Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to create prosthetics
- In consultation with relevant personnel and with reference to production documentation, confirm prosthetic requirements
- Identify factors that may affect the casting process, including special requirements for performers
- Use appropriate research techniques to identify and source references to clarify aspects of required effects
- Organise and maintain currency of reference materials, documentation and findings, for use by relevant personnel
- Generate a range of design and construction ideas that provide creative solutions to prosthetic requirements
- Document plans for the creation of prosthetics in an appropriate format
- Discuss plans with relevant personnel and incorporate feedback into final plans as required
- Ensure materials and equipment are available to complete the required prosthetics
- Produce original lifecasts for prosthetic pieces
- Inform performers of the casting process, emergency procedures and respond appropriately to their questions
- Position performers to minimise personal discomfort
- Prepare performer to ensure their skin, hair, facial hair and clothing are protected from hazards
- Determine the position of separate or joining sections, seams, stop lines and keys
- Ensure that materials and release agents are of the appropriate type and quantity for casting, and are prepared, compounded and applied safely using approved methods
- Obtain accurate replication of performers without defects or distortion of lifecasts, ensuring that the safety and wellbeing of the performer is maintained during the casting process
- Safely remove lifecasts and restore performer's skin and hair to original condition
- Finalise lifecasts
- Make prosthetics
- Determine appropriate placement of prosthetic overlaps or blending edges in relation to the performer and the design brief
- Compound, handle, store and dispose of materials according to manufacturer instructions, data safety sheets and health and hygiene requirements
- Use appropriate materials and techniques to make prosthetics according to prosthetics design plans
- Prevent deformation and impairment when separating moulds and rejoining sectional moulds
- Finish, store and remove sculptures and resultant moulds to avoid deterioration, distortion or damage
- Safely store and dispose of materials and equipment used in the creation of prosthetics
- Complete workplace documentation as required
- Evaluate finished prosthetics against technical and creative criteria and note areas for improving the process of creating prosthetics