To Mr. Edward Martin III


Good show! I enjoyed it. I had to show it to my g/f and she enjoyed it as well. It had humor, style, visually entertaining SFX, and I noticed lots of Elder Signs everywhere, little Lovecraftian symbols being slipped in there.

I didn't like how Carter was being picked up and placed down the staircase, stair by stair, or when the yak ran away like a puppeteer dragging a papered picture around the screen. But I do understand budget costs and computer software limitations. Another thing that bugged me were the voices for some of the actors, like the two priests in the gates of flame, they didn't sound right at all. But, yet again, low budget: understood.

Over all, not a bad picture.

Question: Would you be offended if there were a filmmaker in the future to make their own theatrically produced version of "Dream-Quest"? I think it would be interesting to see, a Randolph Carter who's not bald, doesn't have colonial-segmented feet and hands, and a somewhat older complexion, seeing as how he fought in the Great War and would appear to have some war scars, or at least some wounds from being mauled by the Unnamable (but it is a dreamworld). I think seeing a flashback between Carter and Pickman in Boston underground associating with a ghoul would be an interesting glimpse to behold. The war between the ghouls and night-gaunts with the moon-beasts and slaves would look better theatrically, and the sequence in the Vale of Pnath would play out better with a much scarier vibe.

That's just what I think, though.

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Oh thank you for the kind words!

Yes, well, this is what happens when a bunch of folks get together and decide "Hey, let's make a movie", and then decide "Hey, let's make a feature!" and then decide "Hey, let's make an animated feature!" and then decide "Hey, let's make an animated feature, adapted from a virtually unfilmable novel!"

And a great time was had by all! 8)

Actually, Randolph Carter only appears this way because it's how he appears in his own dream. Watch the scne with King Kuranes more carefully for the clue to that.

The animation is what it is. Very peculiar. 8) But we actually planned on less animation entering the project because we just didn't think we would have much ability to manipulate Jason's artwork, but once we all started working together, Jason started redrawing stuff and we started finding people who wanted to animate more pieces and, well, one thing led to another and we had all kinds of animation going on. Very fun. As you've probably noticed, the animation improved as the movie progressed. This is because we made it in sequence, so as we animated, we learned more and applied more. We did go back to the beginning and cycle through at least once, and the latest version has a few scenes that were wholly re-animated (ahem) from scratch, but we had to stop sometime or we would have kept cycling through and through the project endlessly!

Hey, I think it would be great to see more adaptations of this novel! Making movies is fun!

The Dream Cycle is my favorite Lovecraft works, and sadly, the least well-tackled by moviemakers. But we're hoping to fix that...

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