A Spooky Graveyard Fence
To re-create the fences shown in the Nightmare Before Christmas, I started with some aluminum tube pieces from an old broken canopy. The amazing crew…
Author Archives: Eric Albertson
Making a Snake
When families awake on Christmas morning to Jack Skellington’s version of Christmas, they find a number of alarming things! One of those that is shown…
A Hungry Wreath
After Jack Skellington takes over Christmas, he decides to reimagine the traditional Christmas trimmings with his own Halloween Town flair. One of the scary-ified items…
…and Then the Wind Came
We had begun the process of putting up the background pieces in the front yard. We had most of the large scenery pieces (moon, swirl,…
Detailing!
Some of the set pieces and props needed some detailing to bring them to life, namely the Halloween Town terrain pieces and the pumpkins. To…
Building Oogie Boogie (Part 1)
I had wanted to have a human-sized Oogie Boogie as part of the scene, and found a great tutorial online for how to build an…
Making Stone Columns
In the movie, there are several gates which have stone columns on either side. I wanted to capture this in the design for this year’s…
A Spooky Archway
As Jack Skellington is taking his walk through the graveyard, he passes through a gate with a spooky archway. For me, I loved that element…
Painting the Moon
…and mountains and pumpkins! We have a tradition of inviting neighbors, friends, family and co-workers over to help paint set pieces for the house. This…
Help from an Amazing Crew
The Albertson Halloween House is built by many people each year – friends, family, neighbors, co-workers. This year, we had the privilege of working with…
Carving the Stone Wall
With the overall shape of the low stone wall cut out, it was time to texture it so that it looked more like a stone…
Sculpting Progress!
After blocking out the shapes for the background mountains, I cut them out and glued them together. They ended up being pretty big, one of…
Structures and Styrofoam
Progress has been made on the set pieces for this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween house! The current phase involves carving the overall shapes of…
It Begins…
After doing some Photoshop work to determine sizes of the set pieces, it was time to get to work! This year, in contrast to previous…