The animation, music and sound effects were great. I would only suggest one thing. You need a narrator actually reading the book while the scenes play out. Other than that, great.
I love the fact that you added the sound effects! To riff on what people mentioned earlier about this being monty python-esque and not macabre enough, I think that may be what E.G. was striving for, something a little tongue-in-cheek that many people would not get, with a little hilarity thrown in. Whenever I look at his work, I want to laugh at the impropriety if it. Beautiful.
Love the animation, appreciate the effort....BUT the extra sound effects put me off...sorry. Instead of a stoic Gorey piece, it comes off like a Monty Python-esque comedy bit, like someone mentioned earlier. Good try and thanks for the effort.
By far the best rendition of the Gashlycrumb Tinies I've seen. You've somehow managed to bring them all back to life! E.G. would be proud! Well done :)
My teacher showed the whole class this. It's her favorite poem. She said the author was a nice person but something was not right in his brain. (: Lol, I don't find this funny but the ways they die are weird.
Columbia University just received Edward Gorey's works as a donation to the Rare Books Archive at Butler Library. This is an animated version of Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies...a darker take on the alphabet.
some of the scenes are really good! and funnyxd poor children, this is weird, but awesome! i didn't see sth like this, some kind of a animated horror sneces? i luvvv horrors ;> what a shame it's not a film ;p
i'd be doubly amazed if Mr. Gorey was still alive AND mastering Java and Flash, though i'm sure this is exactly as he saw it in his brilliant, peculiar head!
@AkiraTakahara I animated it all, but the toliet was added as I was trying to think of a painful way to relieve the tacks from out of the body. it's not a very good joke but it was all I could come up with haha
I've always loved this 'poem'. The animation is quite clever, nut I think some of the attempts at humour get in the way of the macabre original. Still, well done in many respects.
Found this while searching for the original animation from around the early 80's that sometimes showed during "Mystery!". Freaked me out as a kid but I can't find it anywhere...
The first time I heard of Edward Gorey was when I bought a tin lunchbox at the dollor store, thinking it was cute (and evil XD). I've become a fan now. :3
Omg who would every read this to there kid.....well I guess if your really angery and is like " C'mere Little Johnny , I WaNNA SCAR YOU FOR FREAKIN LIFE!"
This is quite good. Personally, I would love to hear a narrator with an appropriately morbid voice reading the a-z while the animation plays. But great job here.
I was intreged by the book, and thought it cute, but putting it to words and moving pictures, I do see the morbidness,. I know this had to have taken alot of time, thank you for this. I shall show everyone I know.
that was done pretty well and seamlessly with the originals, but honestly, i like the simplicity and mystery to not seeing what's implied. it was a little cheesy in parts.
Beautiful, excellent. This was my favorite childhood book growing up. It's even better with sound and motion.
Thanks!!!!
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J-took lye by mistake
E-choked on a peach
S-perished of fits
S-" "
I- drowned in a lake
C-wasted away
A-fell down the stairs
sheesh, no wonder this guy did the intro to masterpiece mystery on multiple occasions!
GiftednTalented909 2 weeks ago
wtf
tigre1354 1 month ago
@tigre1354
It teaches children not to be bad. If Titus hadn't been curious about that box, he wouldn't have been exploded.
willy10629 1 week ago
hmm...the bus should a' been here by now....
nicuador 2 months ago
wow.
SiCSiXSEX 2 months ago
voices and sounds are awful and not funny!
What a waste of your time!
Nero1489 4 months ago
oh my god
92Jackalope 4 months ago
This is weirdly hilarious.
therealcritic28 5 months ago
The animation, music and sound effects were great. I would only suggest one thing. You need a narrator actually reading the book while the scenes play out. Other than that, great.
