It
has been many years since I first wanted to make an animated film
from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann." (My
earliest notes seem to be from the year 2009.) There are several
reasons for my attraction to this short story. First of all, it is
H.P. Lovecraft! He is a giant of genre literature, and his stories
have been loved by people all over the world for almost a hundred
years. (I don't want to get too much into the details of Lovecraft's
corpus, so I'll leave it at that.)
Another
key reason that I wanted to animate this work is it's relation to
music. I love music, and have worked in music since childhood, so the
role of music in this story is also important to me.
More
practical reasons that I have for feeling like this was a perfect
work for me are more practical in nature. There are really only two
characters in the story. That is great for an unskilled animator.
(Actually, there are three characters, but I decided to not utilize
the landlord character for my animation.) Another practical reason
for animating this story is the limited sets that were necessary. My
first animation had one set, my second animation had one and a half
sets, and my third animation had two sets. This animation was either
going to have three or four sets (it took me a while to to decide),
so that would be an improvement from previous works.
Also,
there is little to no dialogue in the story, which would force me to
tell the story nearly completely visually, which I hadn't previously
done on my other animations. This lack of dialogue is coupled with
the fact that this is a horror story, and I liked the challenge of
telling a horror story.
The
last reason behind wanting to animate "The Music of Erich Zann"
is that the story is short. So no matter how out-of-hand the scope
would get, I would never get too far out so that it would never get
complete (like dreams of a feature-length animated film might get).
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