Will-O-The-Wisp 

Gorgeous animation to a gorgeous poem, love the careful attention to make sure the puppet exactly matches the description!

Superb little film, and very atmospheric use of the ambient soundscape. I wouldn't be surprised if Will-O-The-Wisp sometimes crosses paths with The Changeling! Would love to see more of both these characters!

The ending gave me chills. Good job.

Saw the title and was immediately excited to see your take on an ethereal creature

Only one remark, or maybe suggestion on the future, if I may. Face is to tense. Face of deceased, even if person died in fear, is relaxed, moth is open, but lower jaw is meek, slightly retracted back (if body is laying like that), it's a battle, if you will, between weight of a jaw and how far jaw muscles allow it to go. Don't show teeth, when you go face muscles relax long before they'll harden. Less is more when portraying death. Uncanny, motionless stare. It's not about how extreme you make your face - end of life is scary on it's own, how environment interacts with body, and how it don't respond like an alive person would. Pose here is too unnatural, like if he stand in water looking up and screaming at sky. Tilting and lowering head would help an illusion. Here's where environment would come to play, water slowly exiting mouth, algae marks, maybe few strings of aquatic weeds across face, like metaphoric shackles holding him in place.

Captured quickly by this one, it did a lot with subtile footfalls and swamp sounds and a nice "twist" ending appropriate for a will-o-the-wisp. Listening to the poem, I though this must be someone in Lovecraft's circle, but I have not heard of Cawien who far predates them. Huh; his waste land inspired Elliot's! Does his verse often get into the beloved _weird?_

Most of the video: "This is just an odd little dude who flys". The end of the video: "Genuine forest demon."

This was very creepy. One of your best.

An excellent film to start the new year

Love it. As with all your work, love it!

The Will-O-The-Wisp reminds me a lot of the Nokken of Norse folklore. I wonder if they have some common origin.

Great work as always!

If the forest could talk ,,,oh the stories they could tell ,,,great piece brother

Not saying this as an insult. But this was the grossest poem I've ever listened to. If that was the intent, you aced it!

Yikes! Was not expecting that ending but you killed it!

Beautiful work!

My brother could probably beat this guy in a fight.

I'm not familiar with this poem -- now I've got something to look up!

As soon as I saw this one I clicked on it. It's amazing, like all of your stop-motion work.

Loved this!! Thank you! :)

why dose he look like a blue dooby from lord of the rings\

Thank you for this, Maestro! Atmospheric, and a unique Will O' The Wisp. Beautifully realized, it is a lovely tribute to "The Keats Of Kentucky", the underrated Madison Julius Cawein. Were it not for the changing taste in styles of poetry, his poems such as "Wasteland", "A Dream Shape" , " The Vampire", and many others might be known to readers today.

That was AMAZING !! 👍👍

This was really good!

A spooky little guy.

Great work as always !

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amazing work as usual, I was wondering if you've ever heard the poems and stories of Edward Gory? I think you could bring those spooky stories to life with your beautiful stop motion

Excellent Movie? I'm always excited when You release a new video. You have a great voice, by the way

Excellent.

excellent!

Love it!

Superb!

Eerie!

will-o-the-wisp use to be a human ? i didnt know that

Excellent!

Great!

It's NOT Just The Monster This Time! -But Equal Credit To The Words, Their Reading, And The Atmosphere Of The Video Images Working, Hand-In-Glove, With The Creature! -There HAS To Be A Special Award To Acknowledge THIS Level Of Craftsmanship As Much As There Is An Oscar, Emmy, Tony OR Grammy! -You, As A Recipient, Would Be In Good Company!

Your material is far more interesting than anything Hollywood has ever produced in years. You need to get into big movies, I love your content. Your HP Lovecraft work is second to none.

Mavis Cruet

Amazing and spooky. Great job

How lucky to catch a newly posted video. First I wanted to say that your work is not only incredible to me, I became addicted to your content to the point that I started dreaming and my ADHD made me hyper focus on it. I was so obsessed that I wrote the best short story of my life inspired by your work. So thank you very much for everything.

This was haunting and enchanting at the same time, it was like a spell was cast on me while I watched it.