When Zombies Attack! — A Cartoon!

It’s about time. Check out this cool little ditty: a trailer for an CG-animation zombie movie.

Looks pretty cool. I like the idea of taking the zombie genre into the digital realm — worlds of possibilities, I say, not just for animators, but for stunt coordinators and stunt fighters, too. A lot of people complain that with CGI movies, they’ll be less need for human actors. Not true. Look at Avatar or even how the video-game industry has revolutionized fighting games.

Any good animation director knows that to do convincing animated violence, you need flesh-and-blood stuntman to strap on a motion-capture suit to record his movements as the basis for a CGI character. That’s the only way to translate complex action scenes convincingly on screen.

With a successful zombie CGI cartoon, even more doors will open for the types of animated action that can be filmed — and for the variety of stuntman who can lend their talents.

So, strap on the mo-cap balls and let’s get undead, shall we?

Tags: action, animated, animation, CGI, horror, mo-cap, motion-capture, zombies