Creepy vines, severed limbs, and the destruction of Hawkins were just a few of the visualeffects elements Scanline VFX brought to StrangerThings season 4.
Season 4 of Stranger Things subjected the kids from Hawkins, Indiana, to some of the scariest experiences they’ve had so far as they battled a new threat from the sinister dimension known as the Upside Down. It also tested the mettle of the show’s visual effects teams, which were tasked with delivering the Netflix hit’s most massive, explosive scenes so far, as well as some of its most gruesome, nightmarish environments.
Justin Mitchell: Most of our work in that sequence involved digital matte painting. There had been a massacre, and there were orderlies and kids that were all dead on the floor, and blood and cracked tiles on the walls where people had been smashed up against them. And there was a lot of disfigurement everywhere, broken limbs and such, because when One — or Vecna — kills his victims, he does so by snapping their arms and legs and poking their eyes in, which is pretty macabre.
There were also the vines that crawled up from the Upside Down, through the rift opening. The vines are a very important part of Stranger Things, particularly in this season as they operate as an extension of Vecna, part of his hive mind. And there was also the membrane — a kind of a fleshy barrier that spans the width of a rift.
They actually had the Creel house on set, so we created a digital replica of what existed, rather than creating the whole thing. What we did in the Creel House primarily was to add the vines that the kids carefully step over…Yeah, exactly. It doesn’t work out so well. Ultimately, they get grabbed by those vines and held up against the wall, but of course, they manage to escape. So, the vines were all animated.
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