Dagon - HP Lovecraft
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2010
- Well it's 2 years since I made this film, with hindsight I really should not have shown the creature, what was I thinking..........duh. Anyway, hope you enjoy regardless!
Recommend watching this over at Vimeo :D www.vimeo.com/10281182
This is a story adapted from Dagon by HP Lovecraft.
Content credits are listed at the end of the film, with special mention to the pose creator, Del May, for creating so many unique and emotive poses (available at her shop in-world)
A very big thanks to Carlos, the narrator, for being a great voice artist, and also the easiest person in the world to get along with!
The initial idea for this animation/machinima was to create a weird horror film in a noir/comic style using a digital graphic novel format. However, as the film progressed, it took on a life of its own and became more of a traditional machinima film. It is also not nearly as weird as I had imagined.
Techie details: With the exception of the 2 images in the credits, no green screen has been used. Shaky bits are intentional. Pshop was used for the statue texture. No colour filters were used in this film, all colours were achieved within Second Life, including the washed out dream sequence (windlight fog). Shadows filmed with the Emerald Client. The particles of weather/fire/mist/pulsing sun were filmed inside SL.
*At the moment, I think the weakest point of the film is the ending, I do like the crazy episode and the walking shots. I will probably go back and redo the end scene at some point, when I figure out what it needs.
Sound was designed from the freesoundproject.org (available under creative commons). Attribution list here:
docs.google.com/View?id=df8fq6hr_238gc3vjtdn
Texture credits and linkbacks: (will link when I can get deviant art to work for me again). 
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The clipreel displaying the madness through disturbing images proves that you really understand Lovecraft.
Don't beat yourself up about your decision to show the creature. We had to see something, and you kept its appearance brief and vague enough. All in all, this a great adaptation.
I don't get how people come up with illustrations and fan art when Lovecraft himself barely even described the creatures in his stories.
Then again, that was probably the point. You can't describe the undescribeable.
I think Mr. Lovecraft would be pleased.
It provides a neat perspective, some nice attention to detail, great timing, and to the point.
Nicely done.
Lovecraft was amazing... you really don't know if the man just went insane, or if he really did see that island with the strange creature.
The John doe sign, it has been a long time since I've seen it.
The thing a lot of people tend to miss about Lovecraft's stories is that he had a penchant for not actually describing much of the horrors he thought up. It added to the mystery, and the terror, of the reader to allow their own imagination fill in the blanks. Dagon was no exception to that. I have always wondered what the great, black creature from the abyss would appear as, and this was a beautifully mastered answer. Thank you!
I think your attempt at this film, was really good. The narration was excellent and the graphics were very good. It was suspenseful and very enjoyable.
This is hands-down the greatest Lovecraft adaptation ever.
Considering the technical limitations of indie productions, I'd say this is one of the best adaptations ever of any of Lovecraft's stories. Good job!
Lovecraft and Allan Poe helped me a lot when I was learning english, they still do! I just look the meaning of the words I don't know.
Didn't Lovecraft described the creature in his story? I don't see how you could have made this without showing it. Besides, it would have been a let down. I wish film makers wouldn't try to be too clever for their own good. This was excellently done just as it stands.
varanid9 Hollywood has to ruin everything they touch show biz egos
varanid9 he did in pretty good detail too
I just bought the Necronomicon collection with a whole bunch of his stories and I can't stop reading! It's bloody brilliant!
Such a captivating work !
The ambiance is really stunning, one can feel the fear and the nightmare....
You put so high the machinima level !
Very cool. I think you captured the essence of Lovecraft's tale. :)
It's interesting to see how Lovecraft's imagery was so strong that I pictured this story in my head exactly the same way you did.
Bravo! I'd forgotten the very end, splendidly done.
That was pretty freakin awesome... When the creature made that sound I got chills
The voice of Dagon who harked back to the dolphin or a whale than I imagined it was lovely
This is shockingly well done. Congratulations :)
Hey! Saw this right after reading the story for the first time and found your adaptation very good! I think you did a great job! Congratulations!
Dagon, (and other such lovecraft stories), need to be made into a legit movie. Only problem is, I don't think there's a director out there ballsy enough to take on such a challenge.
Fantastic work! I enjoyed it thoroughly, and the voice acting was superb.
This is very well done, thank you for a great short film. The narration was awesome.
