Vampire Duck!
In the Nightmare Before Christmas, the Vampire Brothers create their version of a Christmas toy, which ends up being a little scarier than your average…
Christmas Morning Gone Awry
To capture the essence of Jack Skellington’s version of Christmas, I wanted to make sure we had a scene depicting the various Halloween-themed decorations. For…
A Spooky Graveyard Fence
To re-create the fences shown in the Nightmare Before Christmas, I started with some aluminum tube pieces from an old broken canopy. The amazing crew…
Making a Snake
When families awake on Christmas morning to Jack Skellington’s version of Christmas, they find a number of alarming things! One of those that is shown…
A Hungry Wreath
After Jack Skellington takes over Christmas, he decides to reimagine the traditional Christmas trimmings with his own Halloween Town flair. One of the scary-ified items…
…and Then the Wind Came
We had begun the process of putting up the background pieces in the front yard. We had most of the large scenery pieces (moon, swirl,…
Detailing!
Some of the set pieces and props needed some detailing to bring them to life, namely the Halloween Town terrain pieces and the pumpkins. To…
Building Oogie Boogie (Part 1)
I had wanted to have a human-sized Oogie Boogie as part of the scene, and found a great tutorial online for how to build an…
Making Stone Columns
In the movie, there are several gates which have stone columns on either side. I wanted to capture this in the design for this year’s…
A Spooky Archway
As Jack Skellington is taking his walk through the graveyard, he passes through a gate with a spooky archway. For me, I loved that element…