The Statement of Randolph Carter

[Hardstyle2fresh]

So sweet Plz make more asap

[TheBatman1939]

Very great work. I loved this and your Terrible Old Man video.

I have a question though. If at all answerable. What's your going rate for having a very, very short film idea animated?

Thanks in advance.

[gayjuggalo]

Very nice work. Lovecraft would be pleased.

[GrayGhost2020]

Whiel I loved this didn't randolph carter live til his fifties and somehow trancend time and space in the "silver key" and later books?

[EldritchAnimation]

@GrayGhost2020 Yeah, he did. Randolph Carter was kind of Lovecraft's standin character for himself. In retrospect it would have been cool to have the character look like him.

We decided since we may or may not get to the other Randolph Carter stories that his dying would be a good way to wrap this one up. If we do get around to it, oh well, not too worried about the continuity :)

[hyperkriegs]

@GrayGhost2020 in short, yes.

[PacMan0Ghost]

amazing, subbed

[RadicalDreamerWD]

Hi, my name is Warren. And I'm sleeping with the lights on tonight.

[jarmo273]

make a disc on short stoeies with this stryle its gona be way above the bar a weekly series who knows i would tune in people are mad with this kinda stuff now

[TheKommandant91]

oh please oh please make more they are amazing will you please make Dr. Herbert West- reanimator please thats one is my favorite :D

[GhostEye187]

The Narrator's voice acting was awesome.

[Firebrand1922]

Can you put subtitles?

[HEATHERRIDDLE]

This is absolutely amazing! I'm writing a paper on it now. Great job!

[fictionalsilence]

Nice!

[lokuzzz]

fantastic job, again.

big respect :)

[randombeing95]

.....epic

[repsesper]

Amazing job, one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, though it did feel rushed. Lovecraft slowly builds horror and an unsettling tone. Your animation style could attain this, you have the potential.

[popadopalas]

cool air would make an awesome animation

[KevinVonKluger]

Sir. You have my respects.

[BenB8290]

Bravo.

[slitor]

The picture in the house would be perfect if you are doing more of these.

[kalinda619]

amazing, even scarier and creepy than how i read it :O

The portrayal for warren fit perfectly in my opinion, keep up the nice work!

[ForgotteMemories101]

fucking incredible...

[quicksandbuddy]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who loves this story. The first time I read it was right before I went to bed. You can imagine what a mistake that was

[ninja69245]

The first Lovecraft story I ever read, and an awesome one at that :D

[blacksdocrack]

A brilliant idea, the style of animation plus the tone of your voice and the accent fit greatly into the atmosphere of the story. however, I feel it goes by too fast. It's a bit quiet and mumbly. let the words reverberate and let the images they bring linger in the mind of the listener/viewer. don't rush it. and enunciate.

[anmgar]

Every time I hear "Warren is Dead" I get Goosebumps.

[deucehobo]

I can't get over how awesome this is. I hope you're doing a bunch of these. It reminds me of the treatment Bernie Wrightson gave to 'Cool Air' in his old comic book.

[AdminGwruff]

I watched this one night before heading out to the movie theater. If you happen to live in a town that doesn't play a film unless it stars Nicholas Cage then you know where I'm at. I should have stayed home and watched this a few more times. High quality. Great editing. I'm rather chuffed about this.

[seanfenrir]

oh my god... EPIC

[TenDropChris]

Wow, this is good. Just from a technical level the animation looks great. Desgins are awsome.

If your looking for suggestions-has anyone said Pickmen's Model?

[ShoggothLord]

Wonderful, though I dislike that you killed Carter. That didn't happen in Lovecraft's fiction.

[LtHavoc1983]

@ShoggothLord Yeah, the thing is, there would not have been enough evidence to convict him anyway, no one saw what happened and there was no corpse, so yeah.

[repsesper]

One of my favorite Lovecraft stories. This was an interesting take on it. My only nitpick is that I wish it would have been longer, allowing the viewer to savor the mood and horror of the various parts. Great job!

[Shadow7787]

Id love to see you do more.

[masenrocks]

i read the short story then watched this, it is eerily like what I pictured while reading the story

[Thakkra]

"Warren is dead!" haha! my favorite part

[Hot5six4231]

excellent work, far different than I imagined.

[MorganScorpion]

This is the scariest rendition of The Statement of Randolph Carter that I have ever heard/seen!

[Numinous123]

Randolf Carter was never executed. Remember that he appears in other stories by Lovecraft.

It was a good animation, but not honest to the stories.

