With THE NIGHT HOUSE on HBO Max I thought it’d be fun to go through some of the movie magic involved with designing the entity that shows up throughout.
With pretty much all of these, I used a mannequin for reference, and roughed-in shapes using lots of foam core and large sheets of newsprint that I would cut up. I also had a camera set-up feeding to my iPad that I’d use as a monitor so I could see what the hell I was doing.
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TALES FROM THE CRYPT Seas. 1 Ep.1
"The Man Who Was Death"
I was supremely inspired by the ranked list of episodes put together by
@slimyswampghost
and I'll be posting all Tales from the Crypt all month🎃
All of this was trial and error to see what would even work within the scene. I knew from David Bruckner what the general shot and blocking would be, and the challenge was to figure out a forced-perspective negative space man that would form out of a confluence of edges.
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So proud of how this book has come together, excited for you all to read it!
Sort of an okay idea, but it wasn’t really working with the depth enough. Not to mention I'd need to be able to experiment with lighting at night, and I just didn't have access to that because they were using them to make the actual movie :)
Talking through it with David, we hit on the idea that it needed to be connected to the door that led downstairs, and that’s when we started thinking of frosted window treatments.
Happy NCBD! Issue 5 is in shops and waiting in all is bizarre glory for you to pick it up and read through.
Huge THANK YOU to everyone who has given this book a shot ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hi, hello there :) Have you had a look at the variant storybook cover for BENEATH THE TREES from the incredible
@rileyrossmo1
?!?! He's creating one for every issue and they're magnificent 🐻🔪
Originally, I thought that perhaps the edge of a kitchen / mail organizer could define a side of the head (roughed-out here in foam core), and a shadow cut across the wall in background might help complete it.
Last touch-ups involved a little paint for some door jambs and a bookshelf to complete the form of the entity. It was the biggest build of any of these, but the design was strangely one of the easiest.
I designed the window treatment and specs for the kitchen / mail organizer in Adobe Illustrator, and sent them to Paratore Signs in Syracuse, NY. They printed up the window treatments and used their CNC router to cut out the shapes for that organizer using MD Fiberboard.
Wanted to share some preview pages of our cozy horror comic BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES for anyone who hasn't seen them
You've got until Monday Sept 11 to get in pre-orders
In comic shops on Oct 18!
Go watch (or re-watch) THE NIGHT HOUSE. Lots of incredible work made it on camera, and a ton of talented people worked their asses off behind camera to make it happen :)