Steve Alten had a really good book "The Loch" where the monster was a species of prehistoric, giant, oceanic eel. It would enter the Loch to spawn, following the salmon.
I agree it's probably Steve Alten's best but overall I don't think he's that good an author, nevertheless he's the one who got me into reading so I gotta give him credit for that at least
Coincidentally enough, recent tests show there's actually a large subspecies of European eel living in the loch. They were separated during the Ice Age when the loch & near by rivers was created by receding glaciers.
I'm the same way. I remember seeing the "terrier" version of Nessie in a book on Loch Ness, in fact it ended with it. And seeing some the pictures made me think of it when it was shown.
Dragons or fae, I heard a funny idea once that the bored shape shifter would stir up the locals with sightings but when the big explorers would come would turn into a person and watch from the shore, maybe even get in on the photos laughing as they find nothing.
Here's one for you, I remember when they sailed a number of boats fitted with sonar to track Nessie. I can imagine the lot of them lounging on the shore with a picnic lunch and waving to the crews from the shore as they sailed past them. I can also imagine one of them listening to the Police's Synchronicity 2 which references the Loch Ness monster.
I absolutely love the creativity you used in re-imagining the earliest descriptions/illustrations of Nessie, starting at 2:52. Nessie never really scared me before, but your sculpting and stop motion gave it a really eerie and Lovecraftian vibe. Your invested narration about the folklore was very captivating. Thank you for this wonderful video.
That is Tony "Doc" Shiels; magician, illusionist, folk musician, author, artist and prankster. Look him up. And the naked witches by his sides are his daughters, so I guess they're pretty cool too.
@@TheLoneAnimator yes indeed!! wonderful video!! i love it!! also deep words and beautiful about how the monster still there part of the mythology folklore...
I remember this line from a Loch Ness documentary where the researcher remarked how scientists might debunk the monster then one day a creature emerges from the Loch saying "Boo sucks to you scientists."
I think almost every Norseman (I'm a Faroe Islander) is born into a culture full of folklore and healthy superstition, making us inherently curious when it comes to mythological beasts (cryptids) and strange phenomena Forbannað gott, frændi mín. Drív á! Skál
While I came for the Lovecraft adaptations, I love this new direction as well. Hope to see more of this in the future as well, and as always - amazing work!
bluworm has that effect. He's majick. Something similar happened to me a couple of years back and I told him in a comment. I think for no reason he popped into my head and I started thinking about his cool videos, then a new video appeared on my subs page after a long absence.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the critter of the Spicer account at 2:55 was a cowrie, although the proboscis was far too long. Of all the mollusks I've kept over the years, my favorites by far!
Hey... If the ancient Scots have been talking about weird things in that lake for centuries, and we're still talking about weird things in the lake... There's probably something spooky in the lake- don't go near the lake.
If you haven't seen it, I bet you'd like Incident at Loch Ness. It's a shakey-cam horror movie/pseudo-documentary about Werner Herzog making a movie at Loch Ness about the monster as a social and psychological phenomenon. The monster shows up late but the minimalist effects are quite effective; the bulk of the movie is a prickly satire on filmmaking.
Hmm... interesting! First time I've heard of it coming onto land. I knew it went close and wrecked boats but never knew it was claimed that she went on land. I love the Dino-Scottie Hybrid theory too😁🏴
Epic film! I feel sure that the giant mollusks could earn their keep in another film. Read FW Holiday's book years ago - the vision of a boneless giant has stuck with me ever since!
Looking at these early sightings really shows how the 1925 adaptation of The Lost World & King Kong effected the later sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. Especially after the 1934 hoax.
Thanks! Problem is, nobody gives a shit about the kind of stuff I do. The tastes of the world have turned and gone too different. BUT, I have nothing else to do with my life, so I'll keep going, I guess.
@@TheLoneAnimator You got my support and tbh with lovecraft coming back even more now. I think you could find a bigger audience. I am going to see what I can do to help.
It's really funny. I had this idea of doing a short documentary style film about the different interpretations of the monsters of loch ness with stop motion inspired by your amazing work. And low and behold you had already done it.
I found this channel last night and have now watched near all of your videos. I am sad there are not more. You certainly deserve more subs and patrons for your incredible work.
There's a fun book written by Steve Alten "The Loch" which is cannon with his "Meg" series that was made into a movie a few years back. He has a fun way of mixing science with science fiction to make his stories more plausible. I wont spoil the theory he brings up about the monster in the book, but it is one that is not often covered. The Meg world goes down an insane rabbit hole, I recommend it. Also your work is incredible, I cannot get enough of it!
I remember seeing that picture of the dinosaur/ terrier Loch Ness monster at the end of a book about the Loch Ness Monster. I believe the book was called "The Mystery of Loch Ness." I read it when I was a kid, possibly forty years ago. Disney did a short, part animation and part live action which I believe was called "Man, Myth, and Monster" and it was shown originally before Pete's Dragon back in the 70s. What is good about it is it deals more with the myth rather than any sort of proof, and even the monster - voiced by the same actor who did Whinny the Pooh - says he's avoiding scientific proof.
This is great, I love cryptozoology! All the different puppets are so cool, could you maybe make a short, unedited video where you showcase them without the effects? Just so that we could betters see them. My personal favourite is the one with the long legs, seen on the street.
