Gothic Stop-Motion Skeleton Town

"A gothic stop-motion-style animation inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas. A small, crooked town under a pale full moon, houses twisted and asymmetrical, fog crawling through cobblestone streets. A lonely skeleton boy walks slowly carrying a flickering lantern that glows with a faint blue flame. The camera pans through the deserted square filled with carved pumpkins and creaking wind vanes. Eerie violins and distant whispers fill the atmosphere. The boy stops as the lantern flickers violently — he looks up, something is watching. (End with a close-up of the lantern shaking — transition to next scene starts inside its glow.)"