Sweet Tooth’s post-apocalyptic plague required a pinkie-finger-wiggling machine

In Netflix’s Sweet Tooth society has been overtaken by ‘The Sick’. When characters first contract the illness the first symptom is a telltale pinkie wiggle.

Unless the actors all had immaculate pinkie dexterity, something had to create that effect. Was it CGI, a prop finger…? Nope! it was a “pinky-wiggling machine” powered by an old hard drive. Via Polygon:

Achieving that effect unaided was not always easy, but for anyone who found it difficult, Sweet Tooth’s effects team developed a bespoke pinkie-wiggling machine using the spin of a laptop’s hard drive. “That was the motor,” Mickle said, “and they connected that, basically taped it to a wire that went up someone’s arm and they just animated the hard drive and it would actually [shake their finger].”

See it here demoed by actress Aliza Vellani (spoilers):

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