Lone Animator Blog Coverage

Richard Svennson is posting about his contributions to the Witch House on his blog. He finished the one on the Octopus today. Check it out for some more behind the scenes imagery and a proper detailing of the process!

"Here's one of those collaborative projects: the video-horror-musical 'The Dreams in the Witch House', based on the rather good tale by H P Lovecraft."

The Interdimensional Octopoid

Here is the original KingOvRats design.

And here is the F-KING FINISHED PUPPET!!!!!!!!

That thing is STUNNING. There are no words. Just...nothing to say. I'm so freaking happy! It looks GREAT floating in it's alternate space! And the blue-color...so vivid. On that blue color, Richard (who will be covering the creature in a blog post, perhaps later in the week) wrote: "...You can't really tell on this photo, but it's spattered with a greenish gray mottling of tiny dots. It doesn't really matter what colour it is now. We can alter that in AE editing if we want to tone things down. It really jumped off my green screen background, which is a good thing."

Some multi-perspectives:

And some shots of the creature in progress:

The first shot I saw of the W.I.P. clay sculpture.

The final head sculpt before the plaster mold was cast.

Richard working on the Octopoid this morning.

Richard Svensson's workroom. Note the Interdimensional Octopoid on the table towards the bottom-right corner.

First Abyssal Set

Richard Svensson, the Lone Animator, has started to work on a puppet. I'm not fully sure which one it is, but its only half-sculpted. We might have some photos tomorrow.

That said, I asked him about backgrounds/sets on Tuesday. I had sent him the sketches for the inanimate structures of the Abyss, of course drawn by KingOvRats.

Richard kindly agreed to do it himself for us. In the end, he shot for the more organic structures. KingOvRats had told me he imagined the Abyss as a more bacterial structure, as seen below.

Now, I hadn't told Mr. Svensson that - but in the end, he came up with exactly that - Lovecraftian bacteria. In summation, the Lone Animator sent me a 2D mockup of what the Hyperspace Abysses might look like.

And it is amazing.

We thank Richard Svensson from the bottom of our heart. He created the perfect image.

Brown Jenkin, Nyarlathotep, and Elder Things!

WOW! Have I a lot to tell you!

First, Brendan has done a bloody good blueprint for the Brown Jenkin puppet.

Secondly, we're gonna build our Elder Thing soon!

And thirdly, I am happy to announce that we are in contact with Richard Svensson, the Lone Animator!

In the script I wrote, Nyarlathotep keeps changing back and forth from the Black Man to the Howler in the Dark. We're low on materials and we need to focus on the more important stuff like Brown Jenkin. So, Mr. Svensson has agreed to animate the Howler in the Dark!

He built a puppet for this avatar a while ago, but he never managed to use it. Which means our film is the first time it'll be used in action! YES!

"Here's the final monster, with PAX paint smoothing out the overall colour scheme, and acrylic airbrush colours adding shadows and highlights.

Yes children, this is how the world will look when the black howler finally appears on Earth." - Richard Svensson, "My Lovecraftian Alphabet part 2"

We thank Richard Svensson from the uttermost nether pits of blasphemous darkness.

And by that I mean thank you so much!