![]() The stabbing inspired the documentary Beware the Slenderman, which was released in 2016. He has also appeared in a 2015 film adaptation of Marble Hornets, where he was portrayed by Doug Jones, and an eponymous 2018 film, where he was portrayed by Javier Botet.īeginning in 2014, a moral panic occurred over the Slender Man after readers of his fiction were connected to several violent acts, particularly a near-fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The character has appeared in the video game Slender: The Eight Pages (2012) and its successor Slender: The Arrival (2013), as well as inspiring the Enderman in Minecraft. Fiction relating to the Slender Man encompasses many media, including literature, art and video series such as Marble Hornets (2009–2014), wherein he is known as The Operator. The Slender Man has become a pop culture icon, although he is not confined to a single narrative but appears in many disparate works of fiction, typically composed online. Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature his stalking, abducting, or traumatizing people, particularly children. He is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless white head and face, wearing a black suit. Though I don't have a picture of it here.The Slender Man (also spelled Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forum user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009. Instead I found some burned paper images on line and doctored them in photoshop superimposing my hand written text on top and then went through some time consuming work of cutting the burned edges, the results were super cool. ![]() It definitely wasn't a process that made sense to duplicate 60 times. I tried actually burning a few notes but the look wasn't consistent and some of the pages burned entirely. There are also a number of burned notes in the book which were also fun to recreate. To make these into real pages with the look and feel of newsprint I copied the stories onto kids drawing paper sketch pads, the dark recycled paper that you might find at the Dollar Store, then printed real news stories on the backside and finally crumpled the pages. The game designers did an awesome job including old papers in the game but the images were created in photoshop and only exist in virtual environments. The noise was horrible, but I got clean towels out of the deal so that was an unexpected bonus.Ĭreating fake news clippings was definitely a creative challenge. Aging the books themselves was actually the 1st thing I did to the journals, throwing them into my dryer in batches of 10 at a time along with wet towels. Fortunately it wasn't to hard to talk the kids into helping and my daughter was all over the idea of leaving mud smeared hand prints on the book covers. Since many of the documents were supposedly sourced from different authors I needed to come up with several different types of handwriting which was trickier than I'd anticipated. Creating real tangible things from fictional characters is exactly the kind of job I love doing and a great follow up project to the work I did for the Dragon Eternity game release last year. If you aren't fully up on his origins check out his wikipedia entry or even more fun the Slenderman Wiki on Creepy Pasta. The thing which makes Slenderman so interesting to me is how he came into being, created by unaffiliated authors, bloggers and filmmakers, a crowd sourced child of the internet and collective ghost story. Along with notes and pages that players need to collect during game play, I included photo "sightings" of Slenderman from internet memes, clippings from forums, original photography and easter eggs like QR codes on a doctor's stationary which led back to the game site and a phone number on the inside of a matchbook for a very creepy voice mail account. My client wanted each book to feel like a special discovery, a chronicle of events and clues in the game and expansion of the narrative back story for many of the characters. Hands down, my favorite project this spring was a custom job for Blue Isle Studios creating 60 hand made journals as press kits for their release of Slenderman the Arrival on Xbox 360 and PS3.
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