[TheVillainOfThisTale]

Addendum: Carter being on Death Row in the chair made it even more creepy; I just always imagined him in the interrogation room at a police headquarters.

[TheVillainOfThisTale]

Jesus. This story still chills my bones. It was only the second HPL story I read(after Dagon; I was suggested to read that first because it was so short), and the video is just as creepy as I imagined it in my head. I'd love to see more of these from you. =)

P.S.: This is just my opinion, but the nightmare fuel stories are the best, in my opinion, so if you get a chance, The Unnamable and Dreams in the Witch-House are two you should consider. =D =D =D

[Eldritchfan]

That was epic stuff.

[kesinpa]

Love it! Cant wait for more.

[fakeknife87]

It's a bit different from what I'm used to watching but I did like it! Interesting,..

[painecarson]

Awesome!!! :D

[lordsakkura]

well done! I'm certain that the hollywood adaptation will be completely fucked.

[ansketil]

This is amazing - there's something wonderfully evocative about 2D animation that 3D can never capture. I love this.

[newgoblin36]

As a suggestion, "At The Mountains of Madness" would be the perfect choice for your next animation.

On a side note, I find ti somewhat disturbing that the voice at the end is missing when I play it on my iPod. The background noises, Randolph's voice, and everything else is there, except the "unknown"s voice. It's missing completely, while all other sounds (such as birds, etc etc) is still there. Is this happening to anyone else or is my iPod friggin' haunted?

[EldritchAnimation]

@newgoblin36 You know, we uploaded this to another website and it had that problem there too. The voice is definitely the only part that doesn't show up, and we have no idea what the problem could be. I hope not too many people are having this issue- the end is kind of key!

[newgoblin36]

@EldritchAnimation That's so odd though, because it plays fine on my computer.

[PhantomLord]

@EldritchAnimation umm did you put the sound out of Phase with itself? cause that could be the problem. on a Stereo system it's no problem and this trick gives sounds a kind of eerie feeling like you can't place where the sound is coming from HOWEVER if you listen to the same sound in Mono you will hear absolutely nothing because the sounds are out of Phase. Check with your sound designer and see if he did this to "the Voice" lol. that could be why people don't hear it on certain systems.

[EldritchAnimation]

@PhantomLord That actually makes a lot of sense. I'll look into it, thanks!

[PhantomLord]

@EldritchAnimation no problem. I only know cause i've used that trick before in recordings it's a pretty cool effect. 

[HistorianHimself]

@PhantomLord

yeah i did throw a phaser and a chorus on the unknown's voice. i didn't think about what would happen on a mono system. Still, I'm left wondering why it would be playing in mono on an ipod. i pods definitely play music in stereo...

I wonder if newgoblin36 downloaded the video and chose to create a file with mono audio without realizing it...?

[PhantomLord]

@HistorianHimself well what i was talking about isn't an actual phaser per se. it involves making a duplicate of the voice and putting one of those sound files out of phase. pan those out left and right and you get the effect i'm talking about and the sound disappears in mono. i don't know if this is exactly what you did but i think that's what's happening

[HistorianHimself]

@PhantomLord

i did not do that... the vocals were recorded in mono.

[PhantomLord]

@HistorianHimself hmmm maybe it's the dude's heaphones or something? lol.

[jayhayes2007]

Did it say "You fool, Warren's dead." Or did you miss out the "You fool" part? :)

[elektramunhoz]

Awesome! I added 'The Terrible Old Man" to my favorites a year ago or so, and now this one. I simply love this short story - one of Lovecraft's most terrifying, in my opinion. Have you ever considered "The Color Out of Space" or "The Shunned House"?

[januseva]

I have no idea what just happened or why they didn't have any weapons with them, but absolutely brilliant work with the animation and voice acting!!!

[Zombifaction]

that was outstanding!

I'm not one for Lovecraft, a master writer yes but a blithering idiot in my own personal opinion. He didn't like the Re-Animator...but that is just personal opinion iguess he was a mster of the craft and you do him more than justice with your animations as well as the acting.

Fan-fucking-tastic sir!

[CorvidBlight]

Brilliant, Lovecraft would have dug this fully.

[chewbakha]

hmmm...........I wonder........could you do the H.P. Lovecraft story "Dagon?" or did you already made plans for other animations, keep up the good work

[seanmatthewrosen]

What about The Outsider? Or maybe The Beast In The Cave? Might those translate well to short animation? Just making a few requests.

[EldritchAnimation]

@seanmatthewrosen @seanmatthewrosen I've been thinking on some ideas for the Outsider! I still haven't quite worked out how I'd do it though. Obviously you need to keep the only character hidden until the end, but I'm not sure I like a first person view for the whole film. Hm.

