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| Popular As | Vincent J. Guastini |
| Occupation | Make-Up Department |
| Age | 61 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | October 7, 1963 (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) |
| Birthday | October 7 |
| Town/City | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Vincent J. Guastini’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Vincent J. Guastini was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit enjoy being surrounded by family and friends. They’re popular, compassionate, sincere, and they like to avoid conflict and are sometimes seen as pushovers. Rabbits enjoy home and entertaining at home. Compatible with Goat or Pig.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey he started his own Special Make-up effects company at the age of 22, specializing in prosthetics and creature effects, design, and animatronics.The films that was a big influence on his life were Ray Harryhausen effects epics like, The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts, horror films including The Exorcist, & Night Of The Livng Dead as well as space epics like Star War's, One movie that changed his life forever the film was John Carpenter's remake of Howard Hawks film "The Thing"; the film had an effect that changed Vincent's life the moment he saw it.
Rob Bottin's work on that film and future films like Joe Dante's "The Howling had an effect on Vincent that would forever change what he would do with the rest of his life. He decided he must do creature effects for a living.
Soon after Vincent contacted Oscar winner Dick Smith who also affected Vincent's young growing years scaring him to death as a kid with his work on The Exorcist. After showing Mr. Smith his work and getting Dicks's advice & later his friendship Vincent decided to open up his own studio.
Thanks to Mr.Smith's help and recommendations his company soon grew to become one of the top special makeup effects houses on the east coast,he started working with Mr. Smith under his supervision, doing creatures and special make-up effects for the creature of the week TV series in the late 80s called "Monsters" Vincent was soon collaborating designing supervising and creating effects for top Oscar winning effects artists such as Bob Laden, Nick Dudman & Greg Cannom on the film Stephen King's Thinner.
Vincent's big breakthrough film came in 1991 when asked to take over the prosthetic effects for Michael Mann's epic remake of "The Last Of The Mohicans" for 20th Century Fox. After this film Vincent went on to supervise and design creature effects for various studio and independent films.
Changing his company name from Vincent Guastini Productions to V.G.P. Effects & Design Studio he moved his company to the west coast and is now one of the top effects & design houses.One of Vincent's most challenging projects before moving from the east coast was Darren Aronofsky's film, Requiem for a Dream, in which he had to transform design sculpt and apply with prosthetics changing Ellen Burstyn into a thinning, decaying women throughout the film.
The prosthetic transformation made Vincent an Oscar hopeful that year.He later worked on the newly produced Darren Aronofsky 2016 film "Aftermath" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. where Vincent's team created silicone bodies for a graphic plane crash aftermath.
Other films include creating the groundbreaking animatronic wings and creature effects in Kevin Smiths film "Dogma", Vincent's work was also nominated for his prosthetic work for TV's "Saturday Night Live" Vincent's other credits include either as an effects technician, or supervisor and designer are, Super Mario Bros The Movie, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey,Childs Play 3, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Virus, Man On The Moon and many others.
Vincent has groundbreaking silicone fire victim stunt masks for the for Clint Eastwood's "Letters of Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Father" as well as the highly acclaimed musical fantasy film "The Devils Carnival" and it's sequel and the graphic and highly realistic make-up effects for "Sushi Girl" and the bizarre out of the box creature & make-up effects for the upcoming "V/H/S/ Viral" the third installment to the popular horror franchise.
Other films include the Bryan Singer produced horror film "The Taking of Deborah Logan". Where Vincent with the help of prosthetic silicone appliances and puppets transforms actress Jill Larson into a crazed demonic possessed creature.
Vincent recently garnered producing credits on a few feature films as co-producer and executive producer, one being the remake of "Silent Night Deadly Night",re-titled "Silent Night" "The Employer" Hidden In The Woods" "Rock Paper Dead" Vincent's company also did all the special make-up & animatronic effects for the films.
Vincent has also made his directing debut in two upcoming horror science fiction anthology films, "The Hellevator Man" due for release in 2017 and "The Dark Tapes" which was the number 1 awarded horror movie of 2016.
