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A movie is rapidly growing owing to the flow in the times and the development in scientific technology. The popularly spreading ability is emerging as a leading role in the general cultural activities through diverse visual content industries as various cultural genres. Especially, modern people's emotion is being reflected in diverse aspects. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to analyze the aesthetic characteristics of the character make-up by selecting 6 movies in which actor Johnny Depp appeared among the movies by Tim Burton, who is suggesting filmic material and aesthetic characteristic in postmodernism. As a result of this study, the aesthetic characteristics of the Johnny Depp character make-up, which was shown in Tim Burton's movie, are the typical features of postmodernism that was shown the avant-garde, experimental, creative and originative diversity. First, androgyny, mixture and combination in a character were definitely indicated because of having been shown a hybrid with the genre-deconstruction trend in make-up that was mixed with the de-centering phenomenon, which reflects the public tendency and sociality. Second, grotesque, which was reflected deconstruction and popularization, was shown, thereby having been analyzed the characteristics in the aspects of aggression, decadence and inhumanity in grotesque, kitsch in playfulness, and kidult make-up tendency. Finally, surrealism, which was reflected the characteristics in polycentrism and de-centering phenomenon, was shown, thereby having been indicated fantastic, fanciful, unrealistic, non-popular, surrealism as the character make-up. Hence, the aesthetic characteristics in the Johnny Depp character make-up, which was shown in Tim Burton's movie, were analyzed the aesthetic characteristics in hybrid, grotesque, and surrealism that were reflected the typical aesthetic characteristics in postmodernism, and could be confirmed artistic value, which offers a creative filmic motive by analyzing and imprinting a character in a movie with a new vision. Therefore, a relevant academic research is expected to be carried out much more to be utilized as basic data available for further developing the artistic foundation in the character make-up at this point of time that the importance of character make-up in a movie is emphasized and that the weight of artistic, popular and cultural value in character make-up is gradually getting higher.