[ItalianWesternReview]

@EldritchAnimation

Perhaps the next logical step would be to do THE UNNAMABLE, another short with the character of Randolph Carter. Though you offed him in this incarnation you can set it up as a prequel (of which I'm certain Lovecraft had in mind anyway being that he is of sound mind during the beginning). Or perhaps THE TEMPLE? Much potential there.

MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and INNSMOUTH are much more difficult to condense due to length. stick to shorts like THE HOUND or FROM BEYOND

[EldritchAnimation]

@ItalianWesternReview Yep, we're doing The Temple! It's coming along slowly and is over twice as long as this one, but it'll be done eventually. :)

[dreamheadstudio]

my god that is a good Animation, i realy hope you guys wil make more of this

[vazzduchesne]

My favorite this week!!! What program are you using?

[Atikkin]

Awesome!

[newgoblin36]

Wow. Absolutely amazing job. I was a big fan of your "Terrible Old Man" video back when it came out, and this is even better. The voice at the end gave me shivers.

I really hope you'll do some more. I agree with what MrWajax said, The Nameless City is a good one.Keep up the incredible work, dude! You'd make Lovecraft himself proud. =)

[EldritchAnimation]

For all of you in the area- we're showing at the HP Lovecraft film festival this October! None of us will be able to make it (we're on the East Coast), but if anyone here goes we'd love to hear about it!

[MrWajax]

I would really like to see you guys take on The Nameless City!

[EldritchAnimation]

@MrWajax That one rocks- I'd really like to get to it sometime!

[gizlivadi8013]

@EldritchAnimation Hard to do. Very hard to do, but the reward of making it awesome is too great, and I think you will :)

[MrWajax]

Love this! This gets a thumbs up & favorite.

[Vicious516]

One of my favorites of Lovecraft. Very good animation you've got here

[tornickin]

the animation is really superb in this! Lookin forward to more. Great job. When they were opening the crypt the way the sound effects were made me think someone was in the room with me. It didn't help that I was watching @ 3am and in the dark!

[tonystark106422]

This is beautiful, brilliant work! Job well done, sir! Love your work.

[666slink]

Very well done!

[1BillionsOfStars1]

fan-fucking-tastic. I absolutely love the animation, and how you kind of put a face to the unspeakable horror in the crypt.

[mroldnewbie]

Definitely better than The Terrible Old Man. Great work. Especially the narration was better this time.

[TheStarlessSky]

Why doesn't it have more views?! Great animation! It was fun reading the story and imagining it, then watching a new interpretation...

[OrichalcumKight]

This is amazing!! Best I've ever seen. This was always one of my favorite stories and I'm happy to see it done so well.

[cciccole]

excellent job

[Jeromepsy001]

Hey, it would be perfect for you guys to do "cool air" and "facts concerning about arthur jermyn and his family"

[gordonfreemannr2]

After I watched this I remembered that I had actually read this a long time ago in a book at school, but I never really understood it until now. Excellent animation, I'm really excited to see more, thus I am subscribing. Good luck :)

[binarynightmare]

Damn! This IS better than The Terrible Old Man, not to say TTOM was bad, it was great! But this, this is really good, perfectly executed, great animation, nice atmosphere and once again, not a stone out of place in your adapting!

My only gripe is Warren's very first lines, they seemed a little rushed.

But other than that, I look forward to seeing a lot more of these!

[DemonSkullStudios]

God, that was amazing! The animation is great, sound is cool and the imagery... well I can't stop looking at it! Great work, 5/5 !!!

[0SatampraZeiros0]

Can you do one on Nyarlothotep? thats actually my favorite of all his stories, especially since Obama was elected President hahaha XD

[Enfors]

I wish I could press the "Like" button a million times.

[QuantumWalker13]

This was a faithful adaptation of this wonderful short story. It really captures the unease of an H.P. Lovecraft tale. Kudos

[shonokin]

Great adaptation! Something that's rare in the HPL adaptation world.

[jlearys]

Love the animation. Look forward to seeing more. The Colour Out of Space is one of my favorite HPL stories, but that would take a considerable effort to animate. But, it would be well worth it I'm sure.

[EldritchAnimation]

@jlearys The Colour Out of Space is my favorite as well, and we're definitely going to do it at some point! It is long though, so we're holding off a little bit before tackling that one.

[vynterbone]

Very enjoyable.

Lovecraft would be proud.

[Goatilocks13]

Impressive! Well done!

