Mark Coulier Mark Coulier is a British make - up artist and special effects designer who worked in . Coulier began his career at the end of the 1980s , working as a special makeup technician for " Hellbound " , the first sequel to his popular " Hellraiser " horror saga . During the first half of the 1990s , Coulier worked mainly in horror and science - fiction movies : He was one of those responsible for the creature effects on " Alien³ " ( BAFTA Award as a part of the team ) , plus he worked as the makeup special effects senior artist on another of Clive Barker ' s movies , " Candyman " . He was also a makeup effect designer or assistant in three movies about Frankenstein : " Waxwork II : Lost in Time " ( 1992 , Anthony Hickox ) , where the main characters travel through time and meet the doctor , and two adaptations of Mary W . Shelley ' s novel : David Wickes ' 1992 one , starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid as the doctor and his creature ( another BAFTA Award as a part of the team plus a Cable Ace Awards nomination ) ; and Kenneth Branagh ' s 1994 one , with Branagh himself as Frankenstein and Robert DeNiro , under Coulier ' s and others ' makeup , as the monster . Then , he began working with Jim Henson ' s Creature Shop , the same place from which Frank Oz came , with " Babe " . He founded Coulier Creatures , Ltd . in London in 1996 , and the company won him an Emmy Award on 1997 . Coulier returned to horror with spectacular " Event Horizon " ( 1997 ) , replacing Sam Neill ' s eyes with empty sockets . He would work with Neill again the following year in TV movie " Merlin " ( Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries ) . He worked on TV again on 1999 with Nick Willing ' s " Alice in Wonderland " , starring Tina Majorino as Alice plus an all - star ensemble cast that should resemble completely different characters ( Particularly the Mad Hatter , Martin Short , gave him another Emmy Award ) . On 1999 , he also worked in spectacular " The Mummy " , another classic Universal Monster brought to fame by Boris Karloff . This time , Coulier was experienced enough to be one of the key animatronic model designers , alongside with Chris Barton and Michelle Taylor . This is a role he reprised , that same year , in . At the same time , he had to work in a role he was not accustomed to : An actor . After creating Malastare senator , the three - eyed Aks Moe , he was supposed to play that role in the Senate scenes ! He had not to worry about his voice ; professional voice actor Marc Silk would be dubbed over him . This is a politics that George Lucas had been using since 1997 , when he took Rick Baker and placed him under his own creatures . He was awarded with the Online Film and Television Association Awards and nominated for the Online Motion Picture Academy Awards . Coulier continued his career only as a makeup designer , apparently not interested in more acting jobs . On 2000 , he created effects for two TV movies , including " Arabian Nights " ( John Leguizamo , Jason Scott Lee . . . ) , for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries , and " Jason and the Argonauts " ( Dennis Hopper , Frank Langella . . . ) , nominated to that same Emmy . He also was in Leonardo DiCaprio ' s blockbuster " The Beach " . On 2001 , he would work as prosthetic makeup artist in both crime drama " Another Life " and in the sequel " The Mummy Returns " ( being the only prosthetic makeup artist of that movie ) . He would also be the head of the make - up unit in another movie , the popular " Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ' s Stone " , beginning of the saga , which was nominated to the best Saturn Award . Satisfied with his previous work , Coulier would be summoned again for the sequel of this movie : He was one of the animatronic model designers for " Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets " . This work was nominated for the Academy of Science Fiction , Fantasy & Horror Awards . On this same 2002 year , Coulier also worked on TV , becoming the make - up designer for the caveman and main star of the movie " Stig of the Dump " . Besides , he also worked as prosthetic make - up artist for . Coulier worked on science fiction again as make - up effects artist on the mini series " Children of Dune " ( 2003 ) , as well as in the crime movie about computer geeks " 3 Blind Mice " . On 2004 , Coulier returned to the Harry Potter saga for its third installment , " Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban " , being one of the key animatronic model designers alongside Val Jones - Mendosa , Tacy Kneale , Paul Spateri and Guy Stevens . Coulier is also a Visiting specialist lecturer on prosthetic make - up , and attends to conventions where he signs and speaks about his work .