Provide a grisly range of physical special effects for the eight-part reality gameshow, set six months after a zombie apocalypse, in which ‘survivors’ are set a series of challenges.

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SFX Artem

Client Tiger Aspect Productions

Brief Provide a grisly range of physical special effects for the eight-part reality gameshow, set six months after a zombie apocalypse, in which ‘survivors’ are set a series of challenges.

How it was done Props supplied by Artem included a gruesome decayed cadaver, life-like body parts and large volumes of blood and gore. Blood rig FX, big smoke FX and practical fire FX were used on location to increase the sense of danger and post-apocalyptic doom. The project was led by Artem’s Scotland office. Filmed outside Edinburgh in a disused shopping village, the series was shot over nine consecutive days, during which the Artem team were on set to respond to the director’s specific requirements for each of the coup de grace ‘death’ scenes.

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