Thanks :) I do talk about all the puppets on one of my Patreon videos. BUT I'll also make a blog post about the making of the video, and you'll see crisp and clear stills of all the puppets there. If you're subscribing to my channel, you'll get a notice when that blog post is up.
I've kept watching some of your videos and I'm also a fan stop motion films. I just wish that live action movies today would just use Stop Motion sequences just like how the late Ray Harryhausen did with his films.
I think the way stop-motion is being made today would certainly be a competitive FX technique. The animation produced by Laika is now so smooth I can't tell it from CGI.
your work is so well done and charming and just wonderful, tack så mycket please keep making all these wonderful cryptid and Lovecraft pieces of work :)
@@TheLoneAnimator do you plan also apaptation of other monster modern myth? Mokele-mbembe african dinosaur, as exemple and etc? All this cryptozoology is so awesome! I want to belive!
As a fan of your work, and having an interest in cryptozoology myself, I really like the idea of you merging your interests in cryptozoology with your animation skills. I especially liked the dino-terrier and mollusk model-work. I would like to see you eventually tackle other cryptids like the thunderbird, dogman, dab-sog, mothman, and beast of bray road. Or, UFO encounter critters like the Hopkinsville Hobgoblins, if your interests take you there.
Glad you enjoyed my Nessies :) I'm thinking of doing more cryptozoological interpretations, but it's a huge subject. I have to figure out where to go next.
I'm speechless. More genius from the lone animator. First Lovecraft, now Nessie. 2 of my most favourite subject matter 👏👏👏👏 Throw in some Bigfoot material now & I can die an incredibly happy man 😁
This gave me an idea! What if someone did a speculative evolution ecosystem with all these loch ness monster designs being animals preying on eachother and coexisting.
I love your stop-motion critters, and I always loved Nessie. By the way, did you ever see a brief Disney animated 'documentary' about Nessie, narrated by the monster itself? I saw it back in grade school but never even heard of it since.
That idea has been suggested by a number of people. Apparently, the bedrocks of both Loch Ness and Lake Champlain have big deposits of quartz, which some think has something to do with the monster phenomenon.
@@TheLoneAnimator your work is exceptional. I fantasize of collaboration between you and some others I am sure you are aware of here on TH-cam. You have a fond admirer in me! Thanks
This was extremely well done and would love to see more monster-based documentaries from you! I've also shared this video on as many giant monster-related Facebook groups as I could for more exposure.
@@TheLoneAnimator It does have a paper back format. It’s actually good and actually when you read the story further it makes you ask what’s more dangerous and more of a monster, the creature or us?
Oh yes. We especially have the Great Lake Monster from the north of Sweden. I'm a member of a society that works for its preservation and encourages research about it.
Very good, my favorites are at 2:59 and 4:34, I always like the weirder, more unconventional depictions. Multiple people have already brought up "The Loch" but I do like how ol' Stevie didn't take the cliche plesiosaur route. Another thing I find interesting is the giant salamander theory, there's a little blog page on it here: thelochnessgiantsalamander.blogspot.com/ Not that I believe in these cryptids, but the most interesting evidence for me are Robert Rines' sonar studies, which evidently picked up various signatures ranging from 20 to 30 feet in length moving from the bottom of the loch to about halfway. Pretty interesting stuff. I think if there ever were sightings that actually were an animal something like a large sturgeon would be most likely, or maybe a Greenland shark as Jeremy Wade concluded. But yeah cryptids are really interesting stuff, and I think your stop-motion art style could really have a field day with the weirder ones, like trunko or this insane depiction of the bunyip upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Bunyip_%281935%29.jpg What's your favorite cryptid? Mine's got to be the mothman by a good margin, I think that one just has by far the most interesting story behind the whole thing.
The more you look into a cryptozoological phenomenon, the weirder it gets. Personally, I'm kind of a fan of the invertebrate or giant snail theory. If we are to go by the Dutch DNA analysis of the lake's water, then Nessie ought to be a giant eel. But I don't think it's as simple as that. Loch Ness is obviously a location where people experience phenomena in a number of ways. I'm planning on doing more cryptid animations, in fact, I'm working on a short film concept where the mothman battles the slender man, because why not? :) As for my fave cryptid, I don't have one, but there are many that really interest me, like the mothman, the Jersey devil, Sweden's very own lake monster "Storie", and a bunch of others. I'd love to tackle the bunyip myth. Unfortunately, today in this present climate, that would be considered cultural appropriation. If such wolves start howling, I'll just have to ignore them.
@@TheLoneAnimator I'd say that the most commonly it has to do with eradicating the devil (sometimes literally as with st Prokopius) or just taming the nature itself...sometimes they are adaptations of pagan stories (Cuchulain/Arthur...not sure about the spelling) or even a Christianisation of a popular genre of heroic tales
@@TheLoneAnimator let me say it like that: "Youre a talented swedish magician. There are more ******* sea monsters in the great loch of ness then they got the likes of you"
@@TheLoneAnimator By your shoulder in the intro! Loved your Shadow out of Time, probably all of your material really, but the Lovecraft ones are close to my heart. Cthulhu Fhtagn!
@@MyklCarlton Ah yes, of course! There'll be more Lovecraft stuff eventually, and also some adaptations of the works by some of Lovecraft's literary buddies.
@@TheLoneAnimator Have you considered contacting the HPL Historical Society (creators of awesome films like their silent Call of Cthulhu and the Whisperer in Darkness, as well as the Dark Adventure Radio Theater dramatisations and much more). I'm sure you could find something you could collaborate on.
