I know this was made quite a while ago, but I just wanted to say that this story is one of my favorite from Lovecraft, and you adapted it perfectly! The stop-motion puppetry is something that I never even considered before, and it works so well! I always liked how the Earthen Gods couldn't keep an old man from finding them at the top of a mountain, and had to tell on him to Nyarlathotep and Friends.
Thank you :) I am, of course, dedicated to the craft of stop-motion, simply because I just like the look and feel of it. But I also think that it can be used as a great tool for both telling stories and achieving atmosphere.
bluworm When it comes to one guy staring at shub niggurath and nyarlathotep making out since they're a married couple joins in on their anniversery, OH BOY HE'S IN FOR A MADDENING TREAT!
Wow...so many great effects. The main room was wonderfully decorated. The costumes were super great. Some of the rock climbing shots really looked great. The puppets showed up in full force and were grand. They were pretty scary beasts. This is a very well-put together little film. Congrats to everyone involved.
Another H.P.Lovecraft for all to enjoy, with some more narration from myself. Some truly wonderful animation work in this one :D Can't wait to do more!!!
I love how this feels like one of those old cheesy Christian shows from the 80s and 90s. Like if Lovecraft was a real religion these would be the kind of shorts we would have to teach kids not to fuck with the Outer Gods. And instead of Bible Man we'd have Necronomicon Man.
I am a huge Lovecraft fan with a very visual imagination. I have read and re-read his stories since I was a teenager. You do a great job of bringing his stories to life, keeping true to the original spirit of the stories. I think Lovecraft would be well pleased with your work. I look forward with anticipation to seeing more from you in the future.
+David Wilbanks Many thanks! My adaptations are far from perfect, but I want to show that you can reach quite far even with a tiny budget and small resources. I love the exotic ideas and cosmic scope of Lovecraft's imagination, and that's what i want to try and capture. There are more Lovecraftian stuff in the works, so keep a look out :)
As a lifelong Lovecraftian, I have imagined some pretty strange stuff while reading the stories numerous times over the years. And in my miss-spent youth, I had done just about every drug there was to be had at least once. But THIS is a mind-fuck of the highest order! I shall now have the one thing I have never had -- NIGHTMARES!! Well done!
This is the first of the beautiful world's created by Seven that I knew of. In the past years, thru loss grief joy and simply growing older, I have had a place to go when I need a break from reality. Thank you Sven.
That's high praise indeed; thanks! I hope to make more strange worlds for you to explore :) It's Richard, not Sven -but I don't mind :) Sven was my granddad.
Sorry! I momentarily forgot how Reddit organizes its sub-reddits. There are a couple of Lovecraftian sub-reddits, but the BIGGIE is found at www.reddit.com/r/lovecraft
I love this channel. How I've never seen any of this before in a decade on UA-cam I don't know, but this channel deserves way more than just 12.4k subs.
Many thanks! :) I don't have big resources to work with, but I like traditional visual effects, and I try to emulate the look of older fantasy films, as well as being inspired by various illustrators.
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I'm just discovering this channel and I have to say it: I'm more than amazed, I'm gob-smacked! This is absolutely marvellous.
This is so spectacularly done. Playful but engrossing and so simply enjoyable i return month after month and year after year... something very magical is here
Not sure about the others, but maybe: 5:28 Nyarlathotep 5:57 Yog-Sothoth (?) 6:03 The Twin Blasphemies 6:16 Shub-Niggurath (?) I liked the surrealism of the gods.
You're pretty correct in your suggestions. I didn't really plan to make any definitive gods, but let's say these puppets could be either this one or that one. Yog -Sothoth is at 5:49 (in the background). The ones at 5:57 and 6:03 are generic eldritch monstrosities.
Thank you for replying. Still, even if the gods do not match 1:1 with Lovecraft's they are quite eldritch and surreal, overall I enjoyed this short video.
@@Flash_345 Great job on replying to a 3 year old comment! Congratulations! [/Sarcasm] All the same: Who cares? He did describe some of them a bit to give a *vague* idea of what they looked like, and others expanded upon this. I was referring to those mythos depictions at large, and guessing mostly out of fun. I do not know why you are making such a big deal out of that.
