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Interviews

Interview with Martin Livings

"I wanted to set Carnies in as close to the real world as possible, and in the real world people can't just morph into animals. So I conducted my research of human and canine anatomies, did heaps of sketches of bones and muscles, tried to figure out how it would all work, and in the end, I just made it up. I really wanted to explore how real people would react to a situation like this, and the best way of doing so was to keep it all as realistic as I could, so that the emotions would be genuine. Of course, that makes it sound very pretentious, which it really isn't. It was also to keep myself interested, to not just take the same route as every other werewolf story."
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