I'm thinking about that too. I just have to figure out what and how to do it. I did one short, fun thing based on an article by H G Wells a while back.
These stop motions are amazing depictions of these loch ness sightings! Would you mind if we feature some of the footage in our upcoming comedy podcast episode about the loch ness monster? We could link you for credit in the description box!
@@TheLoneAnimator just permission to use some of your stop motion clips, I know the loch ness monster episode could definitely make use of some of your loch ness monster stop motion
Still ways away of launching, we're aggregating 6 months of content then going to build up our short form content profiles before release, but if all goes well should have our loch ness episode air later this year
It's very hard to disprove what doesn't exist, that's why BS like this is so insidious, and that's why the burden of proof is ALWAYS on the person making the positive claim. Great work as always. Particularly liked the way you made the final frame of your Highland terrier nessie match the postcard. Just out of curiosity - how long did that little segment take to animate? How often do you animate a segment and then think that it looks all wrong and you start again?
I don't regard the Loch Ness monster as BS at all. I think of it as a phenomena we might never get an explanation for, but we shouldn't discard at least some experiences because of that. We have a similar monster phenomena in a lake in Sweden, and I've talked to people who have seen the creature. Some have been so close they could've touched it had they reached out their arm. Others have been in the company of 20 odd people during observations. The terrier Nessie didn't take very long to animate, a couple of hours, maybe. I'm not a very good animator and I accept that, but sometimes the stuff I do really needs a second take. That happens from time to time, and it often comes out of me pressing the puppet to perform in ways I didn't really build it for.
@@TheLoneAnimator Yeah, anyone who tells you they've seen a lake monster up close is a liar, delusional or hallucinating. Human senses are EXTREMELY fallible and we're also really bad at identifying things, especially at distance. Logs, seals, otters, under water features - all create water occurences that are easy to work up as something more dramatic. It's curious whenever you investigate cryptids that have a lot of sighting all of a sudden, then you realise some book or movie or news piece just came out and hey, wouldn't you know it, the sightings all look exactly like taht thing - even when it was fictitious. Th e fact taht "sightings" have occurred with large numbers of people means NOTHING. Thousands of people witnessed the virgin mary, and UFO attacks. Even the navy, with all their expertise, recently released those ridiculous UFO videos filmed from planes. If the world's experts with all their technology can make such a pathetic error, how much do you trust a bunch of ordinary people? I'm open - even optimistic about the possibility of as-yet unidentified animals - especially at sea, but the chance of large creatures walking around or swimming undiscovered in lakes is so close to zero as to be not worth considering. I was definitely not knocking your animations skills - far from it - I was just curious. Sometimes I animate on the computer and the movement makes sense in my head, but when I do the key frames and test animations it looks awful. I was just thinking how frustrating redos must be with what you do, and how hard it is to do the motion given that you cannot simply say "Start here and end up there". It's always a pleasure to see your work.
@@matbroomfield The problem is any kind of large, active animal is going to need a ton of energy, and you can't really get that in areas humans don't frequent because all the biological energy is concentrated near where the sun is. Furthermore in the loch you get a whole host of other issues such as the fact that there's been no physical evidence after all this time, you'd need a population, and anything that's a new species would need to be closely related to something that already exists, else you end up with a very implausible phylogenetic gap, though I still think Trey did this subject a disservice with his video on it.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Not sure I follow your logic there Frank. Whales are relatively active and exist where humans don't, and why are you assuming an "active" animal? I agree 100% that the lack of evidence in such a relatively small and thoroughly searched area is extremely damning. Also the need for a sustaining population to keep the sightings active over all these centuries. As for such a creature's relationship to other creatures, I don't really understand the point you're making there. Is somebody suggesting that it genetically arose from nowhere?
@@matbroomfield Well whales still have to surface is the point, and you're right in that they have the entire ocean where's the loch ness monster has only a lake, which makes its existence less likely. But to try to make things more clear, we are generally very good at cataloguing megafauna, as those animals typically have a remarkably clear presence. Discovering bigfoot would be like discovering a new species of bear in the US forests, not likely to put it mildly. It's true that some whales can still be very elusive, like beaked whales, but on the point of genetics they are still beaked whales. When we discover new species today they are always closely related to something we already knew existed, we don't find giant mollusks not related to anything, or giant worms that would have to be their own order, or a completely new kind of whale etc. I'm saying that if anything new were discovered it would have to be closely related to something we're already familiar with, because finding incredibly different and new genetic creatures isn't really something that's happened in the past 80 years. And yes, I was using the energetic quality more to respond to the fact that there is a persistent belief that there still could be megalodons, or plesiosaurs, or any other "action movie star" of an animal still lurking undiscovered. Of course a low-energy organism that happens to be large is much more plausible, and I don't find it unreasonable that there still could be big things down there left to find, like larger colossal squids or a new species of giant squid entirely, or something like a megamouth shark, but these aren't usually what people think of when they think cryptids or "random scary thing lurking undiscovered".
Wow, jag är verkligen glad att du har tagit dig an Kryptozoologi-ämnet, som även jag är intresserad av. Denna film var mycket intressant och jag gillade de olika versionerna. Särskilt paret Spicers observation. Den har jag aldrig hört talas om. Finns den att läsa någonstans online?
