This site shows his personal interest in creating Fine Art designs through the use of figurative body casting.  Below is a newspaper article discussing Jim's experience for a short history reference.

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When last we encountered movie make-up artist Jim Spinner in the pages of The Pantagraph, circa 1988, the Illinois State University art school alum had recently:

• Sliced a man in half with a combine and dismembered  another via a train in "Born To Lose"
• Removed the appendix of a serial-killer victim in "Jacks Back"
• Given the title character in "Manic Cop" a "Phantom of the Opera" facial make over --all acid scars, bloody gashes, and smashed bones.
• And for good measure, incinerated the bones of Freddy   Kruger's victims in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3."

How ... nice?
Spinner didn't administer any of this highly unpleasant trauma with malicious intent, understand . Far from it---he was merely doing his creative duty as the make-up effects man on these, and other, low budget horror films of the late 1980's.

Fifteen years and dozens of film assignments later including blockbusters like " Planet of the Apes", and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"--Spinner still is happily ensconced in Hollywood.

Lately, he 's been busy with less forensic, more mainstream details--such as,  working on the memorably distended green fingers for Jim  Carrey's The Grinch, or the dozens of background simian masks for Tim Burtons monkey planet.

He's still happily applying the artistic touches he honed at ISU. Spinner has recently applied those touches on the effects of --"Team America: world Police," the all marionette comedy from the South Park guys Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

While spinner did not have a hand in the movies marionettes, so to speak, he had a hand in the puppets ' built to scale  environment. That includes a series of exotic and marks on view during a key episode in Cairo involving Pyramids, sphinxes, and temple statuary-all of it destined to be blown to smithereens in the course of the comedic action.

Whatever, this decidedly off beat project has merely proven to be another extension of his creativity. Spinner is a sculptor, and a make-up special effects man-he really has a double bag of tricks for movies. Jim is a prolific sculptor, a master sculptor.

Because those sculpting talents can be aimed in several directions-from creating facial /body prosthetics to molding the Pyramids of Egypt-his talent is  one-stop-shopping!

Beverly Hills Cop111 (1994)
Cylon robot construction

Honey, I shrunk the kids (1989)
Giant insect molds

How the Grinch stole
Christmas(2000)
created the Grinch's fingers  and feet, oversaw the creation of over 3,200 sets of ears for the denizens of Whoville

A Nightmare ON Elm Street 3: Dream warriors (1987):
Incinerated  bones of Freddy Kruger's victims

Nutty Professor 11: The Klumps (2000):
Giant Hamster Monster

The River Wild (1994):
Dog dummy; Stunt dummy doubles for all principal actors

Planet of the Apes (2001):
Tim Burton's remake, oversaw creation of all  background ape masks and  hands /fingers,  gloves for gorillas and chimps.

Maniac Cop (1988)
Horribly disfigured face of title character

Star trek VI: The undiscovered   
Country (1991)
Rig ventilation, for Klingon Warriors