Toby Sells is an American special effects make-up

Cosmetics

Cosmetics are substances used to enhance the appearance or odor of the human body. Cosmetics include skin-care creams, lotions, powders, perfumes, lipsticks, fingernail and toe nail polish, eye and facial makeup, towelettes, permanent waves, colored contact lenses, hair colors, hair sprays and...

 artist and make-up effects designer. Sells and his special-effects makeup were featured on the October 30, 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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 series Dirty Jobs

Dirty Jobs

Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show premiered with two pilot episodes in November 2003...

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Sells began making latex monster masks and make-ups at the age of ten. As an adult he moved to Los Angeles. In 2000 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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, starting his own company, Toby Sells Creature Make Up Shop. Sells has worked on numerous films, including Dance of the Dead, The Signal

The Signal (film)

The Signal is an independent psychological horror-comedy film written and directed by David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry and produced by Alexander A. Motlagh—four filmmakers who have been collaborating since 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia...

, Phantasm II

Phantasm II

Phantasm II, also known as Phantasm II: The Ball is Back! is the 1988 sequel to Phantasm. It was written and directed by Don Coscarelli, starring Angus Scrimm, James LeGros and Reggie Bannister...

, Stomp the Yard

Stomp the Yard

Stomp the Yard is a 2007 drama and dance film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers around DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically Black university who pledges...

, Dead Silence

Dead Silence

Dead Silence is a 2007 horror film, directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw...

, Dark Remains, and most recently Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Meet the Browns (film)

Meet the Browns is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film released by Lionsgate on March 21, 2008. The film was based on the play of the same name by Tyler Perry.-Plot:...

and Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

Madea Goes to Jail

Madea Goes to Jail is a 2009 comedy-drama film adaptation written and directed by Tyler Perry, which was based on Perry's 2006 play of the same name. The play and the film deal with Perry's recurring character Madea Simmons going to jail for her uncontrollable anger management problems...

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