Tackar! :) Ja, kryptozoologi är ett mycket spännande ämne. Man kan inte avfärda alla observationer som lögn eller misstag. Här är en ingående analys av Spicer-fallet: lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2017/08/nessie-on-land-spicers-story.html
Answer Saint Paul cryptozoology bout creatures is unknown by science but lock ness monster is interesting there's a lot river monster a summer like Fight like champagne monster
Steve Alten had a really good book "The Loch" where the monster was a species of prehistoric, giant, oceanic eel. It would enter the Loch to spawn, following the salmon.
I've heard many good things about "The Loch", so I should check it out. I believe it's been optioned for a movie version.
I agree it's probably Steve Alten's best but overall I don't think he's that good an author, nevertheless he's the one who got me into reading so I gotta give him credit for that at least
Coincidentally enough, recent tests show there's actually a large subspecies of European eel living in the loch. They were separated during the Ice Age when the loch & near by rivers was created by receding glaciers.
I was so enamored with Nessie as a child. Seeing this in my subscriptions brought a huge smile to my face.
That's great; thanks! :)
I'm the same way. I remember seeing the "terrier" version of Nessie in a book on Loch Ness, in fact it ended with it. And seeing some the pictures made me think of it when it was shown.
Nessie is real.. so long as we let her be so! Long live Nessie!! 🐍💕
Indeed! :)
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I thoroughly enjoyed your article about the making of this wonderful Nessie film, Richard. You are *so talented!* 🐍👍
Dragons or fae, I heard a funny idea once that the bored shape shifter would stir up the locals with sightings but when the big explorers would come would turn into a person and watch from the shore, maybe even get in on the photos laughing as they find nothing.
Maybe Nessie is a trickster spirit. It makes sense, if you believe in such things.
Considering how Kelpies are supposed to be shape-shifters it's as good as an explanation as anything.
Here's one for you, I remember when they sailed a number of boats fitted with sonar to track Nessie. I can imagine the lot of them lounging on the shore with a picnic lunch and waving to the crews from the shore as they sailed past them. I can also imagine one of them listening to the Police's Synchronicity 2 which references the Loch Ness monster.
I absolutely love the creativity you used in re-imagining the earliest descriptions/illustrations of Nessie, starting at 2:52. Nessie never really scared me before, but your sculpting and stop motion gave it a really eerie and Lovecraftian vibe. Your invested narration about the folklore was very captivating. Thank you for this wonderful video.
Thanks! :) Most things in folklore have a creepy vibe about them, and Nessie is no exception, no matter how many funny postcards they put her on.
*Love this!* My Scottish dad took us as kids to Loch Ness! You told this beautifully!! 🏴
Thanks! I visited Loch Ness when I was 6. Sadly, Nessie was a no-show that day.
4:13
I had no idea who this guy is, but that picture alone already solidifies his status as "coolest guy in the world."
That is Tony "Doc" Shiels; magician, illusionist, folk musician, author, artist and prankster. Look him up. And the naked witches by his sides are his daughters, so I guess they're pretty cool too.
As a general rule I like all your creations but the ones inspired by old world art tend to be my favourite. This was really fantastic!
Thank you :) My Lovecraftian videos always get the best viewing numbers, but I'm interested in more subjects than that.
Cryptozoology!! 👏😍 (logic and fantasy!!) i love celtic and germanic mythology!!
No matter how you choose to view these phenomena, cryptozoology as a subject offers a lot of interesting stuff.
@@TheLoneAnimator yes indeed!! wonderful video!! i love it!! also deep words and beautiful about how the monster still there part of the mythology folklore...
I loved this! All your various puppets of the different Loch Ness Monster's are great!
Thanks, buddy! :) They took a while to build.
I remember this line from a Loch Ness documentary where the researcher remarked how scientists might debunk the monster then one day a creature emerges from the Loch saying "Boo sucks to you scientists."
Yes, that seems to be a particularly amusing and noteworthy part of the phenomena :)
I think almost every Norseman (I'm a Faroe Islander) is born into a culture full of folklore and healthy superstition, making us inherently curious when it comes to mythological beasts (cryptids) and strange phenomena
Forbannað gott, frændi mín. Drív á! Skál
We have our fair share of lake monsters here in Sweden too :) Skål på dig med!
lovely story.
Thank you :)
While I came for the Lovecraft adaptations, I love this new direction as well. Hope to see more of this in the future as well, and as always - amazing work!
Thank you! I hope to branch out more and do other stuff than just Lovecraftian adaptations. But there'll always be stop-motion monsters in my films.
Just had a dream about the Loch Ness last night. What a coincidence! Beautiful as always
Obviously, you were tuning in somehow :)
bluworm has that effect. He's majick. Something similar happened to me a couple of years back and I told him in a comment. I think for no reason he popped into my head and I started thinking about his cool videos, then a new video appeared on my subs page after a long absence.
@@psisky I remember that :) Obviously, it's something that happens.
@@TheLoneAnimator We might be pleiadians ; )
Investigators should have asked Alister Crowley if he had ever seen anything unusual
According to some people, Crowley created the Loch Ness monster through a magic ritual.
I’m amazed by the beauty of those Stop-Motion shots, they look so clean !
Thanks:) After Effects helps a bit!
The first thing I thought of when I saw the critter of the Spicer account at 2:55 was a cowrie, although the proboscis was far too long.
Of all the mollusks I've kept over the years, my favorites by far!
