>>Gary Tunnicliffe: Anyone of you is now saying
what's a nurny? I make nurnies all the time and if you come to work for me
and you are a runner I will have you making nurnies. What are nurnies? Well let's find out.
[pause. Hair dryer blowing]
So. Here we have our neck bladder device layers building and here whilst I'm doing it I'm
not making another bladder device. I'm making a nurny. Nurnies are a name in the
industry for little rubber narly kind of things. Very, very useful in zombie movies to put
between wounds for biting apart. You can dress them on creatures; you can dress them in as
gore. Very, very handy thing to have. All you have to do and again, I'm a great
believer in multi-tasking, if you are doing one thing don't sit and wait for something
to dry. There's nothing worse than walking in a shop and someone's sitting there and doing
this. 'What are you doing?' 'I'm waiting for this to dry. It's nearly dry.
Y'know it's like 'Well. Do something else. Sweep up, clean up. I don't care.
Make a nurny. This is a nurny. All I've done here is put some latex here
and now I've got it, I'm going to roll my finger over like this. It's kind of
breaking up the surface, like so. Breaking and breaking and breaking like so. Sticking
it to itself like so. I take a little bit of powder. I'm going to fold it over.
I can roll it a little bit more. This too. That is a nurny.
Now, doesn't look like much in small amount because this is only a small nurny but if
you make big tables of these things, what you end up with is something like that. What
you can see is if you put that between two wounds, two bites or put it in zombie's
mouth but if you put it in my mouth and they pull causes that great breaking effect. See that
looks like skin or cartilage tearing. And it's also good for dressing on things.
You can hang that at the bottom of a piece of neck or if someone's had a wound, hanging
covered in blood it looks like a bit of cartilage or a bit of tissue. Quite often in make-up
effect shops will have boxes of nurnies and they're very handy for dressing on the
edge of a wound or on the end of a neck and what they do is they kind of, they wobble
around beautifully. If you want to see an amazing example of a
nurny, [laughs] where a nurny up-staged an actor? When Rick Baker did the American Wolf
in London make-up on Jack. Jack's character who's all eaten away has a little nurny
on a part of his wound and during the scene the entire thing just keeps on jiggling like
that. I employ go back and watch it. I think Rick Baker talks about it. How it's the
star of the movie. Every time Griffin Dunne moves or talks this little thing goes [wiggly noise]
it becomes fascinating. You can't take your eyes off it. Where a nurny upstages Griffin
Dunne. It's like y'know. So that's how you make those. While you
are making your little device and you are waiting for your latex to set off make yourself
a few nurnies. A few of these in a little zip lock baggy in your make-up effects kit
on set, very, very useful. Always, always incredibly handy. Again, if they are painted
they look very organic. So again, sometimes nice to dress on things. So, there we go.
A handy little 'nurny' lesson.