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- A short fantasy fan film featuring monsters from the 1977 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual.
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It never fails; you have to go to the dungeon just to get an owlbear feather, and the wife adds a dozen more things to your list to pick up.
And when he got home he not only didn't get those things, he turned into a bat as well.
I cheered when the Umber Hulk showed up to battle the Owlbear. That was a classic Harryhausen moment! Wonderful stuff!
We thought we couldn't make a D & D monster film without having two of them fight each other, Harryhausen-style :)
same here too, two stop motion monsters beefin' it out in a brawl brings me back
Great job! I love how the whole thing has the feel of the original AD&D before it got overly flashy and glossy. There's a real sense of the late 70s/early 80s in the design and monsters. Made me feel like I was 12 again back in 81.
Thanks! That's sort of why I did this film. I feel that the Photoshop "oil panted" illustrations of the modern D & D publications are too slick and not personal enough. I like the rough edges of the original bunch of modules.
This makes me wish that Harryhausen was able to do a movie with classic AD&D monsters in his stop-motion style. It would have been wonderful.
The smoothness of the animation is phenomenal, Harryhausen would be impressed!
Thanks! That's high praise indeed :)
Ray Harryhausen is strong with this one.
He is! I wonder what he would've made out of the D & D Monster Manual?
To a new world of gods and monsters!
I wish that 'Queen of the Spiders' was a whole miniseries and every single monster in it looked just like this.
I actually shouted aloud when the beasts fought! So amazing! AND A RUST MONSTER!!!!! I remember that from an assorted mini plastic monster kit all the way back in the 70's. Thanks for this. Can't get enough.
Glad you enjoyed our mini-adventure :) I've got a few small plastic D & D monsters too, including the rust monster. Though I didn't know they were D & D when I got them.
This makes my inner thirteen-year-old very happy.
I used to have a huge box of toy monsters when I was a child. I had no name for a lot of them were until I bought the Monster Manual. It was then that I learned that I owned a rust monster, two bulettes, an umber hulk, and later when I bought the Fiend Folio, I learned that I had a grell.
That's my situation too! I had a bunch of cheap-looking small plastic monsters, and only lately realized that they're a line-up of classic D & D critters.
Letting my mom throw them out when I got older is one of my biggest regrets. But I still have my 1st edition Monster Manual.
I had these too. They actually predate D&D as I can remember having them around 74 or 75. I did some research and found this awesome article.
"Little known Sci-Fi facts: How A Cheap Bag of Toys inspired D&D Monsters". Cut and paste into your search engine and it should come up. I couldn't post a link for some reason.
Shoutout to the actor in this one!! He feels really at home in this world! Very convincing performance!
Oh, and the human was pretty good too!
I'll tell both actors you appreciate their work :)
My wife and daughter happened to see this one, and they were very impressed with the Owl Bear. As usual -- super awesome! :)
Thanks!! Glad to hear you're spreading my poison to the rest of the family :)
I loved this!
Need in the next one: Displacer Beast!
Glad you enjoyed it :) Though I suspect this will be our only foray into the world of D & D.
Thank you for sharing your vision & talents.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching :D
Excellent work, brings back fun memories of being a young teen, you obviously would've been a good DM !
I was a DM a few times, and I think I did a decent job of it :)
Thanks again! This was awesome! Love the Beholder and the Rust monster! Great animation!
Thanks! It was a fun project to recreate these monsters as puppets and bring them to life.
Guys, this was wonderful. I'm a huge fan of owlbears, so you had me from the beginning. But I really loved your celebration of the old monster designs, by people like Dave Sutherland, Tom Wham, and others. I'm producing a documentary right now called "Eye of the Beholder: The Art of D&D," and this really captured everything that inspired me to make our movie in the first place. Well done!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this, especially since you're a part of the RPG tradition. I think we come from pretty much the same background, with the same fascination for that primitive, unique magic of early D & D. Good luck with your documentary!
2:02 That's a really cool creature ! I love it !
It's the infamous rust monster :)
This ignites memories of my old AD&D days, this is the kind of stuff that would happen to us. Many, many, MANY kudos to you my friend
Glad we could take you back :) Thanks for watching !
Absolutely loving your work man - nailed those 1st ed. Monster Manual monsters. That Rust Monster is just
Thanks! The rust monster is an old fave :)
This is so amazing! More please!
I'd like to do more classic fantasy, so more is coming :)
How. Has. This. Not. Gotten. More. VIEWS?!
The TH-cam algorithm is usually not a fan of my stuff.
This piece of art is Underappreciated!
I'm glad you like it, though :)
GORGEOUS! And, thanks for the nod, guys!
You're very welcome! :D It was John's idea to include our esteemed colleagues in some way.
Another absolutely excellent work Richard! I still got the Monster Manual in my bookshelf...
Thanks! :) I've got a slightly battered copy in my bookshelf too.
2:30 the Owlbear is just like, “really dude? What made you think that’d work?”
Owlbears have balls of steel!
