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Grew up in the VERY rural Pond, Missouri. Graduated from Lafayette High School near St. Louis in 1981. As a student, Jim designed and built sets for both Lafayette and Pacific High Schools in the St. Louis area (he would skip school from Lafayette when there weren't any plays going on to work on Pacific High's plays). As a hobby, he made monster movie masks.

Attended CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), in Valencia, CA, from 1981-1983, Studying Art Direction in their school of P.A.D.A.T. (Performing Arts Design and Technology). While at CalArts he learned that he could actually make a living doing his true love - make-up effects (the make-up effects boom of the 80s was just beginning), so set design sort of fell by the wayside (that's his 'normal job' to fall back on).

During the early eighties he worked as a scenic artist on many stage productions, as well as working many jobs on art departments. He also performed a variety of jobs on many rock videos - including making the Quiet Riot Mask (He did the first Quiet Riot video while living in the design loft at CalArts)

From the mid 80s to early 90s he made the specialty props for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera where he got to work with many illustrious designers like; Gunther Schneider-Simpson, Robert Israel, David Hockney, John & Elizabeth Bury (who won a Tony for their design of 'Amadeus'), Maurice Sendak (writer and illustrator of 'Where the Wild Things Are'), and Gerald Scarfe (English political cartoonist who did Pink Floyd'S 'The Wall' album cover).

He currently lives in the mountains near Los Angeles (the closest thing to Missouri in the L.A. area).

Has worked on music videos for Quiet Riot and Rick Springfield.

Ted Nugent (1984) Specialty Costumes, Art Department/ Scenic Painting

Q-Feel (1984) Art Department/ Scenic Painting

Teena Marie - &quot;Lover Girl&quot; (1984) Art Department/ Scenic Painting

Cheap Trick (1984) Art Department, Special Make-up

Sergio Mendez - &quot;Olympia&quot;(1984)Specialty Costumes/Armor, Body Make-up

Michael Sambello - &quot;Automatic Man&quot; (1983) Prosthetic android head

Quiet Riot - &quot;Metal Health&quot; (1983) The Quiet Riot Mask, 200 background &#39;Iron&#39; Masks, Make-up Effects

Quiet Riot - &quot;Cum on Feel the Noise&quot; (1983) The Quiet Riot Mask

Universal Studios Tour - &quot;Star Trek Adventure&quot; (1989) Prosthetic Alien Heads

Universal Studios Tour - &quot;Conan&quot; (1989) Skulls/skeletons, Treasure chest dressing, Armor

Magic Mountain (1982-84) Halloween make-up design and supervision

Music Center Opera Association (Now called the Los Angeles Opera) - Specialty Props/Effects- 1986-199:

Madame X - &quot;High in High School&quot; (1985) Make-up Effects

Motley Crue - &quot;Looks that Kill&quot; (1884) Latex armor, Costume Design

Prince - &quot;Party Man&quot; (1989) 200 Masks, Make-up Supervision

Steve Winwood - &quot;Roll With It&quot; (1988) Special Effects

Aerosmith - &quot;Janie&#39;s got a Gun&quot; (1989) Make-up Effects - Prosthetic body with bullet hole for endoscopic photography (the effects was Censored by MTV)

Lionel Richie (1992) Make-up Effects - &#39;Cracked Earth&#39; body prosthetics

Prince - &quot;Batdance&quot; (1989) Bat masks, Joker Make-ups, Wigs, Tattoos

Coca-Cola (1989) Tortoise puppet to match live tortoise

Mattel - Nintendo (1988) Prop Serpent/Dragon Head

Lockheed - Industrial Film (1986) Mock-up of the Stealth Fighter cock-pit

TOOL - &quot;Parabola&quot; (2002) Make-up Effects (for Screaming Lobster)

TOOL - &quot;Schism&quot; (2001) Miniature Sets (for Screaming Lobster)

TOOL - &quot;Aenema&quot; (1997)Sculpting

Other works

Jim Beinke

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