Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated

The classic zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead, changed the horror genre forever and made zombies a household name.

It has been remade, ripped off, parodied, and sequeled. Now, it will be 'Re-Animated.' Artists, Animators, and
Film-makers, you are invited to recreate any scenes or sequences from the film. Your process and visual language is completely opened to you. Flash, drawn, photo montage, edited/ filtered footage, 3D modeled, sprite animation, clay, reenactment, game recording, sampled footage form other films... whatever process you can think of... The only restriction is that the video must sync to the original unedited audio track and it must be in black and white.

In the end, the clips will be ordered and the film rebuilt through experimental and alternative footage... Thus 'Re-animated'.

In the event that some of the same clips are selected by different
artists, the better clip will be selected through online jury.

This film is public domain so editing can be done without concern of
copyright. In fact a copy can be downloaded freely from the National Archive. http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

The clip can be as long or as short as you desire and as complex or as simple as you feel is needed to do them justice.

All entries must be received by July 11th, 2008.

For more information contact:
shenlon@hotmail.com .

- Mike Schneider
Neo-Flux Animator

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Night
• of
• the
• Living
• Dead
• Zombie
• Zombies
• Animation
• Group
• Experimental
• Romero
• Neoflux

[Dunbahl]

That's not animation. You're just taking the film and applying animation effects in Final Cut or whatever software your using.

[kureejiieshi]

With some of the clips... and altering though computer filters is also a form of animation.

One could make the case that stop motion or rotoscoping is photography... but they are widely accepted as animation.

Films in more recent years such as 'A Scanner Darkly' were generated almost completely through filtration processes and yet it is widely accepted as an animated film.

There is more one way to animate someone beating a horse.

-Mike

[Dunbahl]

Yes, but "A Scanner Darkly" was shot by the director with the intention of applying that effect. And stop motion animators are shooting thier own models and are moving them one frame at a time themselves. You're taking pre-existing live action footage that someone else shot and are applying an effect to it.

[kureejiieshi]

The footage is public domain meaning it's free access for consumption, use or modification without any copyright restraint. So the original source material is fair use.

If the argument is 'this isn't animation' then the fact that you accept a film which employs filtration negates that argument.

If you are arguing that the resulting clips are not crafted enough to really be presented as my own... They are in work... so hold judgment until the project is assembled and results are in.

- Mike

[kureejiieshi]

'And stop motion animators are shooting thier own models and are moving them one frame at a time themselves.'

That depends on their process... less we forget time lapsing where the footage is taken then through techniques of stop/ step motion time is condensed. Time lapse sequencing is also animation.

As far as using others footage, think of how many programs recycle footage from older shows. SL2021/ SG: C2C/... Resampling is a common practice in modern animation.

- Mike

[kureejiieshi]

Clips can be submitted as replies to this clip.

[szanski]

Dunbahl got ripped, good work Mike.