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Woman Creates Horrendously Gruesome And Realistic Flesh Wounds Using SFX Art

Woman Creates Horrendously Gruesome And Realistic Flesh Wounds Using SFX Art

Would you know they weren't real?

George Pavlou

George Pavlou

Have you ever wondered how they make blood and guts look so real on TV shows and in movies?

Well, that's down to some seriously talented people who can produce SFX art to the absolute very highest of standards.

One such person but unfortunately without a job is 20-year-old New Zealander Zoe Armstrong, a self-taught SFX artist looking for her big break.

Judging by the images on her Instagram account, it's hard to see why she hasn't been picked up yet.


Zoe learned everything she knows from YouTube tutorials and practising day-in day-out to become, in my eyes at least, a top SFX artist.

She had been studying at the University of Otago but due to cuts to the department she now might not be able to finish her degree and so has decided to focus her time, effort and money into SFX art.


"I first developed my passion for SFX make-up at high school and I would turn the dirty paint water into gory, rotten looking zombie hands on my own hands," Zoe told TheLADbible.

Before she knew it she was using anything she could find around her house, like golden syrup and cocoa powder, to make fake blood.

She started posting her creations online and was blown away by the feedback and so decided to just carry on doing it.


Zoe added: "When I was offered the chance to do SFX make-up with a professional kit as a job, making gruesome make-up effects for photography, I leaped at the chance."

Her work will be on display in Dunedin, New Zealand, in March next year after three hard years working on it.


Zoe then started her Instagram account which has amassed nearly 6000 followers in just a few months. It's easy to see why.

However, landing her dream job in SFX make-up art has been difficult as she lives in the small town of Dunedin and there isn't much going in that field of work.

She has managed to land a job on an independent film next year but, after that, the pickings are slim.

"I hope that one day I can work on shows like Game of Thrones, Supernatural and anything involving gore, surgery, blood, guts and zombies."

Surely it can't be too long until she's picked up?

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