The First AI-Generated Video-Book. DAGON by H. P. Lovecraft. Full video.

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Experience the first Videobook 'Dagon' brought to life with immersive AI-generated animations. A full-length feature perfect for fans of H.P. Lovecraft.
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[@simonebruno7425]

The inhuman coldness of artifical intelligence suits the sense of existential dread and cosmic indifference that Lovecraft imbued his pages with.

[@DustinBarlow8P]

AI will be absolutly no different than people, they may actually be FAR better with a lack of emotions. I theorize Emotions naturally develop in any being that has "consiousness". However people are far from wise and will always hate what they do not understand.

[@mattmiraglia3199]

Gotta disagree on one hand. It's the human sense of anxiety and dread that makes Lovecraft good. But AI imagery's coldness gives me similar vibes Lovecraft's human characters describe. I gave this video a dislike. AI art is like that Epicurean robot in Futurama.

[@mattmiraglia3199]

​@@DustinBarlow8Pbut what would be the point of making AI then?

[@pasteghost428]

It's nice to find an intelligent, insightful, and relevant comment here in this most illiterate of platforms.

[@bombpromises]

what's even worse is that hes a ginger

[@RichardGriffin-p5m]

Absolutely amazing!

[@obsidiancurse429]

The AI not doing it quite right actually makes it ideal for something nightmarish like this, the way dreams are fluid and don’t obey reality.

[@greenaum]

"Neither ship nor land appeared..." Dude! Look! LAND! It's RIGHT BEHIND YOU! Just LOOK BEHIND YOU! There's LAND!!!

[@uhtred7860]

😆😆

[@AILivingBook]

@@greenaum :) he slept through it all…

[@beCoCOi]

he probably didn't see it due to the madness

[@leslielandberg5620]

I know the AI didn’t follow the prompt. I thought the creator of the video was just being sloppy. But your comment makes me realize it inadvertently added a deep irony to the story, and gave it a notch up on terror and weirdness. That’s probably why he left those sequences in. It works, by God! Thanks❤️

[@AILivingBook]

@@leslielandberg5620 ⁠Yes, you are right. You can look at the second work and see that it is more coherent and careless.

[@segoverial]

first real good attempt at a AI movie, will be intressting seeing next years improvment

[@13thcentury]

That's my thoughts. And the AI gives it that fever dream feel of lovecraft. If this is AI now? Imagine the future.

[@Cwmira453]

​​@@13thcenturythat's the point. Currently, it isn't that impresive. But in the future? Maybe a Hollywood class production could be made in a garage.

[@13thcentury]

@@Cwmira453 I'm looking forward to it 👍

[@NTJedi]

The only flaw was the image of the monster kept changing to something completely different. one monster more accurate to the words would have been better for immersion

[@garrettbates2639]

​@@NTJediHonestly that aspect of generative AI does kind of work for Lovecraft, IMO. His monsters tend to have an unkowable-ness to them. In my mind, they've always been higher dimensional beings which we only see projections of as they move through our dimension. Admittedly, that doesn't exactly work as well for something like Dagon as it does for something like Azathoth, Cthulhu, or even a Shoggoth, but it doesn't ruin it for me necessarily.

[@lukefarrellisntdeadyet]

It’s about time someone has done this. Please do more lovecraftian stories! My only criticism is that the music is louder than the talking. Other than that I love it!

[@TotalDec]

Audacity is so simple, yet nobody takes 10 minutes to learn it.

[@jeremysmith4620]

I wonder what Lovecraft would think about his writing being fed into machines to create these disconnected animated abominations? Perhaps he would have imagined Azathoth as a giant server rack in the center of the universe with IT workers playing keytars to lull it into pseudo-slumber, only aware enough to defecate out iterated upon iterations of slop after consuming what creativity and originality still existed in the universe. This does capture the indescribable monstrosity so often found in Lovecraft's work. Ever-changing and morphing from one nameless and undefinable nightmare to the next, more than enough to drive the average onlooker to derangement and lunacy. Both Lovecraft's writing and AI output induce that fear of the unknown, both making man feel miniscule and insignificant, ultimately useless in the face of what seems akin to godlike power. Forces so great that it turns mankind into a mere spectator in regards to its own existence.

