The Conqueror Worm

[weelittledragon]

Hey, wasn't this music used as the intro to Jonathan Creek?

[TheMorrochben]

very well done, my one question is (as someone who has memorized this poem and written essays on it) where was the phantom? the phantom is very important for the theme, it represents mans constant pursuit of happiness that can never be satisfied, man is the crowd who 'seize it not' because we can never lay our hands on happiness however much we try. Other than that, it was excellent.

[TheBonaparteReport]

this is splendid. Really matches the music, like a darker fantasia.

[pauldonovan3]

Reviewing this video for English 102 class at Bristol Community College with Prof. J. Grandchamp.

Very good job with the animation. It was well thought out. It takes alot of planing, and tedious, intricate work to make something like this.

Certainly reminds me of work done by Luis Castanon from Brainwash Studios. Check out his work at

ponorka.eu/html/animace/1/swf/­vegetar.swf

[moltoallegro19]

Very well done! Love Poe, love Saint-Saëns and I love your artworks!

[kalacs32]

The coffin-theatre idea was really creative! :)

[StitchedDolly]

That was beautiful

[RavCro]

Wonderful!!!

[egdeltur666]

This is totally kick ass, by the way.

And look at that, you incorporated the whole poem, metaphor and all, without utterin a word of it in the film. Take that, book nerds.

[kreativekool]

dude you just saved me from doing a tedious poem analyzation!

[egdeltur666]

@kreativekool Oh no, some class asking you to over analyze it to death?

Sure, it's about the inevitability of death and all that, but you should tell them this:

"The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Alan Poe is, at it's heart, a very literal piece which fortells the death of mankind by the gullet of the immense star-borne monstrosity (the worm) and child of Ogdru Jahad as Nyarlathotep has lead men on the way to destruction with his myriad masks. I don't know what the angels mean."

[MrGoji4evr]

Brilliant!

[PierreLombardini]

ive watched this like 30 times in 4 days O_O! specially for the music danse macabre !! but its nice to see the video from time to time

[Agghasi]

nice animation

[PierreLombardini]

inspiratinal

[sroodhorst]

very nice

[McCabeism]

Very high quality.

[MiyazakiA2]

This video was nothing short of amazing. *shudder* It had me on the verge of tears, let me tell you. Very deep, very touching. I'm going to have to go read that poem.

(Kind of makes me want to be cremated, though.)

[TheGreatOldOnes]

wow....just wow. that was amazing. you have managed to make one of the best poems ever into a visual art form.

[greengorilla3000]

WOW...and here I was going to my own movie of the poem but it seems like this one has got my work cut out for me..hmmm...amazing video!

[6x9equals42]

And then the Worm saith unto the Rebel Students: You have No Chance, No Chance at all. Why throw your Lives away?

It's all the same old story. A bit sad, but true.

[poeforward]

Excellent work. Thanks for posting.

[archer1949]

That was amazing!

Thanks

[Trevhard1]

Edgar Allen Poe rules!!!

[flagmanthefirst]

Call me a philistine: That was just really fuggin' weird.

[fcmarcus]

I love this. Great vision and carry-off.  Gems like this make the internet a wonderful place.

[bisbeejim1]

That was really good!

[Mehunefer79]

beautiful...

[gustavogomezdiaz]

Excelent work! The always triumphant worm. I love E.A. Poe's works. here's 5*, bro.

[LeftSock06]

This creative piece is all about being human, our unique ability to express our hopes and fears through art. Some people can't appreciate that for some reason. Ah well. I think Poe and Saint-Saens would really like this interpretation of their work.

[Optichick5020]

I love this video...I'm playing danse Macabre for my 8th grade piece...so I came across this piece and fell in love with it!!!

[magicsixball]

dude.... this sucks!

[efkanx]

Thankful for it since it's really amazing

[violet12432]

yeah thats kinda creepy...

[Tinkerbelladona]

That's really fucking good. can you do something similar incorporating the music of Steps of Central Asia?

[Bushmansmeg]

wtf

[whrelp]

did you make this yourself?

[pose2pose]

Yep--all by my lonesome...well, technically, Edgar Allen Poe wrote the poem and Camille Saint-Saens did the music, but I did all the rest.

[magicsixball]

good job its just kinda scary and stuff...

[caribbeanlovester]

sweet XD

[nukleopatra88]

very cool

[MasterJessav]

Wonderful!

[Schonerdorn]

Beautifully done! Sopor Aeternus did an amazing version of this story in song. You should try and sync it with this video too.

[yoyosa]

¡Bravo!

[LeftSock06]

Fantastique.

[raas96]

wow... that's really good

[raven1234]

Saint Sean's Danse Macabre really go well with the animation. Good job^^ I love it.

[LoveCraken]

Amazingly done. You are a genius. This is one of my favourite poems and you really captured the mood.

[lilpeacey]

wonderful animation. That was beautiful. *.* I really liked that, beautiful song, beautiful animation... 5 stars. Favorited.

[nitesho]

Marvelous work..Is it cut out work,or animation by computer?

[pose2pose]

Both--I drew the body parts by hand, scanned them in, then cut them out and colored them in Photoshop. Then I animated them in Adobe After Effects, in the cut-out style.

[grichmannii]

this is, quite simply, wonderful!