Interview – Mike Elizalde is a ‘Hellboy’ with makeup effects
By Allyssa Lee, Special to The LA Times  - July 13, 2008
MAKEUP effects pro Mike Elizalde admits he had never heard of “Hellboy” when director  originally approached him about working on his 2004 movie based on the character. “I was not a comic book fan. I never have been,” he says.
But the former Navy man — who started in the movie business in 1987 as a sculptor, makeup artist and painter and struck up a friendship with the director while working on the 2002 vampire flick “Blade II” — says he couldn’t resist the opportunity to work on the outré project.
The sequel, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” which opened Friday, was no less challenging for the Mazatlán, Mexico-born Elizalde, who now operates his own creature design studio, Spectral Motion, in Glendale with his wife, Mary.
