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Here it is, what you've all been waiting for! The SECRET ZOMBIE PROJECT is revealed.

"But what is it?" you may be asking yourself. Well, that's why I've brought to you this EXCLUSIVE MAKING-OF SPECIAL FEATURE.

I have been doing some work for the College of DuPage Library, and one of the ideas they had was a series of videos about different parts of the library. This project started out as a simple "How to print" instructional video, until the librarian I was working with on the project said "I wish we could do something crazy, like zombies in the library or something."

Now, I wasn't sure what I could get away with. After all, librarians are bookish folks who go around filing things and shushing people, right?

Not quite. I drew up a quick storyboard with the zombie concept, and they loved it.



Then I told them it was going to be a cartoon. I got a bunch of librarians together and recorded an undead chorus of frightful moans. I recorded hokey old-timey instructional video narration, and threw in old public-domain music for kicks.

They ate it up. Who are these librarians?

Next, I threw together an animatic (moving storyboard) to be presented at the Library's staff meeting.


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It was unanimously approved. They gave me the go-ahead to produce the final animation. I became known as "the zombie guy" around the library.

And now, after weeks of furiously animating in flash, there is a video about zombies on my school's library website.

I have to ask again... Who are these librarians?

...and what will they let me get away with next?