was initially skeptical to create one due to the idea of it being "kind of silly" and attempted to persuade Garris not to include it. The two ultimately decided to produce a "rotted" version of the scarecrow, meaning the stitching of the fabric, as Beeler put it, "makes it appear as if it has scars all across its face that are coming apart at the seams with dust and sawdust falling out whenever it speaks." Johnson later admitted that the scarecrow was his favorite Flagg incarnation of the miniseries. For a silhouette shot of the scarecrow in the cornfield, the shape of the character's eyes and mouth are indicated through a glowing effect. The radiating contact lens used on the eyes were previously made by XFX for the film Innocent Blood (1992); while a light-emitting diode palate for the mouth was created by Rick Baker colleague Mark Setraikien and triggered via wires under Sheridan's make-up. XFX members came up with multiple concepts for the scarecrow's hair, Johnson suggesting a set of mushrooms, flowers, and moss growing around it. He also thought of worms and cockroaches crawling in the hair for close-up shots; however, when they were placed on Sheridan's hair during a test, the actor freaked out and Johnson thought it "wouldn't have read on film anyway." The final result was that the hair was made of "muddy, twisted roots growing out of his head" which Johnson thought "looked the creepiest." While Tom Barham of New York's Image Group company handled the morphing FX, Garris came up with the idea of having Flagg's head morph executed in a way different from the traditional media morph of one head design just melting into another: inside out. Not only was it different, but also a way to work around the limited budget as the morphing could look "active" without the camera having to move. In creating Flagg's morphs, the actor first filmed the scene on set without his makeup on. Then, on a greenscreen stage in Las Vegas, he was filmed doing the exact same action with makeup on, the camera set at precisely the same angle and character distance as the original shot. Both shots were then combined in post-production. The green-screening technique was done due to the amount of time it took to get Flagg's make-up on, which was at minimum three hours. Trashcan Man Six stages of burn make-up