That's one heck of a cowrie :)
Hey... If the ancient Scots have been talking about weird things in that lake for centuries, and we're still talking about weird things in the lake... There's probably something spooky in the lake- don't go near the lake.
That's certainly how I look on Loch Ness.
If you haven't seen it, I bet you'd like Incident at Loch Ness. It's a shakey-cam horror movie/pseudo-documentary about Werner Herzog making a movie at Loch Ness about the monster as a social and psychological phenomenon. The monster shows up late but the minimalist effects are quite effective; the bulk of the movie is a prickly satire on filmmaking.
I have seen Incident At Loch Ness, and I liked it. When the monster appears it looks very credible. It's just a glimpse of something.
Hmm... interesting! First time I've heard of it coming onto land. I knew it went close and wrecked boats but never knew it was claimed that she went on land. I love the Dino-Scottie Hybrid theory too😁🏴
It seems many of the first observations of Nessie were on land. Oh, the Dino-Scottie hybrid is doubtless one of the most plausible explanations :)
Epic film! I feel sure that the giant mollusks could earn their keep in another film. Read FW Holiday's book years ago - the vision of a boneless giant has stuck with me ever since!
I'm actually leaning more and more into the giant slug theory.
Looking at these early sightings really shows how the 1925 adaptation of The Lost World & King Kong effected the later sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. Especially after the 1934 hoax.
The Brontosaurus in the swamp is a very Nessie-like apparition.
That was so cool. I recognize some of those incarnations of Nessie from 1970s book illustrations! Great work!
Thanks! It's a fave subject of mine. Nessie was often in the news when I grew up in the 1970s and 80s.
The best explanation is a gigantic eel.
It's the latest one, anyway.
Well done, good sir! Came here from DeviantArt, impressive as always!
Thanks for watching my art both here and on DeviantArt :)
@@TheLoneAnimator My pleasure, keep up the great work!
No joke still to this day you do amazing work. I just think you need to be found more. Ty for all the old god stuff you have done.
Thanks! Problem is, nobody gives a shit about the kind of stuff I do. The tastes of the world have turned and gone too different. BUT, I have nothing else to do with my life, so I'll keep going, I guess.
@@TheLoneAnimator You got my support and tbh with lovecraft coming back even more now. I think you could find a bigger audience. I am going to see what I can do to help.
@@TheLoneAnimator never stop
Remember there will always be someone who thinks your work is amazing, like me
It's really funny. I had this idea of doing a short documentary style film about the different interpretations of the monsters of loch ness with stop motion inspired by your amazing work. And low and behold you had already done it.
But that doesn't mean you can't do your version :)
Really really cool! Still want to see Empire of the Necromancers....but this was awesome
I'm glad you enjoyed it, though it was sorely lacking in re-animated mummies.
I found this channel last night and have now watched near all of your videos. I am sad there are not more. You certainly deserve more subs and patrons for your incredible work.
Many thanks :) More videos are coming!
You've done it again! Amazing as usual!
I remember going to Loch ness back in Summer 2012.
Thanks! I visited Loch Ness when I was 6 years old, back in 1980. Nessie was a no show, unfortunately. I did buy a bunch of merchandise, however.
@@TheLoneAnimator Lovely, I didn't see her as well. I thought I did but it was just waves.
There's a fun book written by Steve Alten "The Loch" which is cannon with his "Meg" series that was made into a movie a few years back. He has a fun way of mixing science with science fiction to make his stories more plausible. I wont spoil the theory he brings up about the monster in the book, but it is one that is not often covered. The Meg world goes down an insane rabbit hole, I recommend it. Also your work is incredible, I cannot get enough of it!
Thanks! I haven't checked out The Loch yet. I guess I'm waiting for the movie version :)
As a longtime fan of your channel, it’s good to see that you’ve never gone to far under the TH-cam radar, and have still remained.
Well, I guess I have a small but faithful audience. Thanks for sticking with me :)
Can you imagine coming into contact close up with one of these creatures you would be on happy tablets for the rest of your life.
I still believe that 'Nessie' is some kind of mutant slug, able to walk on land efficiently, albeit rarely.
I'm also a fan of the slug theory.
This was the first time I had heard of the slug theory.
I've seen some interpretations with fur. Kinda strange for a Plesiosaur, but makes sense for the colder climate.
Well, the furry ones are a part of the giant mammal theory. And sure; why not? :)
I remember seeing that picture of the dinosaur/ terrier Loch Ness monster at the end of a book about the Loch Ness Monster. I believe the book was called "The Mystery of Loch Ness." I read it when I was a kid, possibly forty years ago. Disney did a short, part animation and part live action which I believe was called "Man, Myth, and Monster" and it was shown originally before Pete's Dragon back in the 70s. What is good about it is it deals more with the myth rather than any sort of proof, and even the monster - voiced by the same actor who did Whinny the Pooh - says he's avoiding scientific proof.
I've only seen stills of the animated Disney monster. Didn't know it was connected to Pete's Dragon.
@@TheLoneAnimator I read about it in passing, maybe it was on the site where I watched it on You Tube.
This is great, I love cryptozoology! All the different puppets are so cool, could you maybe make a short, unedited video where you showcase them without the effects? Just so that we could betters see them. My personal favourite is the one with the long legs, seen on the street.
Thanks :) I do talk about all the puppets on one of my Patreon videos. BUT I'll also make a blog post about the making of the video, and you'll see crisp and clear stills of all the puppets there. If you're subscribing to my channel, you'll get a notice when that blog post is up.
