Special Guest: The Chiodo Brothers
The Chiodo Brothers scheduled to appear for the 2008 SHFF!
Creators of the cult classic film KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE -The Chiodo Brothers have been proactive in film and special effects for quite some time. They have been confirmed to appear at the 2008 Sacramento Horror Film Festival. Check out their stellar resume below!
Recent Credits:
Team America World Police - Puppet Producers
Elf - Designed, fabricated, and produced stopmotion animation sequences and the main title sequences for the feature film.
Clay - Designed, fabricated, and animated Playhouse Disney interstitials.
The Simpsons 2006 Christmas Episode - Designed, fabricated, and produced the stopmotion animated sequences "The California Prunes" and "The Year Santa Got Lost".
Hutchington Square - Designed, fabricated, and produced adult puppet show pilot.
The Washington Byrnees Report - Designed, fabricated, and produced puppet news show pilot.
Innards - Designed, fabricated, and produced pilot for episodic stop-motion animation series.
Ultimate Action Figures - Conceptualized, produced, and animated two 60 sec. & 30 sec. stop-motion commercials & a 90 sec. promotional spot.
Bibleman - Designed and fabricated eleven armored suits & weaponry for video and touring show.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space - wrote, produced, and directed.
Dinosaur - (Walt Disney Pictures.) Fabricated stopmotion puppet used for motion capture device for the ’Aladar’ character.
Apt Pupil - (Sony Pictures Entertainment.) Fabricated realistic cable operated cat for oven sequence.
Focus - (Focus Productions. L.L.P.) Designed and fabricated gear mechanism for the movie’s main title sequence.
Behind the Sun - (Propaganda Films/ Lions Gate.) Designed and fabricated prosthetics.
The Stupids - (St. Claire Entertainment/ Savoy Pictures.) Fabricated puppets and produced stop motion animation of dog and cat characters for this live action feature directed by John Landis.
Tales from the Hood - designed and fabricated articulated demonic voodoo doll puppets for Spike Lee’s urban horror film. Also puppeteered, produced stop-motion animation sequences, and provided second unit production services.
Screamers - (Allegro Films.) Fabricated full-size articulated mechanized puppets and produced stopmotion animation for feature film.
T-Rex - (Dyno Productions, Inc.) Fabricated and puppeteered articulated puppets.
Ernest Scared Stupid - (Disney/Emshall Productions.) Designed, fabricated, and operated evil Troll characters.
The Good Burger - (Paramount Pictures.) Fabricated radio controlled hamburger puppets.
Critters 1, 2, 3 & 4 - (SHO/Films/ New Line Cinema.) Designed, fabricated, and operated title alien creatures.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - (Warner Bros.) Fabricated and animated ’Large Marge’ transformation.
Double Dragon - (Greenleaf Productions.) Designed and fabricated appliance make-up for mutant bad guys.
Naked Gun III - (Stargate.) Produced stopmotion animation of dinosaur for title sequence.
Darkman - (Universal.) Produced two special stopmotion effect shots in feature film.
Robocop - (Orion Pictures.) Fabricated and animated dinosaur puppet in SUX 6000 commercial.
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie - (Saban/ 20th Century Fox.) Fabricated various animatronic villians such as Maligor, Elgar, Mermaid and Eaglettes.
Hideous Mutant Freaks - (Tommy Productions.) Produced special "Gumby" clay-animation sequence for feature film.
Rubin and Ed - (Working Title Pictures.) Designed, fabricated and operated water-skiing cat prop and hand puppet.
I Go Pogo - (Stowmar Productions.) Animation direction and production design for full-length clay animated feature.
Demon Island aka Pinata - Designed and fabricated animatronic Pinata, makeup effects and prothetics & designed CG characters and storyboards for CG sequences.
Gremlins - (Warner Bros./ Fantasy II.) Sculpted and painted Gremlin animation puppets.
Sword and the Sorcerer - (Cannon Group.) Designed and fabricated and operated crypt of heads.
Radioactive Dreams - (ITM.) Designed, fabricated, and operated 14 foot pneumatcially-controlled Rat monster.
Seth - (Hill & Brand Productions.) Designed and fabricated a 30’ animatronic snake.
Chairman of the Board - (Trimark.) Fabrication of comedic props for feature film starring comedian "Carrot Top".