I don't know what to say. It was clearly done on a little budget but it was so high concept and the pacing, puppets and dialogue were fantastic. This was an incredibly faithful film to Lovecraft's writing. It is startling that Hollywood has has a hundred years and has been largely unable to do justice to Lovecraft' and here somebody with a green screen and some animation skills totally nails the original story.
Thank you! You can only make an adaptation as you see it, and this is how I saw it. What I was hoping to capture was what fantasy was back in the days of Lovecraft, when the genre was still being molded, and was very influenced by the Orient. That vintage type of fantasy is almost forgotten today, but you can see snippets of it in the various comic and movie adaptations of the Conan stories. And I wanted to show that it can actually be done with virtually no money and with simple equipment. I'm glad you were entertained by it :)
Sorry I missed this before. This an amazing work beautifully made, the sets greenscreen work and wonderful amazing models and stopmotion are very creative and of a high standard. The actors do a great job and the costumes are a delight,nice script and voiceover the narrative moves along at a nice pace well done Richard this is one of your best. Bernie
I like the stop-motion animation. It still has that magical and creepy effect on viewers like me. This video reminds me of Ray Harryhausen's works. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I think stop-motion and Lovecraft's creatures were made for each other :) Making you think of Harryhausen (one of my heroes) is a great compliment.
Thanks! We actually didn't put much effort into this as we were filming it, since the space in our green screen "studio" was very cramped, and the lighting set-up very simple. The result is what it is, and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
greetings from Boston and Providence so it's Halloween night what else would I be doing except watching some of the best claymation HP Lovecraft stories ever made LOL I miss you brother I hope you working hard on all kinds of new stuff Rudy. I'm actually sitting here with a new friend who I turned on to some of your videos and quite sure she like them as much as I do brother you capture the essence of Lovecraft like no one else. I know I promised you it's been a really tough year I actually got hurt at work so it's been tough for me to get around but I want to go down to Providence and do a shot or at least send you the thumb drive with a bunch of really really cool shots of Providence so you have a much better idea of what it looked like then and now but until then Happy Halloween my friend I love you work keep doing it and just know there's those of us out here. Just so appreciate what you do your true artist thank you so much love you bro Rudy
Hello Rudy! There's no rush with the photos. It would be nice to have eventually, if I choose to go really into Lovecraft country :) Sorry to hear that life's not treating you the kindest way. Nowadays I'm very busy juggling two day jobs, and sometimes they spill over into the weekends. So it's not easy to be active here on UA-cam. But yes; I am working on new projects whenever I can find the time. Hope you had a great Halloween, and thanks for spreading the word about my stuff!
Gorgeous animation, as always! For some reason, the tangible horror of your stop-motion gribblies will always be more scary to me than any hollywood CGI monster!
I know I’m pretty late to finding this but for a homemade video, you crafted something enjoyable. Barzai the wise’s palace was really well crafted set. The climbing shots were well done, and I a a sucker for claymation and practical effects so I loved the gods. They were nightmarish but beautiful in their own right. I will be checking out your other works! You got a subscriber!
+Yeeksquilack Thanks! My intitial idea was to make this black & white, but I though all the bright colors would better produce the sense of delierium I was aiming at.
I think your channel is what mine would be if i didn't do let's plays, had more money, had actual talent, had friends, and knew how to stop motion animate.
You're pretty right about all of those resources being available to me, except for the money. These videos are made very, very cheaply. BUT I'm lucky to have cosplaying and LARPing friends who allow me to ransack their wardrobes when necessary :)
iv watched a few of these amateur type films and I have to say, there really starting to grow on me. there's a kind of appealing simplicity to them that big budget Hollywood movies just don't have.
While your stop-motion is gorgeous (As always), I do wish you'd try to integrate the lighting on the actors with the lighting scheme of the green-screen backdrops a bit more naturaly-looking-ly, if you get what I mean.
Though, I will say, the lighting on the actors looks more natural near the end than in the beginning. Did you shoot this in order of plot and try and tinker with your techniques as you went along? Also, any chance of you ever trying to collaborate with Lee Hardcastle? I'd love to see you two try your hands at making a Harryhausen-type stop-motion feature-length creature-feature together!
