On improving the makeup for season 2:
After last season I made up a list of the do's and don'ts of season 2. As I was watching the show, there were a couple of little things I noticed that I was like, "I can improve upon that. I can make it better." No one else in the world would have noticed it except for me and probably Frank [Darabont]. But even Frank… There was one gag we did when Amy gets bit in the neck. We had multiple angles. There was one angle we did that we had to do two or three takes on. Because you know – blood is inherently unpredictable. You never know where the blood's going to go. You just gotta push the syringe and hope that it times out perfectly. If the blood comes too early and it gets on the wardrobe of the zombies before you shoot… There are little things you have to worry about. I'm the worst, because my stomach's in knots before every time we shoot something. But there was a weird wrinkle in the neck in the take that they used in the show. I remember seeing it and going, "Oh…" It drives me crazy, so in my mind I'm thinking, "Okay, next season, how do I avoid something like that?" Then of course I talked to Frank and he said, "Dude, if they're not looking at the neck, there's a problem. They shouldn't be looking over there. They should be looking right at the zombie bite!" So it was funny to have him put it into perspective. We spent a lot of time looking at the make-ups that we thought were very successful, or people talked about more or were more iconic; and using that as our jumping off point for this season. So we sculpted a lot, or added new pieces and a lot of new prosthetics and we have a lot of hero characters.
This show is tonally a little different from last year. Because last year we were in the middle of the city, so a walker could come out from any building anywhere. This year because we've sidetracked to Hershel's farm, much like in the graphic novel, the farm certainly isn't populated with walkers. So there are a couple of episodes where they're not walker heavy, then all of the sudden – boom – in the next one there's sixty or eighty of them.
So I wasn't nervous about it, because I was really proud of what we did last year, and I just always am looking at what we do and thinking about how we can make it better and how we can improve it. That's probably the genre fan in me, the moviegoer that wants to see something different and see something new and go, "Okay, so what are you gonna show me now?" So this is kind of like the sequel to The Walking Dead. The first season was the first movie, this is the second and third movie. I look at them sort of like our little Lord of the Rings movies I guess. [Laughs.]
Source: Full article @ Fearnet
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