![]() “For each of our stages, except for the Dogogorgon, we created physical models of them,” said Christina Graff. To facilitate the actors’ interactions with the nascent Demogorgon, actual models of each stage were made. We knew we wanted to show him going from a two-legged tadpole to a four-legged toad, see the birth pains of the legs penetrating and the saliva and stuff coming out on the table in the room.” It’s moving where his legs are going to sprout. Something is going on here that’s fairly aggressive. “We have to basically always kind of show the expansion … even at when he’s twitching and you see something moving under his skin when he’s a Tadpole. “Because it had to grow really fast, we felt we also have to show it growing,” said Paul Graff. Once he sprouts hind legs and fits more completely inside the Ghostbusters trap, he’s in the Frogogorgon stage. That’s when he hears these sounds behind the cars, and it was clear that that was going to be the same sound that we were going to use for the Pollywog but that was exactly the sound designer’s territory so we weren’t really sure when we were shooting how exactly it sounds.” The Frogogorgon Dart as a Frogogorgon, “Stranger Things” Netflixĭart doesn’t stay a Tadpole for long. “There’s the scene on Loch Nora when Will first sees the Shadow Monster turn around and go for him and chase him. “It was clear that it was kind of chirpy,” said Paul Graff. Paul Graff credits sound designer Craig Henighan for Dart’s adorable voice. ![]() This was another strategy to making Dart seem charming: make him sound cute. The Pollywog wouldn’t strut, so how was it going to move? And all of those models that we ended up sharing with the Duffers and all of those things that they liked, then we passed those on to the sound department so that they could begin with their sound design work.” But we tried to be really kind of secretive about the Demogorgon-like features, and at the same time we knew that that’s where we have to head with the development of the shape.”Ĭhristina Graff said, “Once we had the actual concepts for the four stages…we moved on to motion design where we figured out how the Stage 1 Tadpole moved. It develops like a split upper lip and there’s a closeup where it opens its mouth and you can already see the little sharp teeth in there. “We knew that for Stages 1 and 2, we didn’t want to give away that it is a Demogorgon, so we kind of hid all the features that are too obviously Demogorgon-like, like the petal mouth. “It’s not easy without a face,” explained Graff. Making the Pollywog adorable was a challenge though. It was important that Dustin would find the Tadpole cute at this semi-larval stage, so the audience could understand why he’d take care of the critter he named Dart.
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