Enjoy this animated holiday greeting from Krampus!
Once the puppet was done, it was a matter of figuring out how to use it create a little Christmas greeting. One thing I’ve come to like about the Krampus character is that it sort of pokes at the “shiny happy” surface of Christmas bit. I like Christmas, but it gets a bit much, to say the least. So that led to the idea of Krampus somehow interrupting a standard, cheesy Christmas video with his own twisted greeting. I don’t know how he did it, but I guess if Santa can come down a chimney, Krampus can broadcast pirate signals into people’s computers.
The best part for me was animating Krampus’s crazy tongue. I’m happy with how it snakes around, all floppy and gross and slobbery. I channeled my inner Gene Simmons to really get in the zone for that tongue animation, and I think it paid off. I bet Gene is a serious Krampus fan.”
