Post #752428 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Oct 11, 2015 8:09 PM

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!

Happy October 11th…
in the spirit of the season I'm putting up a creature design I did for a friend who wrote and directed a low-budget horror film. Ryan, my friend is a great story teller by nature, and when he showed me a script he wrote for a small budget flick, I was thrilled by how down right scary it was. He had researched a real phenomenon, talked to people who had explored it and discovered some really weird stuff. Then, he wrote his story. It's about EVP - "ghost voices" you can actually record in empty rooms. People's voices appearing on an audio tape where no one should be.
In true Ryan fashion, he told me an absolutely hair-raising tale of something that happened to him during his research with a university professor who was exploring EVP but stopped all research when things got... too dangerous.

The film's called TRACE.
After I read his script, I offered to use all my official Hollywood Union (Local 790) "Senior Production Artist" skills and design him a creature... for free, and that would met his budget (which pretty much was nothing) or try to come as close as I could. Ryan was extremely happy with the design, and the studio he was working with loved it. In fact, it helped them decide to "Green Light" his film. Ryan got to make his movie, and after many harrowing months, it's about to be released to the public.

TRACE will be released this month exclusively for rent on RED BOX - which for someone's first film is pretty cool. Ryan's happy he got any official distribution at all, and he's also somewhat wiser about the job and life of a film maker.

I have not seen the finished film. I have no idea how the TRACE Demon will look in the final film. I think Ryan said they were so broke they could not get the horns right so he may just be bald. Wan-ta ' know? Get to a RED-BOX on October 27th and rent TRACE and find out. If it's even just the story I read in the script it will be a darned creepy ride, and a fun Halloween treat.

Here, submitted for your October Tiki-Tribe approval is the first concept art for the EVP TRACE Demon, (before anyone else gets to see it! Hey, Tiki Central does have it's perks!)

Oh Jeepers Creepers! THIS JUST IN! …., my friend Ryan, just sent me a link to the TRACE Trailer on you-tube! OKAY, TIKI-TRIBE… Give this "Chicken Skin Story" an Eye-Ball!! http://youtu.be/850X3mO3MtI

ALOHA!

Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker

tikishark.com
ALOHA, RAWK ON, & Be MOST EXCELLENT to Each Other!

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2015-10-12 18:46 ]