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[shoeler]

the beauty of slenderman is that his costume doesn't have to be perfect. he doesn't just stand in the middle of a field in broad daylight right next to a camera. it's normally dark, he partially concealed, there's large amounts of distortion. so you can definitely shortcut some aspects of the costume.

[Zaden]

There's two things you need to avoid that will kill Slender Man's fear factor.

One is making him too short. If he's not unnaturally tall, the human brain automatically assumes "man in a suit". If he's eight feet tall, the mind reacts with "WTF is that?" That makes the success of a costume. I've seen clown stilts that I think would work. If you need to make something on your own to increase height, don't think you can skip that feature; it's necessary.

Another thing for me is the hands. Human hands just don't seem to work for me (unless you make the arms four and a half feet long). Gloves don't do anything either, they still look like hands. Either lengthen the arms or try and fashion some slentacles to go over your hands. Use Marble Hornets as the standard. Watch Entry #13 (it's there for only one frame towards the end!) or Return for good-looking slentacles or Entry #26 for claw hands.

This topic is already full of stuff for the head, so I thought I'd cover these details. Remember: The less human-looking, the better. Slender Man must be scary.


And obviously, Slender Man can't be obese.

[Lewa]

[Zaden]

[Lewa]

[Zaden]

[NoMoreGaems]

Maybe because you're being needlessly callous.

Also, you can design around any limitation. You can have multiple slendermen setups depending on the shot, that's how Lord of the Rings was filmed. Marble Hornets has at least two, one costume and one scarecrow.

You can also do strategic edits. If you need to have a shot where Slenderman's walking around, you could edit together clips of the actor's legs on the ground with clips of the actor walking on a platform above your other performers, or on stilts (which can limit movement and look not anything like legs), then hide the cuts using Hitchcock swipes.

[questionablecyclops]

[Josh Rallus]

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[justinbabei]

The morph suit is most similar to zentai suit, the same lycra material and same design. Actually, morph suit = unicolor zentai suit or pattern zentai suit. I know a online store http://www.costumesok.com/ offer lots of high quality zentai suits.

[BanishedZaber]

You can create this effect for $5 if you're building a Manequin type Slender Man, though I lack advice on an actor type Slender Man.

It's just a styrofoam craft head with some flesh tone felt and and stockings.

[Kashiratama]

In my opinion, to create a convincing Slender Man, not only do you need him to look right, you need the place he is at to look right.

I think that Slendy during the day isn't as scary as at night, and that he doesn't seem to belong there. It's more horrifying when it is harder to see him, because when you finally do, you empty your bowels of all bricks.

But on the same subject, daytime can work if done right. Just find some particularly dark barked trees, and have him stand there, or have him standing against a dark painted house in the shade.

What I'm basically getting at is that not only should you consider what Slendy looks like, you should also consider what everything around him looks like in comparison.

As for actor Slendy and mannequin Slendy, I myself favour actor Slendy, simply for movement. Slendy doesn't ALWAYS stand still, he just does most of the time. Save the movements for moments when bowel evacuation would be perfect. And if you really want to think out of the box, you could have him run. I've always thought that if Slendy ran, it would be quite terrifying, if done right. You could speed it up to make it seem as if he has inhuman speed.

Now, if you want to really get scary, you could use special effects, and have how do a spider walk with his tentacles. Well, it would scare the trousers off of me anyways. But just like the movements, save something like that for EXTREMELY crucial pants ruining moments.

To go along with the special effects, you could just use those to put Slendy in, if actor and mannequin Slendy just don't work for you.

[punxtr]

The best Slenderman sightings I have seen are daytime shots.

[Kashiratama]

[punxtr]

I've seen it done better in daytime. I prefer him better at daytime. Slendy is not a cowardly force that frightens people at night. He removes all feeling of safety during the daytime as well.