Thomas Johnson Yes, you're certainly right about the lighting. My set up is as primitive as it can be and we were working in a very cramped space. I'm trying to fix that for the next project. If the look grows better towards the end it's a complete coincidence :)
Thanks :) It's basically a fable or fairy tale by Lovecraft, inspired by Lord Dunsany's writings, so it's not really scary at all, but it does have its moments.
Imagine adapting your own version of thˋ "Hitchhikers Guide Across The Galaxy"! Not that I hated it’s movie adaptation but your spin on it might look even more accurate to its Source Material given your Imagination and Douglas Adamses
I actually really liked the movie adaptation, and it was, apparently, approved by Douglas Adams himself. Making short films based on the hitchhiker universe would be excellent fun, but you know.. Copyrights and all.
Great work! I always want to know what do "Gods of Earth" look like. I wonder if some of the gods from real world mythologies actually included as members of "God's of Earth". Put that aside, the original work gives me a vibe similar to Lord Dunsany's works, especially Gods of Pegana , albeit darker.
Thanks! I think this avatar of Nyarlathotep actually first appeared either in a game or in a supplemental game book. Now it's so iconic, and I had to include it here :)
Late to the party here, but just a heads-up: When "learned" is used as an adjective it is pronounced "Learn-ed", with the "ed" sounding like in "Driver's Ed".
and twas true what H. P. Lovecraft said "We live on a placid island in the midst of a black sea of infinity, and it was not meant that we should travel far.."
Nice version of Nyarlathotep in his Bloody Tongue guise! I always thought of the Gods of Earth as being humanoid - much like Zeus and co - but this works too, and it's great to see a different interpretation. There's a great contrast between the ethereal, radiant gods of Earth, and the more harshly defined Other Gods.
+Phil Smith My original plan was actually to have the Gods of the Earth as humanoids, but then I decided I wanted something much more abstract, but beautiful. The Other Gods were always going to be stop-motion monstrosities to totally set them apart. Glad you enjoyed it :)
I know this was made quite a while ago, but I just wanted to say that this story is one of my favorite from Lovecraft, and you adapted it perfectly! The stop-motion puppetry is something that I never even considered before, and it works so well! I always liked how the Earthen Gods couldn't keep an old man from finding them at the top of a mountain, and had to tell on him to Nyarlathotep and Friends.
Thank you :) I am, of course, dedicated to the craft of stop-motion, simply because I just like the look and feel of it. But I also think that it can be used as a great tool for both telling stories and achieving atmosphere.
"Oh merciful gods, I am falling into the sky!"
The Other Gods, Lovecraft
All I see is shub niggurath, nyarlathotep, Azathoth and the other gods having a good time it's one big lovecraft party! :D
It just takes that one guy to crash and ruin a party..
bluworm When it comes to one guy staring at shub niggurath and nyarlathotep making out since they're a married couple joins in on their anniversery, OH BOY HE'S IN FOR A MADDENING TREAT!
Nyarlathotep : Barack Obama. Uuuuh you can’t just come in here and interrupt the party , the DJ just got HERE!
6:11 It won't be a party without somebody kissing. ;)
Otherwise known as "Grandpa's adventure with illegal narcotics and the occult!"
so, basically what Hitler's Grandchildren were told about Germany between the years of 1930 to 1945?
Come on morty, top of the mountain, we'll be in and out no problem.
Lmao
Now that's an adventure I can get with !
This series is so entertaining, charming like TV sci-fi from the 70
Glad you liked it :)
Wow...so many great effects. The main room was wonderfully decorated. The costumes were super great. Some of the rock climbing shots really looked great. The puppets showed up in full force and were grand. They were pretty scary beasts. This is a very well-put together little film. Congrats to everyone involved.
Thanks! As always we had fun making it, and as always it creaks in places. But that's the plight of the amateur filmmaker (if it's a plight at all).
bluworm
Yeah but the acting is weird in this one
But I have no complaints
This is a great depiction of lovecraft
Love it
bluworm
And I love the way you animate the creatures
Sarcasm I assume
This looks like one of those low budget films they showed me when I was 7 to teach me about mythology mixed with a John Carpenter flick...