I've listened to a dozen or so of these lovecraft stories and they are more or less all the same story. It start with a man losing his sanity, then he recounts his experience on the ocean or some crypt with a squid like monster and then he either kills himself in the end, is killed by a monster, or gives a gloomy outlook on his life and implies he will be killed soon. It's such a bland formula once you see it repeat in every lovecraft story. But this video was done incredibly well. I like it.
Great! My favorite of these animated adaptions!! Very atmospheric and trippy!
Very well done! Great visuals, especially incorporating those not depicted in the story. I feel like you captured the overall dread that pervades Lovecraft's work.
Luckily, there are plenty of us who do understand it, who can appreciate the works in all their glory :).
This was very well made, I love Lovecraft!
Very well done, including the magnificent reading.
Is it strange that I had a dream about Shadow Over Innsmouth before I ever knew and heard about Lovecrafts work? I had this dream when I was around 8 or 9 y/o. And I dreamt it again back when I was 14 then I dream it again over and over just a week ago and last was last night, but last night was a little different because in the end of my dream the Deep Ones got me and made me like them. This all started before I even knew about H.P Lovecrafts stories. When I did heard about his story everything to me sounded familiar because it felt like I have been in it. I'm still weirded out a little bit until now.
this was well done overall, though the part where he was running made me laugh.
I'm seeing this video after some years, I really liked it, it translates HP Lovecraft ideas. Congratulations for your job.
Hard to put any Lovecraft to video, so good job. I mean how do you animate something that drives you mad and into drugs by just looking at it?
It's easy. Just look at all the income tax videos.
Just imagine: you live in a world that is told to be completely explored. You are cynicle way of thinking, you dont believe in storys like the loch ness Monster or the Yeti. You think you know everything you need to know.
And then, this happens. Think about it
Very well done! And showing the creature was NOT a mistake as It does make an appearance in the story. You showed just enough to intrigue the imagination and still remain mysterious.
Excellent scary movie with details which make a good impression. I like sea and madness scenes and I value a fact that author is keeping Lovecraft's novels spirit.
I absolutely loved this! And I loved the ending :p. Visually stunning and a fantastic voice actor aswell.
(P.S. those shadows rock!)
Although I enjoy the story in its totality, I think it is great how you reduced the first 'chapter' of the tale to propel it directly into the action. Whilst I agree with your comments that it is better if the monster if barely shown, I think the lead up to it produces significant tension. I also think that, considering how limited Second Life was at the time that you made this, you did an excellent job; sufficient that people can still enjoy it, twelve years later.
Beautiful to run into in 2017 :)
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Creeper: nice sssssstory you have there ;)
I am so glad you are back to storybased machinima, this is how I like you best! The way you blend art with the regular story telling format is so WOW!
Though, I thought the movie was bit lengthy & little slow in some parts or may be just me lolz Well sorry, after "The dumb man" crazy expectations follow... :]
Also I just loved how this one looks like an extended/highly improved version of my fav "1 min challenge - Sims' movie you had created!
Awesome. It's really close to the actual story. Congrats !
i had realized the volcanic island is infact... Devil's reef.
And the narrator of this story is none other than Douglas Williamson (Robert Olmstead's uncle that commited suicide).
@@redlibra1446 WOW. Lovecraft always knew his details! I'm surprised that notion had eluded me more subtly than all the other connections.
Someone should make a theory about that.
@@puffythedestroyer8878 But, with every theory, there's always holes in them, like:
-If the narrator is Douglas Williamson, why doesn't he mention the Marsh family?
-In "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", it's mentioned that Douglass killed himself by shooting himself in the head, not jumping off a building. Also, Robert never mentions anything about morphine when regarding Douglas.
-The narrator is a sea merchant and it's never stated what was Douglas' profession before he died (This point could still be possible. Considering the Marsh/Orne/Williamson/Olmstead family are a family of hybrids, their job professions might have something to do with the water in some way, like hydrology, or marine biology, or even a sea merchant. At the end of the day, we don't know and it's all up to interpretation, which is the beauty of cosmic horror. A lot of these things in Lovecraft's stories are left ambiguous, it's meant for our minds, as the reader, to fill in the blanks).
-Maybe Lovecraft forgot about some details in "Dagon", when he was developing the story for "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"? Maybe he intended for the narrator of Dagon to be mentioned somewhere in it but scrapped it? It's not uncommon for an author, who has been writing for as long as Lovecraft, to begin to forget some details from past works. I mean "Dagon" came out first in 1917, just 20 years before "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1937) and according to the Lovecraft wiki, "Dagon" foreshadows the events that happen in "Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
-Maybe it's possible or maybe it's all just a coincidence?
