He still remembers his first ever creations which he started developing since very young:
In his first year of grade school, he designed and produced his first dress made out from cardboard, crayons as makeup and disposable cleaning rags, all of which happened through six in the morning whilst his parents still slept.
In 1977 he gave specific instructions to her sister Martha to aid him in the production of a Viking dress for his second Grade’s football team mascot.
He grew up under the influences of Ray Harryhausen’s fantastic creatures, creator of such like King Kong (1930), Jason and the Argonauts (1957), Clash of the Titans (1980), and other films in which the main roles were played by special effects and makeup like in: Alfred Hitchcock’s The birds (1963), Planet of the Apes (1968), Time Machine (1960) and all of the SANTO films besides all those of Ultraman. These no doubt confirmed what for Siller is now his true passion as “They were the strongest influence of my childhood that ever since have designated and sealed my destiny as a “creature designer”.
He also remembers most vividly the Dick Smith’s horror make-up kit his parents once bought for him in Plaza Satelite.
Jorge Siller has polished his 17 year-long career as a make-up artist by participating in numerous short films, motion films, documental and television series besides taking part in the production team of diverse national and international television adverts.
His work and talent have also been reflected in both local and foreign realizations. He has worked beside many important directors amongst which Simon Bross, Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cassals, Raul Olvera, Gerardo Tort, Enrique Berñe, Roberto Aguilera and Rodrigo García highlight the list of talented Mexican directors as well as foreign such as Russell Mulcahy, Paul W.S. Anderson, Jared Hess, Mariano Barroso, Gustavo Garzon , Jason Hreno and Alex de la Iglesia .
Moreover, he has had the opportunity to work with important special-effects designers like Patrick Tatopoulos in Resident Evil: The extinction (2007), with Peter M. Chesney in Conan the Adventurer (1998) besides having had the pleasure to collaborate with two-time Oscar winner John Stears, for Tunder Ball (1966) and Star Wars (1978), in the film-set of The Mask of Zorro (1998).
During all of his career years, Jorge has evolved as a leader in the design of special effects and make-up art in Mexico. He is a master amongst those in his branch as he is fortunate enough to possess a gift for imagination, visualization and quickly develop ideas in his mind of how he will carry out the sfx at the very moment he is reading a script or talking to a director. He is therefore capable of achieving a great level of communication and empathy with the directors when they share the same spoken visual language, guaranteeing a success in the realization of a sfx, scoring within the trust and recognition from his clients.
What is more, Jorge has also a great capacity for leadership, creating then talented, professional and fun working teams, where he expects nothing else than that everyone gives the best out of him or herself.
Jorge is a passionate of his job, always in the constant search for new perfection. He is always experimenting with new materials and techniques that have permitted him to remain innovative, inventive, create and be in a constant growth within the technical and aesthetical.
He knows how to find the answer to each challenge every new proyect presents to him: “I sell creativity and solutions”.