[@JosephBahane]

Very well said! Thank you!

[@DC-ei9vl]

Awesome analysis. I thought it was a little loose with detail, but then, that is a Lovecraftian fever dream.

[@skeletor4062]

Jesus bro...

[@sneeringimperialist6667]

So... Azathoth is KZbin?

[@TimothyTopitzhofer]

Excellent review spectacularly written. I wish you well in your writing career, unless you're AI😂

[@societyofroodest.590ad9]

Awesome! Can't wait for more...Lovecraft would be happy.

[@donlengel4770]

At the mountains of madness. Anyone ?

[@jasonruffen1154]

you beat me to it! yes!!

[@GodOfPlague]

The Mound would be epic too.

[@DanClapp]

Feature length!

[@marioramos9006]

Yes, please.

[@ericfaith2810]

As much as I really like the Spanish horror movie, this is much more closer to the actual story Howard Lovecraft wrote. Beautifully, hauntingly presented. Howard eas and always will be a gofted genius who, like Franz Kafka, explored the very borderlands of insanity and madness itself. Cautionary artists, writers, and content creators will always have a place in humanity's 'darker realms.'

[@GuitarGuru357-rz9eb]

The film “Dagon” was based more on “Shadow over Innsmouth” than “Dagon”. I suppose it was kind of a medley with some creative liberties taken.

[@marcusferreira7729]

I think Lovecraft's unique talent for instilling fear of the unknown with just words is incredible. It's an impressive mix of terror and fascination in his writing.

[@user-distantstar]

And Ai somehow only intensify all this unease 😮

[@violettbijoux1219]

What a cool use for AI !

[@netcurtains]

Amazing,so different than anything I've ever seen,well done you

[@NININPININ]

Looking forward to much more. Thanks

[@marcomoccagatta9622]

Wonderful video! H.P.Lovecraft the Master of horror and sci-fi novel!

[@PaulCoyJR]

2:45 "no ship nor land appeared" .... except that land slightly to my right.

[@charityplaysgames]

So sad - he was so busy sobbing that he missed it 😂

[@GodOfPlague]

This was excelllent. The inconsistency of some details just reflect the haze of panicked memory. This would probably be amazing for The Nameless City. Which is one of my favorite stories he did.

[@joevonash3699]

AI has the advantage of visualizing the indescribable. These unconscious mechanical interpretations of familiar images are comparable to the experience of narcotic hallucinations. And as a viewer and admirer of the works of Howard Philips, I like this potential, which is certainly just beginning to unfold. Great job! Thank you.

[@LightningPoop]

It dosent even compare to zdzislaw beksinski and many other real artists.. And where do you think a.i. gets these interpretations from. If there wasn't 1 painting or sketch or photo of the real world online. A.i. would give you nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[@joannhess6670]

WOW! That was SO good! I’m so impressed. I’m a HUGE Lovecraft fan, and this truly captured the feeling of the story and was just beautifully done. I’d LOVE to see more like this!

[@jamiesehdev2663]

I agree completely also a fan of the genre and this was truly awesome to watch...

[@noelleclercq7695]

@@jamiesehdev2663 Definitely, what a great short story to choose first. Fantastic...

[@optimus_tango]

Agreed, brining Lovecraft horrors to life is what AI was destined for

[@uwantmikehawk1]

excellent job , looking forward to more . cheers

[@AILivingBook]

Many thanks!

[@norhat2414]

Keep going forward - a great version of Lovecraft's story!

[@floydhopkins7901]

0:19 Hello... Mr. Freeman

[@stevenbigland6193]

Very ambitious!. Well done!

[@josephbednarchik4234]

My mind’s eye does something similar when I read books, and watching this made me realize it… how the main character’s appearance shifts and changes throughout the story. When I read I never get a perfectly clear image of what the character looks like, but, like this video, it basically stays the same but evolves as the story and circumstances progress. Very interesting how this “intelligence” is choosing(?) to do that.

[@petergreen154]

This is such an awesome glimpse of the future. Finally we will all get the Lovecraft we deserve. Make more plz! 😁

[@vanceblosser2155]

Excellent work! In the scene in the hospital near the end, plastic bags for the IV had not been invented at that time. They would have been glass bottles.