Keep it up
I'm keeping it up :)
Another H.P.Lovecraft for all to enjoy, with some more narration from myself. Some truly wonderful animation work in this one :D
Can't wait to do more!!!
Thanks, John! I'll get back to you when new stuff is in the works. Maybe you'd be interested in narrating something other that Lovecraft?
It would be a pleasure :)
You succeeded in pronouncing words that are out of this world. Well done.
The depictions of the Elder Gods, in this, are phenomenal. I always love seeing people bring these horrors to life. Please make more.
Thanks! In my mind, the stop-mo animation technique makes the Lovecraftian critters creepier. More projects are on the way :)
I love how this feels like one of those old cheesy Christian shows from the 80s and 90s. Like if Lovecraft was a real religion these would be the kind of shorts we would have to teach kids not to fuck with the Outer Gods.
And instead of Bible Man we'd have Necronomicon Man.
I'd watch Necronomicon Man anytime! :)
@Patrick Brumm The difference would be that Davie would lose by just looking at it
bluworm Davy aNd Goliath But Arthur Machen >.>
I'm pretty sure this particular story was inspired by the Christian tales like the tower of babble.
You Leave Christian Shows Out of It.
I believe this is the first Lone Animator production I found, and it remains a favorite.
Thanks! It's a very old upload, so I get that :)
Egg claw? Egg mountain? MASTER MUSTARD? Hilarious chapter names.
Edit: The video turned out to be hilarious as well.
Wow! Another amazing video! Well done! Going to check out more.
Thanks for watching!
I am a huge Lovecraft fan with a very visual imagination. I have read and re-read his stories since I was a teenager. You do a great job of bringing his stories to life, keeping true to the original spirit of the stories. I think Lovecraft would be well pleased with your work. I look forward with anticipation to seeing more from you in the future.
+David Wilbanks Many thanks! My adaptations are far from perfect, but I want to show that you can reach quite far even with a tiny budget and small resources. I love the exotic ideas and cosmic scope of Lovecraft's imagination, and that's what i want to try and capture. There are more Lovecraftian stuff in the works, so keep a look out :)
As a lifelong Lovecraftian, I have imagined some pretty strange stuff while reading the stories numerous times over the years. And in my miss-spent youth, I had done just about every drug there was to be had at least once. But THIS is a mind-fuck of the highest order! I shall now have the one thing I have never had -- NIGHTMARES!! Well done!
I'm so glad I could give you nightmares! :) As Ray Harryhausen said: "Nightmares are good for you; they cleanse the soul."
This is the first of the beautiful world's created by Seven that I knew of. In the past years, thru loss grief joy and simply growing older, I have had a place to go when I need a break from reality. Thank you Sven.
That's high praise indeed; thanks! I hope to make more strange worlds for you to explore :)
It's Richard, not Sven -but I don't mind :) Sven was my granddad.
I'm so sorry I think my sleepy pills were kicking in. But Sven is such a s%xy name. I'll bet your grandpa was amazing too.
Knowing the actors were filmed in a living room with a green blanket for the green screen makes is so much fun.
A really small and crowded room at that! :)
I just shared this on the Lovecraft subreddit, and the folks there are LOVING it. It's made it to the top of the heap already!
+Mark Thibodeau Why, thank you! I really appreciate that. Maybe I should do some more, then..
Fore sure! And don't forget to promote them on reddit.com/Lovecraft!
+Mark Thibodeau Can you re-send that link? The one I got doesn't lead anywhere.
Sorry! I momentarily forgot how Reddit organizes its sub-reddits. There are a couple of Lovecraftian sub-reddits, but the BIGGIE is found at www.reddit.com/r/lovecraft
+Mark Thibodeau Thanks! :)
Exactly how I imagined it
+Tar Alacrin That's the best compliment I could hope for!
Golden comment
I dunno how many times I've watched this. I can never get tired of it
Great! Thanks :)
I love this channel. How I've never seen any of this before in a decade on UA-cam I don't know, but this channel deserves way more than just 12.4k subs.