Critical Fail!
Great job capturing the odd creatures of original D&D. All I can say is I’d love to see more like this.
Thanks! I tried to keep the look of the original Monster Guide critters 😊
Man, old school owlbears looked ridiculous.
But kind of cool too, I think :)
LOL!! Looks like one of my D&D adventures way back when. Nice creature effects! Awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it, and that you think it can conjure up the old D & D atmosphere :)
This is so underrated. I wish I had the skill and especially the money to create such cool puppets like these.
Thanks :) My puppets are actually not that expensive to make. the materials I use only costs $15-20 per puppet, or so. The great investment is time and developing the knowledge and skills necessary to make the puppets work and look good.
@@TheLoneAnimator Oh, okay. Thank you for the info. Does making the molds and stuff cost a lot of money though? And could you possibly make a tutorial on how you made your puppets?
@@WVNUK The most expensive material I use is dental plaster for my molds. It's very hard and lasts forever, through endless castings. Hobby plaster is softer but can be used for molds where the need for delicate details isn't as important. It's also cheaper than dental plaster. If you look in my list of videos on my TH-cam page you'll find a few videos that detail how I make my puppets.
@@TheLoneAnimator Oh okay. What was the easiest to make out of all those D&D puppets?
Watch out Blueworm-they are after your teeths
I'll keep a lookout for any teeth hunters!
Very nostalgic for some reason... so good!
I'm glad you think so :)
I wanna say this, if i ever had an animators help to produce a fantasy-adventure-mystery series, i'd take you. Its just too good
Thanks! A fantasy mystery series with stop-motion monsters sounds like a winner :)
@@TheLoneAnimator Map of the pacific
A mix of subnautica, godzilla, lovecraft with a tinge pirates of the caribbean
This is NOT funny. One of my friends was killed by an owlbear.
That's life, I'm afraid!
Haha, great animation though : P
I'm gonna share this one.
I could see a few Clark Ashton Smith books done like this. To go with them. Great films.
CAS is a great favorite of mine, and I have plans on adapting a few of his stories.
Weirdest scavenger hunt I've ever seen! XD
And we never found out why he was on it..
Very well done! A fun fantasy adventure!
Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun making it :)
The dude from the hunger games sent me here
AWESOME !!! Thanks for posting ! :-)
Thanks for watching! :)
Best Production Quality yet!
Thanks! But I hope I can do better :)
Nicely done.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Moral of this video . An owlbear my be dangerous. But a beholder is the real danger in any dungeon
That will always be true!
Some one collects spell components for a Wizard one of the path ways to go becoming a warlock I love it
AWESOME, no words
Best response I could hope for. No words necessary :)
This was fun to watch. Great job!
Thanks for watching! :)
PRO WRESTLING AND D&D! -Mr. Svennsen, Is There NOTHING You CAN'T DO?!
You don't know half of what I can't do, but I appreciate the positive feedback :)
What's scarier than an owl bear? An owl DEER
Could be!
Thank you for making this!!
Thanks for watching :)
Cool.
The hideous old man was especially well animated.
haha :D
Very nice , loved the puppets
Thanks! :)
There should be screenings of your stuff in cinemas!
My plan is that there will be, eventually :)
If I was a cinema owner, I would make special free screenings in the weekend so that many people could see your Films in the magic of the big screen !
How does this have only 522 likes? it's hilarious. Also, love the owlbear.
I wouldn't mind more likes and views :)
That was fun. Also funny
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
love it. another great one
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
This must be the prequel to the Song of the Bats
This is bat transformation via Beholder magic, so it's probably not the same bat-i-fied guys :)
This is awesome
Thank you :)
That was tremendous fun, and the shock of recognition of the rust monster from my old toy box was an added kicker. I've still got most of them, but I cannot find the armadillo creature. I loved the monster set to as well.
Glad you enjoyed it :) I have a few of the tiny plastic creatures, some of the jointed character toys and a few of the bendy and pvc figures. There was quite a lot of D&D toys back in the day.
Believe it or not, I think the owlbear had roamed abroad in popular fiction before D&D, as I'm fairly sure I saw one in a reprint of a Buck Rogers newspaper strip. Also, did you ever collect the rubber jigglers/uglies? They were a massive part of my childhood, and it turns out one set was taken from original designs by Basil Wolverton.
I haven't seen the owlbear outside of D&D, but it's quite possible since in the early days Gygax and co lifted monsters from all over the place. I didn't collect jigglers/uglies as a thing, since I wasn't aware of the concept. I just bought cool rubber monsters when I found them. Didn't know about the Wolverton connection! A while ago Basil Wolverton's son and family gave me the blessing to adapt some of his dad's scifi comics into TH-cam videos, so hopefully I can get on with that this year.
Some Basil Wolverton adaptations? That would be excellent, I can't wait!
I think I feal legitimate dread when I see the Beholder. I'm very glad it's a fictional monster
Yeah; take a good look - I read somewhere that it's getting a makeover, or something, to make it less offensive, or something.
