Born in 1982, PEE Dae-sung is a special effect makeup and prosthetics artist. Although he was already interested in costume design for cinema, it was while studying at a professional school that he decided to specialize in special effect makeup and its capacity to ground a story in reality. After graduation, he joined Technical Art Studio Cell. There, his job was not limited to silicon masks and prosthetics, but also included props that needed be modelled and produced specifi...More

Born in 1982, PEE Dae-sung is a special effect makeup and prosthetics artist. Although he was already interested in costume design for cinema, it was while studying at a professional school that he decided to specialize in special effect makeup and its capacity to ground a story in reality. After graduation, he joined Technical Art Studio Cell. There, his job was not limited to silicon masks and prosthetics, but also included props that needed be modelled and produced specifically for the film, such as fake corpses and dummies, and sometimes even engaged in animatronics. PEE received his first credit for his contribution to the horror film <Black House> (2007). After working with the most celebrated genre filmmakers in Korea, such as NA Hong-jin on <The Chaser> (2008), KIM Jee-woon on <The Good, the Bad, and the Weird> (2008) and PARK Chan-wook on <Thirst> (2009), he was promoted chief special effect makeup designer in 2010. He served in that capacity for KIM’s gruesome vengeance action <I Saw The Devil> (2010), NA’s thriller <The Yellow Sea> (2010), the epidemic drama <Deranged> (2012), the pulp caper film <The Thieves> (2012), the award-winning court intrigue <Masquerade> (2012), the crime thriller <New World> (2012), the gorilla-led baseball film <Mr. Go> (2012), and the epic biopic <Ode to My Father> (2014). In 2019, he won the Technical Award at the Chunsa Film Festival for his work on the period zombie film <Rampant> (2018), having notably designed the peculiar look of these Joseon-era zombies.Less