Glad you enjoyed my stuff; Thanks :) I'm very happy for my subscribers, but wouldn't mind more.
U guys are rockstars haha ! Love it thank you for putting in the effort to bring us fun adaptations
Thanks! We rock on :)
Outstanding!! An extremely superb adaptation of Lovecraft's work. Puts the others to shame, despite it's being very short..
Many thanks! :) I don't have big resources to work with, but I like traditional visual effects, and I try to emulate the look of older fantasy films, as well as being inspired by various illustrators.
I'm just discovering this channel and I have to say it: I'm more than amazed, I'm gob-smacked! This is absolutely marvellous.
+René Bartholemy Many thanks for your kind comments! My film projects are labors of love, and I always hope that shines through.
+bluworm It does! ;)
This is so spectacularly done. Playful but engrossing and so simply enjoyable i return month after month and year after year... something very magical is here
Thanks! I'm glad you think it still holds up :)
The Dreamlands prove to be a dangerous place, even for the experienced dreamer.
The Dreamlands seem to be, mostly, a horrible place!
Not sure about the others, but maybe:
5:28 Nyarlathotep
5:57 Yog-Sothoth (?)
6:03 The Twin Blasphemies
6:16 Shub-Niggurath (?)
I liked the surrealism of the gods.
You're pretty correct in your suggestions. I didn't really plan to make any definitive gods, but let's say these puppets could be either this one or that one. Yog -Sothoth is at 5:49 (in the background). The ones at 5:57 and 6:03 are generic eldritch monstrosities.
Thank you for replying. Still, even if the gods do not match 1:1 with Lovecraft's they are quite eldritch and surreal, overall I enjoyed this short video.
@@11RisingPhoenix Yes Lovecraft clearly drew them to show exactly what they looked like and did not leave it to the readers' imagination AT ALL.
@@Flash_345 Great job on replying to a 3 year old comment! Congratulations! [/Sarcasm]
All the same: Who cares? He did describe some of them a bit to give a *vague* idea of what they looked like, and others expanded upon this. I was referring to those mythos depictions at large, and guessing mostly out of fun. I do not know why you are making such a big deal out of that.
@@Flash_345 Yeah right 🤣
Thank you so much for animating this beautiful Lovecraft piece. You've put a lot of effort into it. Really amazing!
Thanks for watching it :)
I don't know what to say. It was clearly done on a little budget but it was so high concept and the pacing, puppets and dialogue were fantastic. This was an incredibly faithful film to Lovecraft's writing. It is startling that Hollywood has has a hundred years and has been largely unable to do justice to Lovecraft' and here somebody with a green screen and some animation skills totally nails the original story.
Thank you! You can only make an adaptation as you see it, and this is how I saw it. What I was hoping to capture was what fantasy was back in the days of Lovecraft, when the genre was still being molded, and was very influenced by the Orient. That vintage type of fantasy is almost forgotten today, but you can see snippets of it in the various comic and movie adaptations of the Conan stories. And I wanted to show that it can actually be done with virtually no money and with simple equipment. I'm glad you were entertained by it :)
MST3K would have a field day with this gem.
I'm so glad the cowboy on the rhino was the intro, and not one of Lovecraft's other gods. LOL
+The Fart Song Triceratops dinosaur, not rhino :)
bluworm
Oh, my bad. Yes. :)
+Paradigm Zer0
your name used to be The Fart Song.
that is all.
Robert Paulson
That is correct...
+Paradigm Zer0
**chuckles**
I'm so excited I found this channel.. such talent and vision. Everything about your work is my cup of tea.
+sillypinkewe Many thanks! :D I hope you'll enjoy my upcoming projects.
100%
So good to see something true to the books! And the clay animation was AWESOME!
Very well done! I loved it!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)
That was amazingly done good sir, the Other Gods is one of my favorite Lovecraft short stories. I love your film version. :)
+Marcel Edel Thank you! I like the story too, but I couldn't resist making my own version of the basic story.
That was marvelous. Quite well done, with a killer punchline!
