Creating a practical ghost can be a challenge, but Patrick Horvath found a way to do it. Bringing ghosts to life in film is often a job reserved for the FX team, but David Bruckner’s The Night House wanted to use practical effects to create its monster, a shadowy entity. Patrick Horvath, the entity effects designer for the film, took on this task, manipulating shapes and shadows to inhabit the house, taking over the character's psyche through optical illusions. But how did Horvath do this? Horvath took to Twitter to share the process behind creating the entity within the space of a scene. Through a lot of trial and error and cleverly crafted set designs, Horvath and the set design team used negative space to trick the audience into seeing something that was never truly there. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 15 April, 2022