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I'm not able to hear audio on my DVD
This seems to be a pretty rare phenomenon and mostly associated with older DVD players. Try playing your DVD on a newer player. If you still can't hear any audio, please contact us.
The images seem very "flickery". Is this supposed to be happening?
The "jitter" seems to be simply because the artwork is so high contrast that movement causes "ringing" in the video. I minimized it as much as possible, but there's still that subtle bit. As an experiment, I digitally colored a more egregious panel and did the same pan across it and *voila* no jitter. Unfortunately, that would have required that we color the entire movie, something that would have made it tremendously more expensive (and way beyond our newbie skills).
The music seems louder than the dialogue. Is that a problem with some kind of setting on my end?
Alas, I wish it were. We've been going nuts about it because there seems to be very little actual connection between what we mix and what eventually comes out on the DVD. It was very distressing and frustrating and no one I know of has claimed to have encountered the same thing. For Innsmouth Legacy, we're revamping the whole recording setup, in hopes of avoiding this problem. I will very likely be remixing the audio of Dream-Quest, as ugly a possibility as that seems to me. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was, among other things, a huge learning lab and we learned tremendous amounts of things, which we've already applied to new projects and will apply even more effectively to future projects!
How can I get a copy on VHS?
There are a few people out there who don't have or don't want a DVD player yet. That's totally okay by us! We have a small number of VHS copies available. Just hop on over to our Order Form and order a copy today. You knew that was coming, didn't you?
How can I get the DVD?
You are soooo in luck! We have DVDs available right now! Just hop on over to our Order Form and order a copy today.
Will there be a soundtrack released?
Cyoakha has already released a soundtrack and you can find it at her website!
Are you still on schedule?
In short, yes (insert note of panic, however). But we are so in need of Photoshop and animation help, it's just ridiculous. I hurl my tender body against the jagged black basalt of this project every night when I get home from work. I have heard of "a life", and that other people have such a thing...
How the heck do you pronounce "Nyarlathotep", "Zoog", "Kadath", etc.?
Everybody seems to pronounce "Nyarlathotep" differently. For our production, we're pronouncing it as a four-syllable word: nyar (blurs together as a single syllable) let (pronounced the same as "vet") ho (pronounced the same as "go") tep (pronounced the same as "hep"). We emphasize the ho, as we interpreted instructions from our resident Egyptologist on pronouncing the "hotep" string. When I say it in my mind, the first half rhymes with "varlet".
"Zoog" is a no-brainer. Pronounce the "oo" the same way you would pronounce it in "tool", "fool", "school", etc. I pronounce "Kadath" to rhyme with "a bath".
Where are you going to show this? Where can we see it? Will it be on the web?
One of the reasons I've set the post-production deadline to such an insane date is that I'm targeting the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival October 2003. I have no idea if it'll be accepted, but I'm hoping. Afterwards, we'll try and get it into every single film festival we can, 'cause we want people to enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it. We also intend to sell copies online, probably in VHS and DVD format.
Why do this in the first place?
Of all of Lovecraft's work, I think Dream-Quest has always been my favorite. It's hard to say, of course, I enjoy everything I've read so far, but this book's always been the one I wanted to see. It's beautiful, terrifying, awesome, horrible, ecstatic, tremendous, and, well, everything else. It was around before fantasy was transformed into a Tolkienesque land of fur-foots and wizards. Randolph Carter is just a man. He can't cast spells and he can't hide in shadows and he can't fly. I still hope to someday make a live-action (or computer-generated) adaptation of the story, but for now, I'm happy creating this weird-ass multimedia version. And more importantly, I'm having a helluva great time doing it!
Why does the animation seem different for different pieces?
Two reasons, really. First, this is a distributed animation project, with all volunteers. That means that the people who can do fancier animation are going to do fancier animation and leave us muddies behind. Some pieces are simple to animate, some more complicated. Some people do only separations, some do entire animation sequences. The second reason is that as each of us works, we learn new things and figure out how to solve problems and keep 'em solved. So each of us working on the movie learns and grows and adds their own lessons to it, too. I look at things I animated at the beginning of the movie (we're pretty much moving sequentially through the timeline while animating) and compare them to whatever I did last night and I'm almost embarrassed. Well, almost, but not enough to redo it. Otherwise, I would never get this movie done! After the animation is complete, I'll go through and try to pick up the more egregious things and make 'em look better, if I can.
Is it going to be all in B&W?
The current plan has the movie being in B&W, although color will occasionally be used for subtle (and not-so-subtle) effects.
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