WillsTube1 5 months ago 2
I think I liked H... I feel like an awful person.
missdeathdaisy 6 months ago
I love the fact that you added the sound effects! To riff on what people mentioned earlier about this being monty python-esque and not macabre enough, I think that may be what E.G. was striving for, something a little tongue-in-cheek that many people would not get, with a little hilarity thrown in. Whenever I look at his work, I want to laugh at the impropriety if it. Beautiful.
mikeh216 6 months ago
sound effects ruined it for me. you get an A for effort though
thatwascool13 7 months ago 2
LOL this is absolutely funny
kaatxu 7 months ago
This is it!? This is what I have for the rest of my life!?" my favorite part :)
mykyjohn 7 months ago 8
I always liked my fairy tales Grimm, but I think Gorey nursery rhymes may be just as good.
CharlesOlson711 7 months ago
Love the animation, appreciate the effort....BUT the extra sound effects put me off...sorry. Instead of a stoic Gorey piece, it comes off like a Monty Python-esque comedy bit, like someone mentioned earlier. Good try and thanks for the effort.
Bruin8 7 months ago 2
I´m a fan super!!!
condessarte 7 months ago
By far the best rendition of the Gashlycrumb Tinies I've seen. You've somehow managed to bring them all back to life! E.G. would be proud! Well done :)
beachugger 8 months ago
this must have been the inspiration for a gorey demise by creature feature
treyblowski 10 months ago
very monty python!
artfan101 10 months ago
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hey guys, check out the song A Gorey Demise by Creature Feature. guaranteed to please
squalltheemokid 10 months ago
Wow, that was really good! My favourite part was the axe and the sound it made as it ran away.
valedro 10 months ago
Love it, love it, love it! I laugh far too much at certain Tinies' demises.
lifestandstillhere 10 months ago
Beautiful :D
evejou 11 months ago
Excellent work!
zanderwolfe 11 months ago
haha lovely soundeffects!
Lainenskoo 11 months ago
This animation leaves nothing to the imagination; making it quite dull.
jpstenino 11 months ago
Jesus the still pictures are actually way more disturbing than the animations. Aslo i can now see one of david firths major influences
mikeanbamgay 11 months ago
so........swallow tacks = attacked by toilet? and lmao at ennui kid and invisible werewolf with axe :)
misskitty345 11 months ago
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That axe will haunt my dreams for a dozen nights to come... O__O
TheDurationPlusFive 1 year ago
That axe will haunt my dreams for a dozen nights to come... O__O
TheDurationPlusFive 1 year ago
The classic version of Happy Tree Friends.
brickedandshot 1 year ago
Incredibly crude and for that reason in bad taste
spinoza1111 1 year ago
My teacher showed the whole class this. It's her favorite poem. She said the author was a nice person but something was not right in his brain. (: Lol, I don't find this funny but the ways they die are weird.
xmaaariana 1 year ago
i liked Q
zombipl0x 1 year ago
27 Brits reacted to 'Fanny sucked dry by a leech'
marthafarquar 1 year ago
very very close to monty python stuff.
dkstojentin 1 year ago
Children dying shouldn't be this funny!
artmonkey24 1 year ago
LOVED THIS. This is my favorite poem ever.
Neville, Prue, Titus and Susan had to be my favorites, and Kate's axe was SCARY.
"This is IT?"
There needs to be a like Squared button.
rohangirl90 1 year ago
like!
edenia 1 year ago
I just love how the skeleton guy says Edward Gorey, and then his jaw falls off. XD
Ostehoevel 1 year ago
'Gorey' but great!
ThePunkyAmerica 1 year ago
gay.
coopercrue 1 year ago
You've done a terrific Job - did you send it to Mr. Gorey?
Great Stuff - thanks
brixtonbluebeat 1 year ago
@brixtonbluebeat Gorey's been dead for years.
ethanwc 1 year ago
@ethanwc yes, but only 10 years. I wasn't sure when this animation of yours was made. I am sure he would have approved - it's horribly good.
brixtonbluebeat 1 year ago
how does the L animation work ?
by "taking lye by mistake" means that he drank lye which is a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide which means he was poisoned
xcrunkxcorex 1 year ago
I loved Clara *arm falls off* "That wasn't supposed to happen." HAHAHA. Great animation!
gullybear20 1 year ago
ok...
