region that fit the character descriptions
from the books. I then sat down with cos-
tume designer Judianna Makovsky to break
down every creature and figure out where each
department would contribute to the look so to stay
on time and within our budgets. For example, the
creeps from the TV episode "Calling All Creeps!"
might have been animatronics, but considering our
constraints, the look was only doable if wardrobe
covered actors' bodies while we created heads and
hands. With Judianna's help, we narrowed the list
down even further to 27 characters. This collabora-
tion was crucial to any of this being possible, espe-
cially with only six weeks to design, sculpt, fabricate
and finish everything. Also, the short summer nights
meant we only had a few hours of darkness to film
the monster scenes, so each make-up application
had to be completed within the 2½-hour maximum.
This was all considered before design could begin.
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Forrest
Hill
and
Mae
Tidman
with
Boggy