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About Murnau The
Vampire
Murnau The Vampire
(2006 All rights reserved)
OM Animation Studio
Screenplay, Design, Models, Animation & Direction: SOMNUS PRAVIS
Based on Nosferatu (1922)
MURNAU is the first mexican animated short film realized on DVD format,
released to the internet.
Based on the Elephants Dream's model, developed by Blender Found, MURNAU
aims to get directly to the viewers, bypassing the difficult
distribution channels for animated short films.
Some of the objectives of the MURNAU project, are the exploration of
different graphical tendencies to the traditional 3D actual market,
better content and quality for low budget productions and the creative
freedom of the small studios.
Since the beginning, MURNAU has count with the support from different
elements, from co-producers willing to invest in the project, to
collaborations in different areas as realization, soundtrack, web
support and promotion.
The basic plan of this project is to develop an animated short film,
from March 1st 2007 to August 1st 2007. In this period (5 months) the
website will be showing frequent updates of the development of this
film, news and other materials and support. Besides a pre-order and a
donations sections. All the content of this site will be released under
the Creative Commons Attribution license, so this material could be
distributed for everyone.
All the people that pre-order the DVD in this period (March 1st 2007 to
August 1st 2007) will have a special credit in the film and a
preferential price.
You can donate trough Paypal and choose the amount of your secure
donation.This help would be really appreciated and this also will have
special credits in the final cut.
The official release date will be September 14 2007, and the DVD will
contain all the material generated trough the production. Besides the
short film, All the material will be under some of the Creative Commons
Attribution licenses.
OM Animation Studios and MURNAU project, hopes the acceptance and
support of the growing community of the digital animation world.
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SYNOPSIS
Count Murnau, a wealthy eccentric from the Carpathian region
wishes to buy a property in Hannover
Germany, the real state agency
sends Mr. Dohart, his best sales
representative to close the deal,
but Dohart never gets back. The real
state agency sends the young and
newlywed Hutter to take care of this
matter, and he parts alone to
Transilvanya leaving his wife Ellen
waiting for his return.
When he gets to the castle, Hutter
begins to uncover the terrible
secret of the Count, Murnau is a vampire!
And a eerie connection begins to
surface between the Count,
Dohart and his wife Ellen.
The Count Murnau retains Hutter
against his will inside his castle,
as he begins the journey to his newly acquired property in Hannover,
close to Ellen.
Hutter escapes the dangers from the
castle as he begins a deadly race
to stop Murnau.
Hutter arrives only to discover the
count settled in his new property
as he tries to seduce Ellen who suddenly fails to a strange disease.
Hutter contacts Dr.Shvert an old
master of the dark sciences,
could this two stop the journey of the Count in time?
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