Sorry I missed this before. This an amazing work beautifully made, the sets greenscreen work and wonderful amazing models and stopmotion are very creative and of a high standard. The actors do a great job and the costumes are a delight,nice script and voiceover the narrative moves along at a nice pace well done Richard this is one of your best. Bernie
Mujawooja Channel Thanks, Bernie! :) This was a fun project, and I really liked the story -like a dark, cautionary fairy tale. Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow you guys are amazing please make more the quality only gets better and better!
Thanks! More is coming :)
He Was Warned.
Some people just don't listen.
. . . *Awesomeness ... Reposting this in the official H.P. Lovecraft Society page in facebookland. B(e)ast wishes, always!*
Thanks for spreading the word! I appreciate it.
Excellent work & great adaptation of Lovecraft's story, I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Thank you; glad you enjoyed it :) Please consider subscribing, if you already haven't.
Excellent job I can't wait for Lovecrafts other stories.
Thank you! More is on the way.
Check out "harry potter" lol
Bryan Miller is’nt he dead now?
Katey Faygo no
DYLAN CHEN he is dead, but there are hundreds of stories, as after his death people continued the work he started
Amazing. You make the best Lovecraft animations I've ever seen. It's as if you are Lovecraft himself!
Thanks! My grandpop actually looked a bit like Lovecraft. Maybe it's something in the genes after all..
I like the stop-motion animation. It still has that magical and creepy effect on viewers like me. This video reminds me of Ray Harryhausen's works. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I think stop-motion and Lovecraft's creatures were made for each other :) Making you think of Harryhausen (one of my heroes) is a great compliment.
This is great! looking forward to more. awesome stop motion and models
Thanks! I'm working on lots more.
Really awesome work. Nice to see some different takes on camera angles and camera shake, and the puppets looked amazing
Thanks! We actually didn't put much effort into this as we were filming it, since the space in our green screen "studio" was very cramped, and the lighting set-up very simple. The result is what it is, and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Fantastic! Those creatures and the dimensional rip visuals; exactly what come to mind when I read Lovecraft's work. A++
blixx66 Very nice of you; thanks for watching :)
Barzai thought he was Moses climbing Mount Horeb
😂😂😂😂😂
No gods, dark or otherwise, take kindly to hubris.
greetings from Boston and Providence so it's Halloween night what else would I be doing except watching some of the best claymation HP Lovecraft stories ever made LOL I miss you brother I hope you working hard on all kinds of new stuff Rudy. I'm actually sitting here with a new friend who I turned on to some of your videos and quite sure she like them as much as I do brother you capture the essence of Lovecraft like no one else. I know I promised you it's been a really tough year I actually got hurt at work so it's been tough for me to get around but I want to go down to Providence and do a shot or at least send you the thumb drive with a bunch of really really cool shots of Providence so you have a much better idea of what it looked like then and now but until then Happy Halloween my friend I love you work keep doing it and just know there's those of us out here. Just so appreciate what you do your true artist thank you so much love you bro Rudy
Hello Rudy! There's no rush with the photos. It would be nice to have eventually, if I choose to go really into Lovecraft country :) Sorry to hear that life's not treating you the kindest way. Nowadays I'm very busy juggling two day jobs, and sometimes they spill over into the weekends. So it's not easy to be active here on UA-cam. But yes; I am working on new projects whenever I can find the time. Hope you had a great Halloween, and thanks for spreading the word about my stuff!
I've waited a long time for this and its brilliant as usual!
***** Glad you enjoyed it! :D
Gorgeous animation, as always! For some reason, the tangible horror of your stop-motion gribblies will always be more scary to me than any hollywood CGI monster!
Thanks! I think the animations of Jan Svankmajer, for example, out-creeps anything conjured up in a computer.
Your short films are masterpieces.
Thank you so much! :)
Fantastiskt! Jag blir alltid lika glad när jag ser att du har laddat upp nåt nytt! Animationerna är helt underbara. :)
blindekillen Tackar så mycket! Jag ska försöka bli mer produktiv under 2015. Förra året var jag väldigt upptagen med mitt jobb.
