Bryant, in our conversation, reminded me about how this motion-capture animation technique, which Robert "I made a cool 80s time-travel movie using an extinct sports car" Zemeckis has been using for Beowulf and The Polar Express, makes the characters a bit weird because everything else is life-like but their eyes are lifeless. Hence, "creepy zombie movie."
Actually, motion-capture animation may remind Bryant of zombies, but it reminds me of my friend Lazarus Auyong, whom we love to call Laz The Spaz, or - because Auyong is effectively two words, "Au" and "Yong" - his other moniker, Laz-Y-Ong.
As you may have already guessed, Laz used to creep out the people in our office. Everything about him is life-like, but his eyes are lifeless. There used to be this horrible ghost story going around the office, about a terrifying ghost who sits at the stairwell behind the office building. They said the spectre appears in a cloud of mist, smells horrible and has the eyes of a corpse.
But, of course, we all knew it was Laz, because he loves to sit at the stairwell at night smoking his Sampoerna.
I wish I had a better photograph of Laz to show you, but this is the best I could come up with, because the guy is pretty elusive:
Here's another slgihtly better photo of Laz:
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