Bloody brilliant mate! Good on ya! Excellent adaptation!!
Mesmerizing from beginning to end!
Excellent in all aspects. The narration is inviting and captivating and the imagery a good blend of detail and subtlety - obscuring what needs to be kept shadowed. I have watched a number of projects here based on H. P. Lovecraft, as well as reading my own attempts on my own channel. This however has to be one of my favourites. Thank you for the effort you put into its creation.
Now we are three. The colors and the effects of the water are so real. You believe you are the protagonist
The sound effect adds perfect sense of terror
HOLY FUCK! Great video! This was the first story that I ever read by Lovecraft, and ever since then I've been hooked.
That imagery showed madness
Mr Lovecraft Dagon my all time fav kool concept bringing the story 2 life just amazing "esoteric dagon order "
Wow that sound actually scared me, good job
great work! if you see this. don't worry showing the creature isn't bad at all. you did great.
Excellent! Captures the story very well! Top Notch!
This is fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Good work
This is so good! More please!
Outstanding work!!
I've just read this. Got the necronopolis for Christmas, brilliant writing. You should come back and do anything animated for everything story so I can watch after I read it haha
Very nice. Thanks for putting this together.
...EXCELLENT film - please do MORE...
One word....Beautiful
Nicely done, man!
I enjoyed it very much ty for that
I just loved it. It gives me the creeps though :D in a good sense for a horror story.
Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed this telling.
Wonderful, thank you for your excellent work.
Completely enjoyed this. Thanks.
Excellent adaptation! Loved the narration, sound and editing. The animation was a little shaky (I don't know how you would rig all those tentacles, anyway! :-) ) but you got around it with limited poses -- anime style! And you choices revealing the monster were completely appropriate and quite imaginative! Thank you! Very inspiring!
This was brilliant, bravo!!
This was really good. It inspires me to write something.
Always a delight to watch this one again.
~JosephKw
Very compelling to watch. Geeat job!
Remarkable work, and good voice acting too.
Excellent job!
Very cool! Awesome effort!
@Gilmaris I think lovecrafts lack of detail to the creature is intentional and set that way to allow the readers own imagination to manifest a personal depiction of unfathomable horror and to some extent makes reading the story more personal and makes it interesting because curiosity dictates you ponder the thought of an unimaginable creature
Awesome work, thanks a lot for sharing, this should be part of an ami
Amazing! Got scared by the screams of the monster :D
that was freaky! Perhaps the wrong thing to view prior to taking rest for the night... However I thoroughly enjoyed it, your animation and sound effects greatly added to the frightening qualities of the tale...
Yog-Sothoth that was amazing!!! Azatthoth have mercy!!!
This is really good... I try to adapt this my self into life-action... your work have some charm into it though.
So often incarnated
So often repreduced
And its still awsome!
Mn, this was the first Lovercraft story I read recently, and it was great. Not as great as The Reanimator, but the ending of this is superb. I could not help but laugh at the genius of it,
Very cool. Good work guys.
You sent my avatar straight to Del May, Lainy. ;) After I could catch my breath, that is!
dude...this is bad assed.
UTTERLY AMAZING!!!!!! :D
Nicely done.
@Gilmaris I think it is intentional that lovecraft showed such lack in description of the creature because it allowed your own imagination to manifest such an unfathomable horror and makes the story more personal to the reader having your own curiosity create a depiction of the creature in your head
That was fantastic
It is just like I depicted it in my head, only I imagined the Monolith much larger 😁
Outstanding!!!
Excellent! Very true to the story! :D
Thumbs up, favorited, this was amazing.
I realy loved this one =) good job! And you didnt show the creature to much i think it was perfect =)
VO was excellent
I like it, and I think showing the creature was a good idea for the method you chose. However, I think if you had spent more time on his experiences in the muddy place and less time having psychedelic visions, it would've been better, but I realise that might take considerably more animation? Anyways, cool creature!
It's possibly one of the best narrations of Dagon I've heard as there is a lot more emotion in it than some. The CGI doesn't really suit it though. It's better than I could do, by a long shot, but I think that Lovecraft largely needs to be left to the imagination.
You said it yourself though, you shouldn't have shown Dagon.
My only other critique would be to remove the sounds of Dagon at the end, it's more implied that it's his madness driving him to it than Dagon 'actually' being there.
Great video dude
Marvelous!
Dagon is also one of the fallen angels
Damn good film. Great job.