Thats my Bush - (Comedy Central.) Designed and fabricated animatronic fetus character & animatronic cat puppet for multiple episodes.
Chronicle - (Sci-Fi Channel.) Designed and fabricated prosthetics, special effects makeup & creatures in multiple episodes.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch - (WB & ABC/ Viacom Productions.) Design, fabrication, and maintenance of animatronic "Salem" cat.
The Man Show - (ABC/ Funhouse Productions.) Created 2-D puppet based on the painting "Waterloo".
The Mr. Potato Head Show - (Film Roman.) Designed and fabricated entire puppet cast for children’s series.
Power Rangers Time Force - (20th Century Fox Television.) Designed and produced stop motion animation of the T-Rex sequence.
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - (Saban Entertainment.) Designed and fabricated the "Battleizer" and "Circuit Astronema" suits.
Days of our Lives - (NBC.) Designed and fabricated baby for Bo’s nightmare sequence.
A Bug's Life, The Real Dirt - (W.G. Longstore/ Disney/ Buena Vista.) Designed and fabricated bug puppets for television special.
Goosebumps - (Dreamworks Interactive) Fabricated various rod & cable controlled monster puppets, a full-size animatronic Werewolf costume & mummy appliance make-up.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Next Mutation - (Saban/ Shavik Ent.) Fabricated lead turtle characters and villians. Designed CAPS, a proprietary computer control system to enable one puppeteer to control a character.
The Crayon Box - (Chiodo Bros. Prod./ Random House/ Polygram Video.) Co-Executive produced this pre-school syndicated television series. Fabricated entire puppet cast for 26 episodes.
Skwids - (Chiodo Bros./Nickelodeon.) Executive produced and created pilot for TV series.
Baby Huey’s Great Easter Adventure - (Harvey Entertainment.) Fabricated and designed life-size animatronic "Baby Huey" character.
Lost on Earth - (Quincy Jones/ David Salzman Entertainment.) Fabricated all puppets and walk-around suits for puppet situation comedy series for USA Network.
The Dana Gould Project - (Comcon Productions.) Fabricated "Baby Gordon" puppet character.
Cybill - (Carsey Werner Co.) Constructed minature Billboard.
Rattled - (USA Network/ Great Falls Productions.) Designed, fabricated and puppeteered animatronic rattle snakes.
Masked Rider - (Saban Ent.) Sabricated puppets, standard and robotic, of hero character and creature suits (durable for stunts and fights) for recurring villians.
The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys - (Chiodo Bros. Prod. / Howie Mandel/ CBS.) Executive producers. Design, fabrication, and production of special makeup and visual effects.
The All-New Land of the Lost - (Sid and Marty Krofft/ ABC.) Co-Producers. Special visual Effects production including stop-motion animation, hand puppets, appliance make-up, and costumes.
Roseanne - (Carsey-Werner Co.) Constructed and blew up minature of Roseanne’s house for Halloween ’94 episode.
Cousin Kevin - (Chiodo Bros. Prod./ KABC.) Wrote, produced, and directed half-hour life-action TV special.
Beastmaster III - (Stu Segall Productions.) Designed and fabricated 8 foot monster suit for television series pilot.
Crash the Curiousaurus - (ABC/ KANE.) EMMY nomination for the character design and costume fabrication of "Crash the Curiousaurus" for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
"Thriller"/ The Making of "Thriller" - (Kramer and Associates.) Designed and animated main and segment titles. Grammy awards winner, "Best Video".
Aliens for Breakfast - (Think Productions.) Fabricated and puppeteered pocket alien and evil, tentacled Drane alien.
The Last Days of Russell - (Hickox Bowman/ Hudlin Brothers.) Design, fabrication and stop-motion for ABC television pilot.
Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre - (Platypus Production.) Fabricated special mechanical props and minatures for eighteen shows over a four year period.
Xuxa - (MTM/ Lynch Entertainment.) Design and fabrication of costume characters for syndicated children’s show.
UFO Abductions - (Victor & Grais Productions/ CBS Network.) Designed, fabricated, and operated alien character.
Monsters - ("Hostile Takeover" & "Sleeping Dragon" Laurel FX.) Designed and fabricated devil transformation and full dinosaur suit.
Adventures in Wonderland - (Disney Channel/ Betty Productions.) Puppet Designers, fabricators, and puppeteers.
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