Rick Catizone interviewed: from Night of the Living Dead to Evil Dead 2 to Shudder's Creepshow, reflecting on 50 years in animation

Rick Catizone interview, Halloween VFX, Evil Dead 2, Creepshow
(Image credit: Rick Catizone)

Spooky season and Halloween is upon us, so I jumped at the opportunity to speak to an animator who has worked on, and continues to create for, some of horror's most-loved films and TV shows. Rick Catizone has been working in stop-motion animation (still championed by Aardman Animations) for more than 50 years, and has seen it all.

Rick filmed the animated the iconic end sequence for the original Night of the Living Dead, he was directing animator on the feature films Creepshow and Creepshow 2, he created the classic 'finger-drumming' animation of Ash's crawling hand sequences for Evil Dead 2 and, he says, "just a few years ago, I also created the Creep animation for the first season of my old pal Greg Nicotero's Creepshow TV series for Shudder". Quite the record in film, and you can read about in his new book The Art of Rick Catizone and Anivision Studio.

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Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.