If you're trying to figure out how to make horror work on television, the team behind It: Welcome to Derry just showed us. In a recent interview with Variety, VFX supervisor Daryl Sawchuk and prosthetics head Sean Sansom revealed how they pulled off the show's shocking opening sequence.Welcome to Derry opens with a disturbing birth scene inside a car, where a demon baby emerges from between their mother's legs in a splash of blood and goo to attack the show's first doomed kid, who was unlucky enough to hitch a ride with this horrifying family. It's the kind of sequence that could easily look cheesy or fall flat, but it works. - YouTube www.youtube.com Use Practical FXThere's nothing better than effects you can see in real life in the moment, as the team demonstrates. "My approach to visual effects is always to try to get as much practical stuff as possible, and it was great that Andy and Sean feel the same," Sawchuk told Variety. "So we built a lot of practical reference for us to scan and shoot for the baby that comes out, but Sean's team also built the woman's fake legs and the birthing rig. We had a lot of fantastic practical goo and blood and all sorts of stuff that we used as a starting point and then expanded upon when we got into post."This hybrid approach gave actors something real to react to and created authentic lighting references for the VFX team to match later....
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