This very short film is based on H P Lovecraft’s poem ”Nightgaunts”, which is itself a part of the longer sonnet cycle ”Fungi From Yuggoth”. My main reason for doing this is because I found what I think is a very good recital of the text, done by John Hutch on YouTube. I got his permission to use the audio from his video, and recruited my long-suffering Lovecraftian victim Jimmy Bäckström to writhe about and balance on a stool in front of a...
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One of my favorite children’s authors of today is Englishman Colin West. I’m especially a fan of his nonsense rhymes and I had been wanting to do a little film based on his poem ”The Blunderblat” for a long time. I finally contacted him and asked for permission to make the video and post it on YouTube. Colin gracefully agreed and disclosed that he (like most people, it seems) was a YouTuber as...
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All of the live-action footage for Goblin Wood was shot in one afternoon. It was a quite sunny day and the image quality turned out OK. But not very fantasy-like. So since then I’ve been trying to improve the footage according to my tastes. I wanted a softened, almost hazy look to most of the shots. This meant the applying of filters in After Effects and also the adding of stuff that wasn’t there when the film was shot, like large fungi, animals and fog. Please take a look...
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It took about 1,5 years to complete this project, with starts and stops on and off. I’m quite happy with the finished result, and most important; I learned a lot from it. ”Jabberwocky” is, of course, based on Lewis Carroll’s famous poem from ”Through the Looking Glass”. Here’s the entire film (minus end...
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