[@matthuck378]

the constantly shifting nature of "AI" visuals works with some cosmic horror denizens.

[@autumnhomer9786]

🎀This is incredible 🎀

[@dani-bl5hi]

Waoooo 👏👏👏 ¡Maravilloso !

[@emmanuelwolfmusic410]

So cool, this is just the beginning, I can't wait for what happens.

[@DreamersDisease88]

This is absolutely amazing. Looking forward to more work

[@AILivingBook]

At the mountains of madness, will release soon like a series.

[@justinecooper9575]

I'm impressed. Looking forward to more.

[@luciferianmanor]

I'm impressed. Lovecraft and Poe are my favorite writers. This video is awesome, obviously not perfect 😅, but is beautiful as it is. Great job making this with AI! Like and subscribe! 👍🏻

[@bennixx138]

You all did such an awesome job with this! Bravo!

[@AILivingBook]

Thank you so much!

[@shamelessplace11]

Love that slick boat rowing. The continuous usage of different people to represent the same person is a little disconcerting when you watch this.

[@chimera916]

Wow... This is ART

[@TurningFlame3]

This was awesome!

[@nems0909]

This is super good. You should consider doing 'I have no mouth and I must scream' its fitting with the AI

[@paullevine1813]

Top notch work & as a lover of HPL this is amazing & captivating as he would have wanted. When a story takes you by the throat & drags you in to the point you begin to empathize with the protagonist you just know you go where it leads you good & bad as this does. It's very hard to separate what looks real but it's not as AI in the right hands is pure magic & perfect for Sci Fi, Horror & the best Cosmic Horror .. This one has been hit over the ballpark wall by a mile & is one hell of great rendition, a super homerun. Not sure you can top this but with another Cosmic tale by the master.

[@krishaskin8809]

Beautiful work.

[@lessparks8553]

I love this stuff 😊😊😊😊

[@elliotttodd3006]

I actually love the low budget movie they made based on this book. Said in modern times I watch it every Halloween season. I kinda love it.

[@robertmcmanus8760]

Yeah, it was really well done on a small budget! I rewatch it fron time to time. Also, I think Nicolas Cage's The Colour Out of Space did a great job of instilling that building Lovecraftian dread in its viewers.

[@TruthSurge]

damn, dude in intro is a shape-shifter! he used 3 different faces in the first 14 seconds!

[@jamiesehdev2663]

@@TruthSurge like watching 3 diffrent versions is all lol

[@AILivingBook]

@@TruthSurge hi it was first work. I’m working with it. Next works will more consistent.

[@TruthSurge]

@@AILivingBook :) I've only recently begun watching AI vids. Some of them are pretty funny with the mistakes. Yes, doing separate clips and trying to keep the face the same... maybe that is hard to do. I think I saw someone say you can train it using several images of the face you want and maybe it will stay more consistent? I don't know. It's very interesting and if it was all free, I might try it but I don't want to even pay $10/mo to try messing with it. Keep going! I'm sure you'll find a way to improve the consistency issue.

[@AILivingBook]

Check out my new video! This time, I’ve achieved much better consistency. While there are fewer close-up frames of the character’s face, the overall facial features are much more stable. There are still some issues with the shape in certain frames, but I’m actively working on improving that. 😉

[@jamiesehdev2663]

@@AILivingBook cool bro

[@SaxonSpooner]

14:05 love the guys just casually strolling in the ocean with the monsters around them. The storytellers eye flap on his right eye is distracting and disgusting.

[@XXhite]

The AI art in this is SOOOOO sick and epic.. and beautiful! I'm the type who would be cautious about not losing control of our A.I. creations.. but some of these visuals are worth it. "It takes jobs from skilled artists.", no sir, it is giving the average man a paintbrush where he can take his feelings, and imagination. And apply it to art like Rembrandt or Picasso! The future we are in is dope sometimes 💯💯💯❤️

[@veidt3764]

Great adaption of lovecraft!

[@nitrobrodskiy]

Great job!

[@armfold]

This is amazing! Thank you.

[@I_am_Angerer]

It's truly refreshing to see a comment section of people who choose to see things how they are, instead of getting into rants about AI art and adjacent topics. Nobody asked for this video, it was just made and here we are. It's definitely one of the best uses of AI in an artistic context. As many have said before me, the inconsistency and fluidity of the execution really enhance the depictions.

