Mike McCarty

Board Member

For the past 30 years, Mike D McCarty has worked at some of the top make-up effects companies in the film industry as both an artist and show supervisor. He currently runs and manages Autonomous FX for his longtime friend Jason Collins. Their recent accolades include Westworld, Dead Ringers, Bladerunner 2049, and Pam and Tommy, which won an Emmy and a MUAH Guild Award for makeup. Mike has well over 200 film credits to his name since 1994. Mike is also a writer; his first published short story, The Grieving Process, was bought by the streaming series Creepshow for Season 4, and he was hired to write the screenplay, which recently aired on Shudder and AMC+. He published his first novel, Werewolf Bloodlines: Gemini Rising, through Bad Moon Books. It’s the first in a series he is working on.

CREDITS

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (95) mold-making, painting, puppeteering
THE HAUNTING (99) painting, puppeteering
CABIN FEVER (02) painting, puppeteering
KILL BILL (02) painting, seaming, blood spray rigs
SPY KIDS 3D (03) painting, on set supervisor
HOSTEL PART II (06) painting, on set application, studio supervisor
FINAL DESTINATION 4 (08) painting, on set application, studio and on set supervisor
PIRANHA 3D (09) on set application, studio and on set co-supervisor
MANIAC (11) painting, on set application, studio and on set supervisor
ANNABELLE (14) painting, on set application, studio and on set supervisor
BLADERUNNER 2049 (16) studio supervisor, Autonomous FX
EUPHORIA (19) studio supervisor, Autonomous FX, puppeteering
THE HUNT (20) studio supervisor, Autonomous FX
DEAD RINGERS (22) studio supervisor, Autonomous FX