@@TheLoneAnimator aw thats not fun
I love olwbear
So do I :)
Better then the last D&D movie. Or any D&D movie for that matter...
The track record hasn't been stellar so far :)
Adorable. Nice animation
Thank you! :D
That rust monster, what a jerk😁
Rust monsters tend to be jerks :)
This is so Freaking Awesome!!!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
if you see a owlbear run like there is no tomorrow do the same
Maybe it was his first owl bear?
All of your videos are awesome, but this is my favorite if only because of all the DND references! :)
Thanks! I'm a big fan of the original D & D products. That's where my heart is :)
this is amazing
Thanks! :D
Great scene!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@TheLoneAnimator A lot!!!
Yes yes eyes of beholder!
One of my all-time fave monsters :)
Another great one! I feel like I've commented on this one already.
Feel free to comment as often as you like :)
@@TheLoneAnimator right on
loved this very cool!
Thanks for watching :)
0:32 OHHHH SHIIIITTT A RAAT
Excellent video dude!😃👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@TheLoneAnimator 😎👍
Amazing! one of your best yet!
Thank you! :D
Awesome Please make more
If you're thinking of more fantasy in this style, there will be more of that later this year :)
Hilligoss wine and Cole pieces...I see what you did there...
It was the idea of John, who plays the ill-fated hero :)
Seen stuff on the owlbear from your blog. Very interesting.
Thanks! It's agood monster to build and animate :)
Of course he died to the beholder. Do you have any idea how hard those things are to fight?
I do, for I have encountered them during my 1980's gaming sessions.
Nice
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Maybe it's just me, but I hear some sound effects/monster sounds taken from War of the Monsters. Now, maybe the sound effects/monster sounds came from an earlier source, but I know them from War of the Monsters.
I used some sound effects from a Universal Pictures sound library, but maybe there's a crossover with US and Japanese materials(?)
i betting this is some Dungeon Master's unfair DnD campaign.
And I think I've been in it a couple of times!
@@TheLoneAnimator i assume the new guy at the end is the same player who rolled a new character sheet.
Hay cool i am inspire now thank you...
Glad to hear that :) Thanks for your comment.
Hurrah!!!!!!!
Can't wish for a better reaction! :)
That was fuckin dope!!
Glad you enjoyed it; thanks! :)
please make a feature film!
When I get rich and famous..
try crowdfunding! i'm a sure donator.
I know all of these monsters!
Then you've had a proper upbringing :)
I have always been a big Dungeons & Dragons fan!
Game night at my house!
And mine too (but way back in the 1980's).
@@TheLoneAnimator I'm thinking this weekend...
You just made a better Dungeons and Dragons adventure than that multimillion dollar stinker Hollywood shat out...
Well, mine is at least mercifully short :)
You need more likes and views
I'm not disagreeing :)
More please.
Glad you enjoyed it :) More films are on their way, but probably no more D & D fan films.
Like abomination of yondo. Face hugging mummy aliens.
I'm actually working on an adaptation of The Abominations of Yondo :)
I'm seeing what looks like motion blur. Is this go-motion?
No, the motion blur is applied using tools in After Effects.
it looks like dungeon.
It is a dungeons (of sorts) :)
the animation is so smooth like there were people in suits instead of puppets,did you use motion blur?
Yes, I'm using a home-made motion blur in After Effects.
how do you time movement when animating,do you know the number of frames to take in advance or do you take a bunch of them and then edit it later?
I animate with 25 frames per second, so I usually keep a check on how many frames I do for each movement, like a footstep, the turn of a head, and so on. But I actually have an old analogue stop watch that belonged to my dad. For some movements I perform the motion myself and time it. That way I know exactly how many frames is needed. But sometimes I just go with the flow, and try to feel my way through the animation. For example, the fight between the owlbear and the umber hulk in this video wasn't timed at all, I just winged it and went with what felt right, which seems to be how Ray Harryhausen preferred to work.
thank you for the reply,how reliable is wire armature,does it snap often?
Actually, I've used aluminum wires for many years now, and they haven't snapped even once (touch wood). I bundle a number of wires together, so should a few snap, then the puppet will still hold its position during animation.
D and D monsters...... Interesting
They are among my fave monsters.
bluworm don't get me wrong the monsters are good as well as the D and D monsters too but can you do one of godzilla fighting hulk? I would watch the hell out of that
bluworm hey what's that bug monster thing?
This is really good. Will you be making a "behind the scenes" video where you show us how you made it?
Thanks :) I'm afraid I don't have any footage of my building the puppets, but you'll find post on my blog detailing the making of all of them: loneanimator.blogspot.se/2017/12/feather-of-owlbear-d-d-fan-film.html
is that a caodemon from doom???
Nope, they're all monsters stolen from the original D & D Monster Manual.
What the hell is a vortex beard? 🤨
All the weird stuff on his list are people on TH-cam :)
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Whoever did the audio mixing on this needs fired.