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Ryan Williams writes:

In January or February (08), my friend Mike Salva asked me if I wanted to participate in a project that he was offered. One of the CEO bigwigs at Adobe had come across Mike's cartoon feature "Max The Hero" and was interested in hiring someone to produce some introductory 'bumpers' for a conference in April.  He commissioned Mike to do 3 pieces: one for each day of the conference. His idea, according to Mike, was to do something broadly funny but simple- maybe get a few public domain movie clips form some classic monster movies and overdub some Adobe-related dialogue to them.

Mike & I met for a few lunches and kicked around some funny ideas. Mike, being an amateur animator, wanted one of the three pieces to be a full cartoon. He found out that Night of The Living Dead and Little Shop Of Horrors were both public-domain, and I watched them with the sound turned off and came up with a few goofy ideas for bits, along with Mike.

Sean Parrott  got involved when I invited him to lend his voice to the proceedings. We recorded some goofy banter into Mike's magical voice-and-soul-capturing device for about an hour and Mike produced the results one-by-one over the course of a few weeks.

The Night Of The Living Dead bit opened the conference. The guy in the end who is gnawing on a leg is Russell Brown himself.

To learn more about the work of Mike Salva, visit ProjectMeatball.com.