Great video! A lot of creativity and fun- excellent production!
Thank you :) It was certainly a fun project to do.
A pleasant narration. Nicely done.
Thank you :)
I've kept watching some of your videos and I'm also a fan stop motion films. I just wish that live action movies today would just use Stop Motion sequences just like how the late Ray Harryhausen did with his films.
I think the way stop-motion is being made today would certainly be a competitive FX technique. The animation produced by Laika is now so smooth I can't tell it from CGI.
I love your depictions of early Nessie
Thanks! They're wonderfully strange :)
The pictish are awesome and very mysterious, not too much known about them
Pretty much the same with my forefathers, the Norse.
@@TheLoneAnimator love ur work by the way
The world is stranger than people would like to accept. Much is real that we cannot understand which makes us uncomfortable in our limitations.
Right! We should let go of the notion that we know everything. In our hubris, we likely miss so many things that would otherwise be revealed to us.
1:56 actually made me jump just a little
Then my work is done! :)
your work is so well done and charming and just wonderful, tack så mycket please keep making all these wonderful cryptid and Lovecraft pieces of work :)
Thanks! I'm making them as fast as I can :)
More on cryptids, please! This is a full video essay/documentary beatifully illustrated with your stop motion magic and masterfully narrated as usual.
I'm thinking about more cryptid content. Glad you enjoyed this one :)
beautiful work as usual, hope you and your loved ones are doing well during these crazy times :)
Thanks! No virus in my household as yet. Hope you're doing fine too.
Man I fucking love your creature stop motions!
I love making them, so thanks for watching :)
@@TheLoneAnimator No problem! I'm just a fan doing what a fan's gonna do.
Wow so many monsters in Loch Ness!
It seems pretty crowded!
@@TheLoneAnimator do you plan also apaptation of other monster modern myth? Mokele-mbembe african dinosaur, as exemple and etc? All this cryptozoology is so awesome! I want to belive!
Awesome! I like your creativity and the work and effort you put in your videos. Someone should give you enough money to make a big movie.
Thanks! Well, I'm happy when people just give me some money at all to help me carry on my projects :)
I love this. This is wonderful.
Thank you so much!
I always enjoy the look of your videos
Thank you! I put a lot of effort into that part.
Am fascinated with Nessie and loved the animated versions you supplied. Great job
Thanks! I'm a Nessie devotee myself. It's one of these mysteries that feel like we could be on the verge of solving it.
AWESOME ..... Can`t wait to see whats next :-)
Thanks! I can't wait either :)
Excellent work " I enjoy all you items well done
Thank you! :)
As a fan of your work, and having an interest in cryptozoology myself, I really like the idea of you merging your interests in cryptozoology with your animation skills. I especially liked the dino-terrier and mollusk model-work. I would like to see you eventually tackle other cryptids like the thunderbird, dogman, dab-sog, mothman, and beast of bray road. Or, UFO encounter critters like the Hopkinsville Hobgoblins, if your interests take you there.
Glad you enjoyed my Nessies :) I'm thinking of doing more cryptozoological interpretations, but it's a huge subject. I have to figure out where to go next.
One of the monsters looked like Man-Bear-Pig
I guess it does :)
YOU. MEAN. THE. RAT. MONSTER????
I'm speechless. More genius from the lone animator.
First Lovecraft, now Nessie. 2 of my most favourite subject matter 👏👏👏👏
Throw in some Bigfoot material now & I can die an incredibly happy man 😁
Thanks; I'm humbled by your praise :) I'm thinking about doing something with Bigfoot, but the project hasn't materialized properly yet.
More for me to look forward to then.
Thank you again for sharing your vision with us.
Long may it continue
Nessie is horrible to gaze upon if you see it.
I bet she is.
Great work, as usual!
Thank you, Count :)
This gave me an idea! What if someone did a speculative evolution ecosystem with all these loch ness monster designs being animals preying on eachother and coexisting.
That would be one overcrowded lake :)
@@TheLoneAnimator You have a point there, but I'm interested to see if it could work.
I love your stop-motion critters, and I always loved Nessie. By the way, did you ever see a brief Disney animated 'documentary' about Nessie, narrated by the monster itself? I saw it back in grade school but never even heard of it since.
Thanks! :) I've seen stills from the Disney Nessie, but never the actual film. Looks fun!
Do you think that Loch Ness might be a gateway to another dimension since people keep seeing monsters that don't match each other's description?
That idea has been suggested by a number of people. Apparently, the bedrocks of both Loch Ness and Lake Champlain have big deposits of quartz, which some think has something to do with the monster phenomenon.
well so if I understand, to call the beast we have to hold a sword with two naked woman... I love the idea !
I have a bunch of swords and I can probably engage at least one naked woman, so maybe I should give it a go..?
@@TheLoneAnimator yep, I approve
Some whisper it might be...'cliff richard'.
Out for a swim?
@@TheLoneAnimator lol. who knows.
No dislikes, I love it
Me Too
I too love Cryptozoology! Great video!
Thank you! Cryptozoology is an endless source of fascination.
Fantastic!
Thank you! Cheers!
@@TheLoneAnimator your work is exceptional. I fantasize of collaboration between you and some others I am sure you are aware of here on TH-cam.
You have a fond admirer in me!
Thanks
This was extremely well done and would love to see more monster-based documentaries from you! I've also shared this video on as many giant monster-related Facebook groups as I could for more exposure.
