Rain Factor FX

nRAIN FACTOR FX is a featured artist at Sinister Creature Con 2026!

RAIN FACTOR FX is a featured artist at Sinister Halloween Con 2025!
Rain is a self-taught SFX makeup and practical effects artist living in Northern California. She started working in the haunted house industry in 2013 where she was able to hone her skills as a makeup artist, set designer and prop maker. In 2017, Rain started working in film. Since then she has worked for notable clients such as Toyota, Excision, Slander and the Leland Stanford Mansion. While Rain is skilled in basic corrective and beauty her true passion lies with anything bloody, creepy and fantastical.

In her free time she creates curious creations and functional art pieces. Regarding her art she has said she is inspired by folk tales and fantasy creatures. Her art prominently features ethically sourced bones, body horror and lots and lots of teeth.

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Saturn and I met years ago through the haunt. Since then, I have watched them over social media grow into a fantastic artist and, more importantly, someone who is so unapologetically themselves. They even have a fantastic short film out on YouTube which I highly recommend watching. Saturn, thank you for agreeing to model for me. I really love the way you helped shape this concept and embody this ethereal being.

I thought I was making a siren from Greek folklore but as each puzzle piece fell into place and the picture began to take form I realized that this was a Sirena. Sometimes a project tells you what it wants to be.
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There are times when your project tells you what it wants to be. I remember taking a ceramics sculpture class fresh out of high school. I was struggling to get the clay to take the shape I wanted and my professor roughly guided my hands to manipulate the clay. It no longer felt like a conversation and I felt detached from the piece. I never liked the way it felt to force something to my will. For me, the process of creating is a communal and collaborative experience, even if it's just between me and whatever medium I am working in. When you allow the pieces to fall into place it takes on new meaning and your relationship to it changes.

I have wanted to make a siren-like creature for some time but I didn’t know I wanted to make it for this event. I knew I needed to commit to another model and a look but I just wasn’t feeling it. I hadn’t been to a con in a year and I wasn’t sure how I wanted to make my grand reappearance. As luck would have it, my friend was going to be in town for SCC and I felt really inspired by them. Another piece sliding into place.

I wanted to explore the relationship between the maiden, the mother, and crone archetypes as a siren might experience that loss of relevancy and desirability while in direct competition with technology in the modern era. My moodboards for this look referenced old circus looks. I liked the parallels between a once beloved and popular place now locked up, quiet, and in a state of arrested decay.

Please enjoy this sneak peek as I once again present you with another piece that asks, “who am I? What is my place? Where do I belong?”

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Event: Sinister Creature Con
Photoshoot location: Heartstoppers Haunted House
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Come visit me at Sinister Creature Con on the 18th & 19th.

RAIN FACTOR FX is a featured artist at Sinister Halloween Con 2025!

Rain is a self-taught SFX makeup and practical effects artist living in Northern California. She started working in the haunted house industry in 2013 where she was able to hone her skills as a makeup artist, set designer and prop maker. In 2017, Rain started working in film. Since then she has worked for notable clients such as Toyota, Excision, Slander and the Leland Stanford Mansion. While Rain is skilled in basic corrective and beauty her true passion lies with anything bloody, creepy and fantastical.

In her free time she creates curious creations and functional art pieces. Regarding her art she has said she is inspired by folk tales and fantasy creatures. Her art prominently features ethically sourced bones, body horror and lots and lots of teeth.

Welcome Rain Factor FX back after a short SINCC/HC hiatus this October 17th & 18th!

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