Still from The Johnny Cash Project by Chris Milk

Chris Milk, creator of The Wilderness Downtown for the Arcade Fire’s latest album, has another incredible interactive Web music video project.  The Johnny Cash Project is a collaborative animated video for Cash’s “Ain’t No Grave,” made up of frames submitted by fans all over the world.

Still from the user created Johnny Cash Project

Still from The Johnny Cash Project

The project gives fans a frame of video to digitally rotoscope using an application built into the website.  The artist can create a frame as abstract or as realistic as they choose. When played together, the resulting video is a trembling and pulsating animation made up of thousands of individually drawn frames.

Still from The Johnny Cash Project

I love the collaborative aspect of the project and the resulting video is a gorgeous and engaging tribute to an iconic musician.