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- Rick Baker mentors emerging makeup artists and cautions that artificial intelligence may be a passing fad.
- He assisted Corso in recreating Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video for the film *Michael* and loaned Jackson’s life mask.
- Baker built the suit for the 1976 *King Kong* remake and crafted a Frankenstein mask inspired by Karloff.
- He told a 2019 *WTF* podcast that CGI cannot match his team’s work and expressed skepticism about AI.
