The 2013 Welcome to Hell short film is Wester's senior thesis animation. Prior to the film, an unfinished webcomic also titled Welcome to Hell posted to her DeviantArt account from 2010 to 2011 tells a similar version of the events presented early in the film. Images and ideas surrounding the characters of Sock Sowachowski, Jonathan Combs, and Mephistopheles date back as far as 2007 on her DeviantArt account.