You can go into any different medium – 2D animation, CGI – and be really playful with it. It’s a chance to dive into these other worlds and other styles. So for us, it’s a perfect tool because we were lucky to be working with this format where things don’t need to look real.īecky Sloan: These bits are probably one of the funnest bits about the show. It’s very theatrical and doesn’t lend itself to realism in any way. Which is fun, because it’s quite an old-school technique but it fits. Some of these more stylistic images, where you have the backgrounds become graphic flat backgrounds, we shot them using back projection. Joseph Pelling: Even though this is the first image we’re going to talk about, it’s probably the last thing we shot. Read on for easter eggs, filming techniques and some, er, interesting fan art. With the new Channel 4 season out now, Sloan, Pelling and Terry talk us through a series of snapshots from the series, giving some behind-the-scenes insights into the creation and incredibly crafted detail of the cult series. Think Sesame Street as a warped acid-trip with a healthy dose of Cronenberg-tinged visceral body horror. Expanding on the YouTube shorts, the six half-hour-long episodes amp up the charmingly unhinged reality and surreal situations that Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck find themselves in, learning about everything from jobs to family, death and more. Starring Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck as the main puppet protagonists, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared juxtaposes the apparent innocence of colourful kids TV with fever-dream horror, often switching between the two with hilariously unsettling rapidity.įast forward to now – over a decade since the show first etched itself into our minds – and Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is back with a whole Channel 4 series. Taking a satirically educational-cum-existential nightmare format, the short episodes quickly garnered a cult following. Helmed by creators Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling and Baker Terry – who also voice some of the puppets – the darkly comedic show first launched as a YouTube series back in 2011. And it’s precisely this premise that Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared takes and runs with. There’s something quite unnerving about a lot of kids TV shows, whether that be the larger than life primary coloured creatures, the bizarrely off-kilter humour, or the often inexplicably surreal scenarios the characters find themselves in.
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