Sunday Stop Motion: The Zombie and the Car

Stop Motion Sunday cartoon of the week: The Zombie and the Car. Not the most clever title, I'll grant you, but it certainly conveys what's happening, doesn't it? Cartoons are always a shamble for me: I reach into my pockets, dig out what I find there, and make a cartoon from it. It's only been a few times that I've ever felt the need to construct anything special, and we'll see those coming up in the future.

Zombies!

 

Got inspired to draw one of the Judge-type zombies I was developing for the story a couple years ago. Lesson learned, though: don't do a composition without having at least a rough background sketch to fall back on.

The Judge Zombies are particularly well-preserved ghouls tasked with commanding heavy machinery for the maintenance of Eb. They move around their facility on elevated tracks, hooking into the nearest limbs. Although huge and seemingly cumbersome, the limbs are actually extremely flexible when they're kept in good condition.  Although pickled nicely, they're a bit crazy: this may have something to do with being zombified while still alive, having your limbs cut off, and being enslaved as a heart surgeon for a thousand lifetimes.

Anybody have any recommendations on the background? All black and spolights weren't really cutting it for this one.