Thank you so much :)
You know I got a book on Kindle from the 90s called Loch it’s part of the Journey into the Unknown series
Sounds familiar, but I don't have it myself.
@@TheLoneAnimator It does have a paper back format. It’s actually good and actually when you read the story further it makes you ask what’s more dangerous and more of a monster, the creature or us?
Excellent video!!
Thanks! :)
Your work is beautiful and inspiring
Doesn't The Scandinavian Region Has It's Own Share Water Beasties Haunting The Fjords? We Like To See Your Take on Those!
Oh yes. We especially have the Great Lake Monster from the north of Sweden. I'm a member of a society that works for its preservation and encourages research about it.
Very good, my favorites are at 2:59 and 4:34, I always like the weirder, more unconventional depictions. Multiple people have already brought up "The Loch" but I do like how ol' Stevie didn't take the cliche plesiosaur route. Another thing I find interesting is the giant salamander theory, there's a little blog page on it here: thelochnessgiantsalamander.blogspot.com/
Not that I believe in these cryptids, but the most interesting evidence for me are Robert Rines' sonar studies, which evidently picked up various signatures ranging from 20 to 30 feet in length moving from the bottom of the loch to about halfway. Pretty interesting stuff. I think if there ever were sightings that actually were an animal something like a large sturgeon would be most likely, or maybe a Greenland shark as Jeremy Wade concluded.
But yeah cryptids are really interesting stuff, and I think your stop-motion art style could really have a field day with the weirder ones, like trunko or this insane depiction of the bunyip upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Bunyip_%281935%29.jpg
What's your favorite cryptid? Mine's got to be the mothman by a good margin, I think that one just has by far the most interesting story behind the whole thing.
The more you look into a cryptozoological phenomenon, the weirder it gets. Personally, I'm kind of a fan of the invertebrate or giant snail theory. If we are to go by the Dutch DNA analysis of the lake's water, then Nessie ought to be a giant eel. But I don't think it's as simple as that. Loch Ness is obviously a location where people experience phenomena in a number of ways. I'm planning on doing more cryptid animations, in fact, I'm working on a short film concept where the mothman battles the slender man, because why not? :) As for my fave cryptid, I don't have one, but there are many that really interest me, like the mothman, the Jersey devil, Sweden's very own lake monster "Storie", and a bunch of others. I'd love to tackle the bunyip myth. Unfortunately, today in this present climate, that would be considered cultural appropriation. If such wolves start howling, I'll just have to ignore them.
driving out/killing/taming various monsters out of the wilderness using once faith is a very common early Christian hero trope
Monsters are often represented as something pagan, so they're a perfect foil for any would-be christian hero.
@@TheLoneAnimator I'd say that the most commonly it has to do with eradicating the devil (sometimes literally as with st Prokopius) or just taming the nature itself...sometimes they are adaptations of pagan stories (Cuchulain/Arthur...not sure about the spelling) or even a Christianisation of a popular genre of heroic tales
@@kalinmir As monsters function as very effecting cultural symbols for various things, defeating a monster is an equally symbolic action.
Good very good.
Many thanks :)
Excellent video dude hope you are keeping well! ☺
Thank you! I'm not afflicted with any viruses yet. I hope you're OK too :)
@@TheLoneAnimator ☺👍
First to like! Amazing, as always. So, you are a columnist? Cool.
Thanks! Yes, I write in a quarterly magazine about cryptozoology. There's lots to talk about.
The lake of monsters
Apparently :)
@@TheLoneAnimator let me say it like that: "Youre a talented swedish magician. There are more ******* sea monsters in the great loch of ness then they got the likes of you"
More criptids,please!
There will be, in some shape or form.
Love the Great Race model! Now I have to find where you used it.
There's a Great Race model in this one? Where? :)
@@TheLoneAnimator By your shoulder in the intro! Loved your Shadow out of Time, probably all of your material really, but the Lovecraft ones are close to my heart. Cthulhu Fhtagn!
@@MyklCarlton Ah yes, of course! There'll be more Lovecraft stuff eventually, and also some adaptations of the works by some of Lovecraft's literary buddies.
@@TheLoneAnimator Have you considered contacting the HPL Historical Society (creators of awesome films like their silent Call of Cthulhu and the Whisperer in Darkness, as well as the Dark Adventure Radio Theater dramatisations and much more). I'm sure you could find something you could collaborate on.
@@MyklCarlton No, I haven't. But I do enjoy their productions.
HOW 'BOUT SOMETHING ON THE FUTURE EVOLUTION OF EARTH CREATURES?!
I'm thinking about that too. I just have to figure out what and how to do it. I did one short, fun thing based on an article by H G Wells a while back.
These stop motions are amazing depictions of these loch ness sightings! Would you mind if we feature some of the footage in our upcoming comedy podcast episode about the loch ness monster? We could link you for credit in the description box!
Sure! What do you need from me?
@@TheLoneAnimator just permission to use some of your stop motion clips, I know the loch ness monster episode could definitely make use of some of your loch ness monster stop motion
Still ways away of launching, we're aggregating 6 months of content then going to build up our short form content profiles before release, but if all goes well should have our loch ness episode air later this year
@@mightymythologicalcreature6342 Would you like the original file or will you simply download the TH-cam clip?
It's very hard to disprove what doesn't exist, that's why BS like this is so insidious, and that's why the burden of proof is ALWAYS on the person making the positive claim.
