these are band members of Lucifero in Deep Shit. Band members of ‘the Sparks from Hell’ were designed after jazz musicians. I thought they looked great and made some illustrations with them.

In the beginning of the film, baas player Rick Modder walks on the street, passing a pretty lady turning his neck into rubber.

The Satanettes are the backing vocalists of Lucifero in Deep Shit.

Skindeep is the owner of the bar ‘Deep Shit’. He has no legs, and the bar stays as half a walnut around him. he lives in his bar and does not ever need to go anywhere.

Fruitcake is a sleeping, dead or stoned hippy that is quite dried out over the years and stuck to the bar, at Deep Shit. However, from between his feathers come the LSD pills the devil offers the musicians in the bar.

Jean Paul Saté is the singer of a electro-wave band, that rehearses in the same bar as the Brides Of Mayhem do. There is a huge twist over the use of electric guitars in music. Jean Paul has a button of himself on his coat and says often that his band ‘The Forgotten Targets’ is famous in France as ‘Les Cibles Oubliées’

The two bands in Deep can’t stand each other but are their equals in laziness and ambition. My assistant and I spent a whole day on designing the most irritating hairdo we could think of.

Lucifero is the name the devil prefers to be called by, in Deep Shit. He hates punk, new wave, or any music that the bands play in the film. He likes Duke Ellington. Everybody goes to hell nowadays, so his role is merely symbolic – and he hates that too.

But because the Brides of Mayhem is a band that is very ambitious but does not want to practice, he does his old trick once again: he gives them pills so they can ‘meet their maker’ and ask him to be more succesful.

Well, he is as lazy as the musicians basically – he just steals LSD from a stuck-to-the-bar dead hippie and tells a little story. Lucifero lives in the cash machine of a bar with the name ‘Deep Shit’ in which part of the movie plays.

Lucifero comes with a great band, with beëlzebubs playing the instruments.

this dove can be seen in action at the end of. ‘Deep Shit’, a short animated movie I made, with of course many others (see the credits!)

I wanted this dove to be too heavy to fly properly, but we were a bit at the end of our budget. That’s how it goes. Having the bird fly the way I wanted would cost an animator another day and i squeezed the last energy out of them the way we made it already. But on the picture when you swipe, you can see how I had it in mind.

Cor Steijn Jr. is the keyboard player of ‘The Forgotten Targets’, the rivalling band of ‘Brides of Mayhem’ in which Baby Doom sings.

As usual, the side characters are much fun. Like Fruitcake, the hippie that was always referred to as a ‘stool pigeon’ who turns out to be dead for a long time, the shitting pigeon that shows there must be land in the neighbourhood, the funky girl on the street and ‘Skindeep’ the bartender of Deep Shit, who has no legs but a belly that is so round that the bar is built around it.

Rick Modder is the bass player of the Brides of Mayhem. He is based on a special brand of (often Spanish and italian) 60’s punks I saw in Café De Diepte in Amsterdam, which was one of my main inspirations for the movie altogether. Best place to ever exist for a time too short.

The Hammer is the drummer of the Brides of Mayhem. Nobody ever heard him talk, but everybody sure heard him beat the drum kit.

Cor Steijn Jr. is the keyboard player of The Forgotten Targets. He’s more into Progressive Rock than into Synth Wave, but what can you do in a one horse town? Besides that, singer Jean Paul Saté totally overpowers him.

Blister is the guitarist of the punk band Brides of Mayhem. He is almost as smart as Baby Doom, the main character. But he gets angry too easily and then he breaks things, like jaws and eye sockets.