Brian Sipe

Brian Sipe is an Emmy Award-winning makeup and makeup effects artist who worked as an effects technician with Steve Johnson's XFX Group on Star Trek Nemesis. He also worked with Harlow FX on Star Trek, applying prosthetic make-ups designed by Joel Harlow and Neville Page. Sipe also worked on Star Trek Into Darkness. Sipe has been working as a professional make-up artist in film and television since 1989. He is the owner of Gamut Studios, a company which provides services in make-up effects, character design, custom fabrication, and project management. In 2006 he won an Emmy Award as makeup department head on Black. White. In addition to Star Trek Nemesis, Sipe's film work with XFX also includes Suburban Commando (1991, starring Christopher Lloyd), Necronomicon (1993, starring Jeffrey Combs), Lord of Illusions (1995, starring Scott Bakula), and Eraser (1996, starring Vanessa Williams). Sipe's other early make-up projects include work on such films as Addams Family Values (1993), Speed (1994), Tank Girl (1995) and In the Mouth of Madness (1995) and seaQuest DSV. credit: Brian Sipe | Memory Alpha | Fandom