Night of the Wombat

Night of the Wombat was the third YouTube short by Ziraxia. It was their first attempt at an animated commercial.

Characters

 * Wombats

Tagline
''In a field of dreams, they came from the ground. At first it was just one, then they wouldn't stop coming. Wombat eat baby... buy a T-shirt...''

Plot
The video is formatted like a cheesy B-movie horror trailer. It starts with a camera pan over an idyllic green field. Some on-screen text appears, reading in a field of dreams... they came from the ground... A close-up of a zombie wombat's eye flashes. An animated one appears in the field, running toward the camera. At first it was just one, then they wouldn't stop coming. A bunch of wombats do the same as the first. Some close-ups of crying kids and screaming people are shown. The trailer reveals itself to be a T-shirt ad: Wombat eat baby... buy a T-shirt. The first wombat appears again, this time on a logo that reads "Night of the Wombat."

Trivia

 * It would seem that Ziraxia wanted to do more videos with the wombats at one point in 2008. They made a whole website called The Daily Wombat, and character names like "Fuzzy Wombat" and "Wombat King" appeared on Ziraxia.com. None of these were ever referenced in a video and they look to be abandoned projects, possibly scrapped in favor of other animation-related shorts like Section 8 and Cthoobi.