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13FingerFX is a practical effects studio built around Dan Martin and producer Jen Handorf, working with production companies, directors and producers across film, television and commercials. The studio isn’t a public-facing service. If you’re a production looking to discuss a project, or an artist hoping to work with us, get in touch through the Contact page.
13FingerFX’s collaborators include Brandon Cronenberg, Ben Wheatley, Peter Strickland, Harmony Korine, Jonas Åkerlund and Nia DaCosta, directors whose work has been described in outlets like Variety and the Guardian as bold, genre-bending and visually distinctive. On Possessor, Cronenberg has spoken about building the film’s practical hallucination effects through lenses, fluids and makeup work, and named Dan directly as the effects artist behind them.
Dan draws on the traditions of stage magic and a hands-on knowledge of materials and mechanics alongside newer digital tools, treating every effect as a problem to solve on its own terms.
Jen Handorf is the studio’s creative producer, running projects from first conversation through to delivery on set. She’s also an award-winning producer and director in her own right, with credits including the Student Academy Award-winning short Pop Foul and the features The Borderlands (also released as Final Prayer) and Prevenge. The Borderlands drew public praise from Guillermo del Toro, and the Guardian called Prevenge “audacious horror” with “experimental creativity” and “anarchic allure.”
Dan and Jen work with a network of both established and emerging artists, choosing the right combination of skills for each job rather than running one fixed workflow. That might mean pairing digital scanning and 3D printing with mechanical effects and illusion techniques that pre-date cinema itself, whatever gets the effect on screen and off the audience’s radar.
Any 3D makeup designed to modify the appearance of a performer, usually an every-day makeup. These can range from large undertakings such as look-alike makeups and age makeups to smaller, detailed skin modifications such as acne and scars.
Similar to character prosthetics but more focused on injury. Any cut, scrape or wound will be represented by this type of prosthetic makeup.
Prosthetics and suits worn by a performer, incorporating mechanical aspects as well as prosthetics where needed. Also covers creatures that can’t be performed by a person in a suit at all, including artificial animal carcasses or body parts built from scratch.
Human limbs, severed heads, full bodies, simulated cadavers and stunt dummies for scenes too dangerous for living stunt performers.
Non-biological builds where an action or behaviour isn’t available off the shelf, or the build is too complex for a regular props department. Also covers safety-focused versions for stunt performers, such as soft or fire-proof variants and custom breakaway props.
Bloodlines, missing limbs, exploding heads and other in-camera moments that need to seem impossible.