Pee-Wee looks a little creepy with the lighting from above. Pee-Wee.EXE.
I knew I was going to replicate that moment from the outset of this project, but can't remember if it was before or after the Pterri material, because I did this in the same way as with Pterri--with two shots, one from 3/4 and one from the side. Here, it was a simple matter of rendering the heads in about 50% transparency and then flipping the copies so that they'd face different angles.
"Mr. Claus" is my way of demonstrating that he's taking this seriously. The "What more do you want?!" line is now a last little bit of weakening resistance. His tune changes instantly when he learns he's got to help Santa: running the words together without spaces or punctuation illustrates that he's blindsided and utterly elated.
There was never any question of a dark ending in which he opts for the Christmas list. That would have been a little too much--it would have involved Santa not being entirely clear on the consequences of the choice, and it always came across as him actively hoping that Pee-Wee would take the short-term option just to spring the trap on him.
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