WindHarmonyisme 1 year ago
HAHAHA!!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
This is totally like the Creature Feature song "A Gorey Demise"
ultamatebeatlefan 1 year ago
@ultamatebeatlefan Thats because Creature Feature based that song off of this story.
omgaus 1 year ago
BRILLIANT WORK @AkiraTakahara BRAVO!!
CONGRATULATIONS! !
icebatski 1 year ago
lol. pretty funny
yummymayo 1 year ago
That was so... disturbing @.@
ysa722 1 year ago
bwhaha I just thought that same thing about the toilet! where are the tack? he should be projectile vomiting them. :P~
Karmagirl29 1 year ago
was una taken by samara morgan?
kevinbemeh 1 year ago
A very good adaptation of Gorey's work. Lol.
tinkerboomoose 1 year ago
GREAT JOB!!!
williammoseleyfan101 1 year ago
SO AWESOME!
niggawax52 1 year ago
I love it. ;D
xxNyksxx 1 year ago
Columbia University just received Edward Gorey's works as a donation to the Rare Books Archive at Butler Library. This is an animated version of Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies...a darker take on the alphabet.
kls2157 1 year ago
Only one bit of feedback: Titus's bomb should have been ticking. Because you know all old-school package bombs ticked ;)
But no, that was awesome. Great job. I loved Kate and the killer axe.
makenna88 1 year ago
some of the scenes are really good! and funnyxd poor children, this is weird, but awesome! i didn't see sth like this, some kind of a animated horror sneces? i luvvv horrors ;> what a shame it's not a film ;p
JussT1k 1 year ago
i'd be doubly amazed if Mr. Gorey was still alive AND mastering Java and Flash, though i'm sure this is exactly as he saw it in his brilliant, peculiar head!
iamemileo 1 year ago
so fuckin' weird.
ejdziesia 1 year ago
What-The-Hell :\
VirtualInfocalypse 1 year ago
Siobhan Magnus will love this lol
Sepia1989 1 year ago
Kinda frightening, but so Tim Burton-ish! I really like this type of animation.
nucia2 1 year ago
ABC ;D
astraadi 1 year ago
ABC ;D
astraadi 1 year ago
umm so?
kariXinho 1 year ago
so?
kariXinho 1 year ago
so?
kariXinho 1 year ago
not dark enough to silly
spaceoddity97 1 year ago
ok the fire one freaked me out
mjmegafan223 1 year ago
nice :3
pinkflowerbaby56 1 year ago
Great work!
deliotk 1 year ago
Fucking sex.
rocker3250 1 year ago
I loled at Kate being hit by the axe and Prue being trampled by the huge mob lol.
AtheistCanuck 1 year ago
So wait....did Gorey animate it all or did you?
'Cause the thing with the Toilet (Mr. Potty) was kind of a WTF moment (what does it have to do with swallowing tacks???)
AkiraTakahara 1 year ago 4
@AkiraTakahara I animated it all, but the toliet was added as I was trying to think of a painful way to relieve the tacks from out of the body. it's not a very good joke but it was all I could come up with haha
him6661 1 year ago 15
@him6661 What you did was you worked with the existing animation/drawings.
plopnod 5 months ago
@AkiraTakahara
USE YOUR IMAGINATION, PLZ. it's got something to doo-doo with it.
icebatski 1 year ago
@icebatski
Hurrhurr
AkiraTakahara 1 year ago
Mwahahahahahaha I love this...
Zane123Roberts 1 year ago
Wickedly Awesome! :D I love it<3
DementedBunnyofDoom 1 year ago
Earnest, George, Prue, and Quintin were absolutely hysterical!!!
melondoggy 1 year ago
fantabulous. great job.
makenna88 1 year ago
Excellent work! It kind of feels like "The Gashlycrumb Tinies", as done by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python).
Some of the sequences were laugh-out-loud funny, esp. Victor being squashed not once, but twice by the train. XD Yorick's demise made me LOL too.
datalal624 1 year ago
Now this is what i call Morbid Humor.