I know I’m pretty late to finding this but for a homemade video, you crafted something enjoyable. Barzai the wise’s palace was really well crafted set. The climbing shots were well done, and I a a sucker for claymation and practical effects so I loved the gods. They were nightmarish but beautiful in their own right. I will be checking out your other works! You got a subscriber!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. This tends to be a polarizing video; the hate and love is about 50-50. Thanks for subscribing! :)
we need to have a lovecraftian party. sometime soon. or they will come
Gosh damn that was the scariest and most disturbing thing I've seen all day.
+Aldazier Madrik Glad to hear that :)
Mixing the bright light patterns with the creepy claymation models actually yields a pretty cool effect.
+Yeeksquilack Thanks! My intitial idea was to make this black & white, but I though all the bright colors would better produce the sense of delierium I was aiming at.
I am always impressed with your work. It is extremely well done. Hope you get to do this full time one day!
Thanks! Working full time with this has been my dream since I was a kid. In other words, the future does not look promising. But you never know :)
Give me imagination over special effects. You know how to bring these stories to life.
Thanks! Imagination is dangerously underrated nowadays.
Love the style , keep up the good work guys.
Thanks! We will :)
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I think your channel is what mine would be if i didn't do let's plays, had more money, had actual talent, had friends, and knew how to stop motion animate.
You're pretty right about all of those resources being available to me, except for the money. These videos are made very, very cheaply. BUT I'm lucky to have cosplaying and LARPing friends who allow me to ransack their wardrobes when necessary :)
hehe.
Wow, this was simply amazing.
Thanks for watching :)
iv watched a few of these amateur type films and I have to say, there really starting to grow on me. there's a kind of appealing simplicity to them that big budget Hollywood movies just don't have.
I think the amateur Lovecraft is pretty un-filtered. There are no board meetings where money people decide what's good for a film.
This is great as usual
Thank you!
This was surprisingly well made for a home film
Well, it is what it is :)
The little Aladdin dude knew this was a bad idea but the old wizard was a bully
The wizard suffered from hubris, which is what this tale's all about. Don't think you'd be welcome in the company of the gods.
I thoroughly enjoyed that. I love your style. Hope you do more.
Thanks! More is in the works :)
would be cool also if you did Cats of Ulthar. where are the cats here by the way? :)
In retrospect I should've added a few cats to the tower "set".
I like to imagine that the gods of Earth are only beautiful to us and the Outer gods find them repulsive and odd.
I'd say that was a logical assumption.
Hey,
Thanks for making this! I'm just getting into the love craft wrold and this was good. I will show it to friends.
Thanks for watching and spreading the word about the film! We did a few changes in the story, but I'm glad you liked it just the same.
FANTASTIC! I hope that you will make other transpositions of Lovecraft's tales.
+Marco Tosoni Thanks :) I'm working on a few, actually. "Dagon" is probably the one up next.
5:48 Godzilla playing the trumpet. I'm outta here.
There is this being called Azathoth who is sleeping and those things play on instruments to keep him asleep.
Ya because the whole universe is just a fever dream of his so when he wakes up everything ends.
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Some very nice and detailed stop-mo puppets there, very original! I like your style
C. Bee Thanks! I try to show what can be achieved on an absolute zero budget.
While your stop-motion is gorgeous (As always), I do wish you'd try to integrate the lighting on the actors with the lighting scheme of the green-screen backdrops a bit more naturaly-looking-ly, if you get what I mean.
Though, I will say, the lighting on the actors looks more natural near the end than in the beginning. Did you shoot this in order of plot and try and tinker with your techniques as you went along?
Also, any chance of you ever trying to collaborate with Lee Hardcastle? I'd love to see you two try your hands at making a Harryhausen-type stop-motion feature-length creature-feature together!
Thomas Johnson Yes, you're certainly right about the lighting. My set up is as primitive as it can be and we were working in a very cramped space. I'm trying to fix that for the next project. If the look grows better towards the end it's a complete coincidence :)
Nice work on the acting out and using whatever had to recreate the vision when it appeared during hallucination.
Thanks; it's a labor of love :)
That Nyarlarthotep animation is just straight badass.