Great work as always. Particularly liked the way you made the final frame of your Highland terrier nessie match the postcard. Just out of curiosity - how long did that little segment take to animate? How often do you animate a segment and then think that it looks all wrong and you start again?
I don't regard the Loch Ness monster as BS at all. I think of it as a phenomena we might never get an explanation for, but we shouldn't discard at least some experiences because of that. We have a similar monster phenomena in a lake in Sweden, and I've talked to people who have seen the creature. Some have been so close they could've touched it had they reached out their arm. Others have been in the company of 20 odd people during observations.
The terrier Nessie didn't take very long to animate, a couple of hours, maybe. I'm not a very good animator and I accept that, but sometimes the stuff I do really needs a second take. That happens from time to time, and it often comes out of me pressing the puppet to perform in ways I didn't really build it for.
@@TheLoneAnimator Yeah, anyone who tells you they've seen a lake monster up close is a liar, delusional or hallucinating. Human senses are EXTREMELY fallible and we're also really bad at identifying things, especially at distance. Logs, seals, otters, under water features - all create water occurences that are easy to work up as something more dramatic.
It's curious whenever you investigate cryptids that have a lot of sighting all of a sudden, then you realise some book or movie or news piece just came out and hey, wouldn't you know it, the sightings all look exactly like taht thing - even when it was fictitious.
Th e fact taht "sightings" have occurred with large numbers of people means NOTHING. Thousands of people witnessed the virgin mary, and UFO attacks. Even the navy, with all their expertise, recently released those ridiculous UFO videos filmed from planes. If the world's experts with all their technology can make such a pathetic error, how much do you trust a bunch of ordinary people?
I'm open - even optimistic about the possibility of as-yet unidentified animals - especially at sea, but the chance of large creatures walking around or swimming undiscovered in lakes is so close to zero as to be not worth considering.
I was definitely not knocking your animations skills - far from it - I was just curious. Sometimes I animate on the computer and the movement makes sense in my head, but when I do the key frames and test animations it looks awful. I was just thinking how frustrating redos must be with what you do, and how hard it is to do the motion given that you cannot simply say "Start here and end up there".
It's always a pleasure to see your work.
@@matbroomfield The problem is any kind of large, active animal is going to need a ton of energy, and you can't really get that in areas humans don't frequent because all the biological energy is concentrated near where the sun is. Furthermore in the loch you get a whole host of other issues such as the fact that there's been no physical evidence after all this time, you'd need a population, and anything that's a new species would need to be closely related to something that already exists, else you end up with a very implausible phylogenetic gap, though I still think Trey did this subject a disservice with his video on it.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Not sure I follow your logic there Frank. Whales are relatively active and exist where humans don't, and why are you assuming an "active" animal?
I agree 100% that the lack of evidence in such a relatively small and thoroughly searched area is extremely damning. Also the need for a sustaining population to keep the sightings active over all these centuries. As for such a creature's relationship to other creatures, I don't really understand the point you're making there. Is somebody suggesting that it genetically arose from nowhere?
@@matbroomfield Well whales still have to surface is the point, and you're right in that they have the entire ocean where's the loch ness monster has only a lake, which makes its existence less likely.
But to try to make things more clear, we are generally very good at cataloguing megafauna, as those animals typically have a remarkably clear presence. Discovering bigfoot would be like discovering a new species of bear in the US forests, not likely to put it mildly.
It's true that some whales can still be very elusive, like beaked whales, but on the point of genetics they are still beaked whales. When we discover new species today they are always closely related to something we already knew existed, we don't find giant mollusks not related to anything, or giant worms that would have to be their own order, or a completely new kind of whale etc.
I'm saying that if anything new were discovered it would have to be closely related to something we're already familiar with, because finding incredibly different and new genetic creatures isn't really something that's happened in the past 80 years.
And yes, I was using the energetic quality more to respond to the fact that there is a persistent belief that there still could be megalodons, or plesiosaurs, or any other "action movie star" of an animal still lurking undiscovered.
Of course a low-energy organism that happens to be large is much more plausible, and I don't find it unreasonable that there still could be big things down there left to find, like larger colossal squids or a new species of giant squid entirely, or something like a megamouth shark, but these aren't usually what people think of when they think cryptids or "random scary thing lurking undiscovered".
Which one of these characters/creatures would be elected president?
I'd go with any of them instead of what's currently on offer.
Commenting for the algorithm.
I'll take that :)
Wow, jag är verkligen glad att du har tagit dig an Kryptozoologi-ämnet, som även jag är intresserad av. Denna film var mycket intressant och jag gillade de olika versionerna. Särskilt paret Spicers
observation. Den har jag aldrig hört talas om. Finns den att läsa någonstans online?
Tackar! :) Ja, kryptozoologi är ett mycket spännande ämne. Man kan inte avfärda alla observationer som lögn eller misstag. Här är en ingående analys av Spicer-fallet: lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2017/08/nessie-on-land-spicers-story.html
Tack så mycket. Intressant. Ser fram emot dina framtida Kryptozoologi-filmer.
Answer Saint Paul cryptozoology bout creatures is unknown by science but lock ness monster is interesting there's a lot river monster a summer like Fight like champagne monster
please do Sasquatch
I probably will. I just have to figure out how to put together the video.
Dig the crypto content
Thank you! :) There might be more on the subject eventually.
Nice, sixth here!
Glad to have you! :)
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