Thirteen-year-old Nick Mastrangelo from Maverick Animation has put together this short, animated video featuring Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) of AMC’s The Walking Dead.The fan-favorite, crossbow-wielding hero is set to meet up with his brother Merle in Woodbury on Sunday’s midseason finale, “Made to Suffer,” but between now and then he apparently needed to take a quick break to rock out.The video has actually been floating around for about a month but has taken on a second life thanks to the folks at Sci Fi Now taking an interest.Here’s how Mastrangelo describes the video in its YouTube notes:
I’m an 8th grader in middle school, and I want to become an Animation filmmaker. I love sci fi films! I’m a fan of Tim Burton and Brad Bird. I love adventure orchestral music too.Just for fun over the summer, I decided to make an animation music video inspired by Norman Reedus’ character “Daryl Dixon” of The Walking Dead tv show on AMC. I chose Daryl Dixon because he’s a fan favorite, changed into a positive dude the group can now count on, and i just HAD to do a story about that crossbow of his! So I made the story kinda “Walking Dead” meets “Indiana Jones”.I mostly like Comedy oriented stories about aliens, cyborgs, and robots, (Monsters vs Aliens, The Incredibles, etc..) so making this short film was different for me. And basically I liked the song a lot and was looking for something “heavy” to use it on. So a “zombie themed” film seemed like the right fit. Thanks for watching – – play it loud & enjoy!I’m glad to see that the majority of my new fans have been entertained and enjoyed the wild ride, kinda like a video game. Looks like people mostly focused on the colors i used, the background settings, music i picked, zombie movement, etc…. and haven’t been too fussy about the gore and violence of the video. (FYI: the squirrel scene is an inside joke from Seasons 1 & 2 and so I wanted to show a goofball way on how the map of the “legendary crossbow” was found.) People have seen my other films and so they know that I’m growing as an artist.