Wow! Very nice. Great mix of animation/live-action.. Thanks for sharing
Really glad you enjoyed it! :)
A marvelous (and at moments humorous) dark psychedelic trip......
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I also wanna say i love these short films.
Thanks!
Quite enjoyed it. Told the story well. And definitely got creepier as it went along.
Thanks :) It's basically a fable or fairy tale by Lovecraft, inspired by Lord Dunsany's writings, so it's not really scary at all, but it does have its moments.
Great job! Agree with previous positive comments. Keep up the good work! Regards.
Thank you! :)
This was really cool animation. I loved it. 🙂 thanks
Thanks for watching! :)
This was amazing, do you have any more videos like this? You are very talented.
Thanks! :) Yes, I have many more Lovecraftian / cosmic horror videos on my channel.
@@TheLoneAnimator You should consider joining hollywood, not many good lovecraft movies out there. Your short films are more interesting.
Keeping stop motion alive!
I'm doing my best :D
A Good short movie.Fantastic!!!
+Bartolomé Salas Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)
Good Azathoth. I saw A for real once. Teeth made of black holes and quasars, spinning, eating, making. Not an idiot, but supremely aware.
You have a good idea of making something look otherworldly the swirls and colors on my top!
It's a cheap trick, but I'm glad you think it works :)
No fool like an old fool....
True then and now, I guess.
Imagine adapting your own version of thˋ "Hitchhikers Guide Across The Galaxy"!
Not that I hated it’s movie adaptation but your spin on it might look even more accurate to its Source Material given your Imagination and Douglas Adamses
I actually really liked the movie adaptation, and it was, apparently, approved by Douglas Adams himself. Making short films based on the hitchhiker universe would be excellent fun, but you know.. Copyrights and all.
@@TheLoneAnimator good point, though it can still be seen as a big inspiration for future creations
love it as the past mini movie. i think you do the best adaptations of Lovecraft
fantom6150 Thank you! :) I do the best I can with the resources I have.
I liked It! I can see the effort put to It. Amatteur Acting is a difficult obstacle. Loved the stop-motion, well designed Other Gods
Well, it is what it is. I'm glad you were entertained :)
THe stop motion is super awesome.
Thanks! :)
Great work!
I always want to know what do "Gods of Earth" look like.
I wonder if some of the gods from real world mythologies actually included as members of "God's of Earth". Put that aside, the original work gives me a vibe similar to Lord Dunsany's works, especially Gods of Pegana , albeit darker.
I'm glad you mention Lord Dunsany, because he's another of my favorite fantasists :)
This is some very inspiring work. Loved the designs of the gods.
+Oblique Pictures yep...no need for me to post now...oops...too late.
+Oblique Pictures Thank you! Though the monstrous gods aren't nearly as monstrous as I'd like them to be.
Nyarlathotep looks awesome
This was awesome! Great job.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I love your depiction of Nyarlathotep I've seen it around on the internet but the stop motion adds an entirely new layer to it.
Thanks! I think this avatar of Nyarlathotep actually first appeared either in a game or in a supplemental game book. Now it's so iconic, and I had to include it here :)
It looks awesome dude! *finger guns*
Late to the party here, but just a heads-up: When "learned" is used as an adjective it is pronounced "Learn-ed", with the "ed" sounding like in "Driver's Ed".
Got it :)
and twas true what H. P. Lovecraft said
"We live on a placid island in the midst of a black sea of infinity, and it was not meant that we should travel far.."
I think old HP will be proven right, once we make that big leap out into the void.
Loved the presentation! Surprisingly creepy as well.
Thank you! Really glad you enoyed this :)
Great job! Really enjoy it :)
Thanks for stopping by and watching :D
Nice version of Nyarlathotep in his Bloody Tongue guise! I always thought of the Gods of Earth as being humanoid - much like Zeus and co - but this works too, and it's great to see a different interpretation. There's a great contrast between the ethereal, radiant gods of Earth, and the more harshly defined Other Gods.
+Phil Smith My original plan was actually to have the Gods of the Earth as humanoids, but then I decided I wanted something much more abstract, but beautiful. The Other Gods were always going to be stop-motion monstrosities to totally set them apart. Glad you enjoyed it :)