TOON CARNAGE — Halloween at AOD

The sixth floor of AOD became an afterlife for cartoon characters. TOON CARNAGE asked one gloriously ridiculous question. What would your favourite cartoon character look like after a particularly bad ending? The answers came in costume, makeup and masks, with prizes for the scariest looks and the cleverest concepts.

Student workshops set the scene, from building props and making masks to transforming the space itself. The fun was in figuring out how far you could push a familiar character and still have people recognise it. A signature colour, a telltale silhouette or a familiar expression could give the game away, even after a generous application of horror makeup.

The costume competitions gave everyone a few different ways to play the brief. Best Costume rewarded the full transformation, Best Makeup drew attention to the details, and Best Concept made room for the idea that got everyone talking. For anyone going all in on the horror, there was Scariest Costume.

On the night, Eyeball Pong, tarot readings and mystery boxes kept the mischief going. Childhood nostalgia got a horror makeover, and our students took the brief very seriously.