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42 Due to the tax incentives, production urged us to try to do the whole build in Atlanta. I found a workshop to rent for the tremendous build of all 27 practical creatures for make-up and special effects. After I sent him the list, our creature make-up effects designer/supervisor, Steve Prouty, started with the concept designs of Stine's imagined charac- ters. "It was a dream job," says Prouty. "There are not too many jobs where you're asked to come in and make an army of monsters. The script was so clever and fun, I was hooked immediately." To complete our build team, Prouty and I brought in two more award-winning artists from Hollywood, Greg Funk and Jamie Kelman. Funk was thrilled for this opportunity to be involved in such a creative project from beginning to end, and he expressed to me what I believe we all felt: "This was a cool project to do, going back to the day when you sculpted, molded and took your make-up to set. The dream we all wanted when we started out. Such hard work but a great payoff." Once our team had assembled and set up shop in Atlanta, we took the concept designs and then interpreted them into a three-dimensional world of sculpture molds and prosthet- ics. In our series of make-up tests, some were too scary, and some were not scary enough. We had to find the happy medium. This back-and-forth between design and approval was especially so for the ghouls from the book Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls, which were redesigned multiple times by Prouty to get them just right. Eight ghouls were created from custom-made foam latex prosthetics applied to the actors' faces. Each ghoul had a fresh set of their particular prosthetics that our team applied every day. The ghoul's long fingers were also prosthetics that were created in our rented workshop by the hundreds after being molded from scratch. With the help of Atlanta artist Forrest Hill, they were individually hand-painted and brushed with clear nail polish to be used up to three times on set. While the Bog Monster from the episode " You Can't Scare Me!" could have been designated to wardrobe, Steve Prouty had always wanted to create a monster like that and jumped at this opportunity to do so. He set up a mannequin in cam- ouflage military fatigues and built up and out with closed cell foam, then he covered it with ghillie suit material that Greg Funk with creeps