, for which he . designed and maintained up to 600 different creatures.
For his role as the Creature Shop Supervisor for Star
. Wars: Episode Ill, Revenge of the Sith (tot which he was nominated for. an Academy Award), Dave and his makeup . effects team were responsible for bringing to life all the animatronics, prosthetic creatures, and characters seen in the film. Dave was at the forefront of the Cre.att.ire Shop
team responsible for such Episode •m creations . as the •
Wookies; the Utapauns, charred Anakin Skywalker, and the twisted Emperor Palpatine.