CorvusKorax17 1 year ago
Brilliant. I think Edward Gorey would have loved it. Happy Birthday Mr. Gorey...
drmoonrat 1 year ago
this remind any one else of the song "a gorey demise" by creature feature
remnock 1 year ago
very monty pythonish. i love it
tsofan2000 1 year ago 3
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chreesatlagavia 2 years ago
I LIKE IT!
Prue is the best one
vrikey 2 years ago
I've always loved this 'poem'. The animation is quite clever, nut I think some of the attempts at humour get in the way of the macabre original. Still, well done in many respects.
bartonim 2 years ago 2
I loved Clara when she said "damn that wasn't supposed to happen" lol
ThumpoftheDead 2 years ago
Kinda Creeps Me Out but its Cool (:
I Only know of it because my english teacher has each page from the book laminated and hungup on his wall.
N is for Neville, Who died of Ennui.
the only reason i knew what that word meant was because of this (:
Haha, his last name is Gorey,
and so i guess he's like
'thee Addams Family'..
funny how things workout like that sometimes,....
whoabro94 2 years ago
Awesome job.. I think Gorey would have loved it. You kept his sense of humor intact.
TJ37043 2 years ago
This is excellently made, I love the voices
vanilla00fluff 2 years ago
As tSIX put it, this is really MATT-astic !!!!!
Although there are many YT-videos for the 'tinies', you created the ultimate version to which any other has to stand comparison.
Even if I shouldn't accentuate one single letter, but you killed me with Victor, when the train came a second time :)
Each second of your work was worth the effort. Brilliant, hats off for you ...
maguskh 2 years ago 2
Brilliant!
TalvikkiG 2 years ago
Wow! Brilliant work!
DinaSteymans 2 years ago
Found this while searching for the original animation from around the early 80's that sometimes showed during "Mystery!". Freaked me out as a kid but I can't find it anywhere...
shred6 2 years ago 2
Brilliant.
Ridaeon 2 years ago
now thats scary
CAZPERsayz 2 years ago
that....was....fucking....Mattastic!!!XD!!!!
tSIXe666 2 years ago
This is absoulutley amazing. I love it lots.
The first time I heard of Edward Gorey was when I bought a tin lunchbox at the dollor store, thinking it was cute (and evil XD). I've become a fan now. :3
Great work! <3
inuyashaswoman 2 years ago
Excellent work!
krysthopher 2 years ago
Really great.
potter1itm 2 years ago
I love it!
lorilani 2 years ago
Excellent! Love it!
Demonia69 2 years ago
Just brilliant. You've done Gorey's work honor. He would have loved it. Thank you from another Gorey fan.
tekobari 2 years ago 30
xD Love it.
indiaxinsolence 2 years ago
Brilliantly detailed work.
Scelestus3 2 years ago
Perfect!!! Clapping happy dancing Kudos!!!
JDonisch 2 years ago
You, sir, have a sick sense of humor. I love it.
Jaimetud 2 years ago
B and C were funny! :)
Bakergirl757 2 years ago
This is Awesome
Runup111 2 years ago
Nice job! I enjoyed that very much!
sarahisavampire 2 years ago
wow, that was wonderful animation! good job.
violentfille 2 years ago
reminds me of chicago
The1193football 2 years ago
I would SO get this for my kid.
It's genuis and truthful i can appreciate it!
HotPawket 2 years ago
Haha.
This was my childhood book :]
mreddy0 2 years ago
Horrifying, yet ingenious!
PhilippaSomerville 2 years ago
Bravo! That was great!
fluroescence 2 years ago
Excellent work!!
erafiorn 2 years ago
Love the sound effects!!!!
edskid545 2 years ago
very well animated ^_^
nagger221 2 years ago
I love those tiny tots!
victorianlulu 2 years ago
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are you all fucking retarded..this shit is sickening
RectusDominusMaximus 2 years ago
You're an idiot.
omegalegato 2 years ago
this is great! i love it!
itsEMILYTERROR 2 years ago
まさに「大人の絵本」。シュールな所がいいね。
動画まであるとは!
despair208 2 years ago
the axe is freakin awesome!
smogwhy 2 years ago
Grim :) perfect spirit of the book!
erondagirl6277 2 years ago 3
mr. potty's a dick!!
blackswordsman11 2 years ago 7
Excellent! I love it ;d
Lillayah 2 years ago
Great job!