[NotGabeNewell]

Must say, the African masks have inspired me a lot. Thank you. You should upload this to Vimeo.

[PyramidHead333]

Was the book they were talking about the Necronomicon?

[EldritchAnimation]

@PyramidHead333 It's never specified in the story, but it definitely could be that or any of the other books that Lovecraft mentions less often.

[PhantomLord]

Please keep these videos coming. They are beyond Creepy.

[daroundhero]

i cant wait for more! thanx historian himself for showing me this and good job on the sounds

[alfbenny]

great work guys! I really enjoyed this and the terrible old man. I would still like to see you guys do From Beyond though! get to it!

[EldritchAnimation]

@alfbenny From Beyond won't be up next, but it's definitely one we hope to get to! These take forever to make, and From Beyond is very long and would be an even more ambitious project. The one we're starting on next will likely be The Temple.

[evaengineer]

Very good.

[city0fj]

this was awesome

[ArchosaurKing]

Not to bad. Its edgy and mysterious, that's for sure.

[MaxWriter]

I liked this though I didn't care for Carter's death at the end. Since he appeared in later stories (The Unnameable, the Silver Key, etc.), I disagree with killing him here.

Fun to watch though.

[EldritchAnimation]

@MaxWriter I can definitely see where you're coming from. The problem is that lots of Lovecraft's work doesn't translate well to film (see pretty much any lovecraft movie made for proof). The "You Fool" line was an awesome end in the story, but in this it wasn't working out the same way on it's own, and having Randolph just go home was well... anticlimactic. We like to think that any changes we make to his work aren't as retarded as some of the ones I've seen in movies, haha.

[MaxWriter]

@EldritchAnimation I can understand that. I'm a bit of a continuity nut and I hope you don't think this isn't the best adaptation of this story I've ever seen. It is. I think it could have worked out with those last words and then fade to black but again, that's just my opinion. I hope you continue to make these as they are just excellent. Love the voice of Randolph Carter too.

[MaxWriter]

@EldritchAnimation I can understand that. I'm a bit of a continuity nut and I hope you don't think this isn't the best adaptation of this story I've ever seen. It is. I think it could have worked out with those last words and then fade to black but again, that's just my opinion. I hope you continue to make these as they are just excellent. Love the voice of Randolph Carter too.

[EldritchAnimation]

@MaxWriter Nope! No offense taken. Right now we don't have any plans to do another of the stories featuring Randolph in the near future, but if we ever do we'll just have to turn a blind eye to how we ended this one.

[cha5]

@EldritchAnimation Well you'd just about have to if you ever did an adaptation of 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath', Of course that's a pretty long story which might be hard to do as an adaptation.

[ksol1460tv]

@cha5 - According to Joshi, DreamQuest happened before this. He studied with Warren after he had lost his ability to go to the dreamlands. The Silver Key is next.

[ksol1460tv]

@MaxWriter ~ I'd have to assume the governor's reprieve came through at the last second, or something eldritch happened. Or that this is just what Randolph is worried will happen, while he's giving his statement. Since they don't have a body, and there's no evidence Warren died, only that he's missing, Randolph cannot be charged with murder.

[HistorianHimself]

yeah. big lazer attacks!!! whoooot!

doug, did you come up with the awesome mask design at the beginning, and the various ones in Warren's study? Thems some nice spooky maskers!

[EldritchAnimation]

@HistorianHimself Yep! Strong inspiration from African masks, but I like drawing that type of thing

[StrikerTripleThree]

COOLLLLLLLLLLL

[stevedaniels5]

The animation and sound design was fantastic.

[MrLemex]

Nice work!

[passivesquid]

OMG AMAZING!!!

[JWRapa]

Awesome work Doug and co.!

[PhantomLord]

YESS!!! Finally more Lovecraft animation!! I loved the Terrible old man.

[brainwreckfilms]

I really enjoyed that. Good job!

[ico3232]

This may just be the moot ramblings of a Lovecraft fan but Carter doesn't die in this story. Infact, he went home to Boston and had a couple more adventures and eventually disappeared. Great animation though.

[EldritchAnimation]

@ico3232 Agreed- during the planning stages for this one we found we had to make some kind of change. We found the short juuust didn't work with "and then Randolph went home".

[JimSoper85]

LOL

[EldritchAnimation]

@JimSoper85 OH GREAT IT'S YOU

[Wootangi]

Really awesome!

[tehflambo]

SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111­1whywontitpostmycommendmaybeit­ssomekindofspamfilter

[kennypenguin]

Good job guys!