"The Visitor" - short film character development

"The Visitor" is an animated horror short I am currently writing, with a mind to directing and animating it over the summer. I got the idea after my Nosferatu-style animation tests (previously blogged about here and here), and will be presented in the style of the 1922 classic.

The story is a twist on the events in Stoker's Dracula novel and it's derivative works, such as Nosferatu. As a huge fan of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, I am styling my vampire count after Max Shreck, who played Count Orlock (the Dracula character) in the film:



I am considering a trip to Orvana castle in Slovakia, where Nosferatu was shot, to collect textures and ideas for backgrounds, as part of my pre-production for the film.