🍓🏠 Full of inventive dreamscapes and wildly imaginative visual effects... enter the surreal world of #StrawberryMansion - select cinemas and on demand 16 Sept!
— Bulldog Film Distribution (@Bulldog_Film) August 16, 2022
Check out the trailer for @KentuckerAudley and @simplysylvio's fantastic film. pic.twitter.com/IA6o7ElHxb
And a few excerpts from a long thread:
Here's how we made the house in Strawberry Mansion: found a dollhouse at a thrift store for $99, painted it, put on a new roof, added a porch so it matched our location, then filmed it in the same field so the lighting matched. Last shot is how it appears in the movie 🏡 pic.twitter.com/Mm9V6XIs22
— Albert Birney (@simplysylvio) October 11, 2022
The head of the Frog Waiter was built by @marnie_ellen in a style she learned making Mardi Gras floats. The frog began as insulation foam on a bike helmet, then one sided corrugated cardboard, then paper mache and paint. The eyeballs were red maracas found at a thrift store 🐸 pic.twitter.com/UZHVUlKCSx
— Albert Birney (@simplysylvio) October 12, 2022
Here's how we made the blue demon grab the ship out of the ocean: first there was the collage sketch, then I put on the demon mask made by @clckwrkcreature and performed the action in front of a green screen, then @mlathrom put it all together and added water/fire effects 👹 pic.twitter.com/a862i5eCRA
— Albert Birney (@simplysylvio) October 12, 2022
The ad-blocking helmet was made by @marnie_ellen. Made by taking apart a bunch of electronics and then hot gluing wires and random bits to a bike helmet with some foil tape and Christmas lights thrown in ⛑ pic.twitter.com/blM6JgrFGa
— Albert Birney (@simplysylvio) October 14, 2022