VHShit 2 years ago
Mr.Potty is a jerk
CanaanSGl 2 years ago
Kind of silly in a Monty Python-esque way lol
NarutoGeek6093 2 years ago
Very funny :) I love this book.
duduwudu 2 years ago 2
omg the funniest thing I've seen in a while!
Twilightmia 2 years ago
sweet
onikjohn3 2 years ago
SCOD approves *****
SCODgreenhood 2 years ago
This was wonderful! :) Great work!
LeighAnne112087 2 years ago
Excellent job!
Koshka42 2 years ago
This is IT? This is all I have the rest of my life?!
BrokenPenciLead 2 years ago
Quite good quite good
fayfoster 2 years ago
Oh, Neville...if only you'd reached out...
meredumais 2 years ago
Well done sir. Well done.
chip783 2 years ago
Wow, this was hilarious. Nice tribute to Gorey's little alphabet. Favorited.
BrokenPenciLead 2 years ago
LOL Basil's animation was funny~
"YEAH HIGH FIVE!!" XD
...So was Victor's...
And Yorick
theeFri 2 years ago
Great job. I love it.
xMandyVx 2 years ago
Nice job. Thanks for putting this together.
salemmass1692 2 years ago
... WHYYYY??!?!!
aaawhyme 2 years ago
really good job. deserves all the effort...:)
mmmjcr 2 years ago
pretty disturbing
chicksdigthesticks 2 years ago
reminds me of Tim Burton. good job.
endlesshope77 2 years ago
Omg who would every read this to there kid.....well I guess if your really angery and is like " C'mere Little Johnny , I WaNNA SCAR YOU FOR FREAKIN LIFE!"
yuukaihana 2 years ago
I always thought fits referred to a seizure
RoyalScarlet01 2 years ago
It does, but this is funnier.
JacKn1feSugarTrucK 2 years ago
oh my. O.o
tribbleq 2 years ago
I LOVE IT! It has a weird python-esque feeling towards it
ColorFace1116 2 years ago
what the fuck!?!?
ToxicVideoWaste 2 years ago
This is quite good. Personally, I would love to hear a narrator with an appropriately morbid voice reading the a-z while the animation plays. But great job here.
Lunarwill 2 years ago 2
rofl. nice job. i have the book and i'm planning on reading it to my future children ^_^
ADragonAmongRoses 2 years ago
love it!
MSSOUNDCOOP 2 years ago
O .O
Shessca 2 years ago
wonderfully wicked animation!
lerrazproductions 2 years ago
Absolutely brilliant! Loved it, brilliant.
Ikebanna00 2 years ago
Soooo excellent!
Really really good job!
Tamihc 2 years ago
Certainly well worth the time spent.
vk342 2 years ago
Well Done! (-80 hours????!) Very entertaining!
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AndrewHoyt128 2 years ago
sOOO many ways to die, soo many ways to become enlightened.
maninwhitedress 2 years ago
ha fucking funny
DeadSpace02 2 years ago
lol i loved it
xxbabydemonxx 2 years ago
u jsut reuined the scaryness off the book
fullySICKgangsta 2 years ago
i saw it on myspace and i laughed on a emo girls page
fullySICKgangsta 2 years ago
I was intreged by the book, and thought it cute, but putting it to words and moving pictures, I do see the morbidness,. I know this had to have taken alot of time, thank you for this. I shall show everyone I know.
Kate0Loves0Leo666 3 years ago
I thought some of those were really funny, though they shouldn't have been, but the Axe and a few others kind of upset me.
thenobodys666 3 years ago
that was done pretty well and seamlessly with the originals, but honestly, i like the simplicity and mystery to not seeing what's implied. it was a little cheesy in parts.
love gorey!
shahrzadooooo 3 years ago 2
EXCELLENT!
zenguy22 3 years ago