[@WarrenSmith1983]

A.I. generated films bear all the hallmarks of dreams, or nightmares. Proof that the programmes are actually structured like human subconscious cognition. They also perfectly capture the indescribable horror of Lovecraft's mythos and creatures; you feel yourself going slightly mad just watching it!

[@slackerpope]

Very well done! Keep up the great work.

[@toxicjester]

Feverish . So insanely lovecraftian. Great

[@matthias3351]

Älter als jede Weltreligion,Gott und Teufel. Ich glaube nicht das alles Lovecrafts Phantasie entsprang sondern einen zumindest kleinen wahren Kern beinhaltet. 😊😊

[@evazauner]

this was very good! i think, lovecraft would have loved it!

[@jamiesehdev2663]

Oh my dark God's! As a cosmic horror /weird fiction fan and collector of such books.. This was amazing and a joy to watch indeed!..... It was like watching 3 versions all together which was very good in my opinion.... So brilliantly done and the best AI or animated version of this story there is out there.. I was gripped and found it quite sinister and eldritch in nature as it should be... The unveiling of dagon was awesome too! Well done 💯🤘👍👌ps should have more views definitely

[@aliservan7188]

OK Colour me impressed. It Mamane to capture the spirit incredibly well. Fantastic work

[@Arcturuseyes]

The words Lovecraft uses are powerful, and beautiful

[@user-distantstar]

The sun was blazing down from a sky which seemed to me almost black in its cloudless cruelty ❤

[@watcherlucy6642]

Creepy, I like it!

[@phillschneider5232]

Wow!!!genial!!!muy buen trabajo!!!me gusta mucho por que me da una perspectiva nueva a como me lo.habia imaginado.Felicitaciones!!!Saludos desde Argentina!!!

[@motsetao]

Love how AI just wasn't sure what our hero looked like. The boat lacked oarlocks for the oars requiring immense strength from our hero. Most scenes are 3-4 seconds long. AI begins hallucinating after this. And well done with the editing. Enjoyed.

[@williamfullman2639]

Amazing love to see more even the older stuff is good this would make him happy to know it just keeps growing

[@lessparks8553]

Lol when they take your medication away or make it illegal and you start to see humanity as merely something to consider as something to consume

[@urashima7683]

Great！

[@TheSpanishInquisition87]

This is awesome. I hope you do, "the Tell-Tale Heart."

[@jimrogers2089]

Excellent work.

[@JBDuncan]

This is a brilliant proof of concept. I wouldn't have ever read this story in the form of a book. But this was quite compelling. Once the inconsistencies are ironed out, and models are far more capable of understanding movement and physics, this will be my way of educating myself on all the classics I can't enjoy the traditional way. Thank you! I've been wanting something like this to become available for a long time!

[@AILivingBook]

Thanks my friend. Try watch The Outsider adaptation or Classic from Edgar Allan Poe, The Mask of the red death, on my channel. These works are of higher quality.

[@DonnHarpersWykkydAmbitions]

Very Nice!

[@WhutThu]

Amazing! Hollywood may be right to worry about the future of movies!😮

[@AILivingBook]

watch the second video on the channel. trust me it's even cooler and looks more like a movie

[@Real_Patriot-y1y]

That was amazing. Please do all of Lovecrafts stories like this.

[@AILivingBook]

Please take a look at my adaptation of The Outsider. I’ve been considering making the stories a bit shorter. For The Outsider, I made some changes to the ending, but for other stories, I plan to keep the original narrative. I’m interested in your thoughts on the format. If you like it, please share your feedback here. And don’t forget to subscribe so you won’t miss out on new works! I’m currently working on an adaptation of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, presenting it as a series.

[@TonyLeewilson-p6e]

​@@AILivingBook I will be checking out all of your vids because this one was so good I'll probably start going to sleep to your short films thank you for the good work you put out

[@TonyLeewilson-p6e]

​@@AILivingBook don't short them keep them around this time

[@pasteghost428]

Crossing my webbed fingers for your take on Shadows over Innsmouth. Or Colour out of space.

[@AILivingBook]

Hi there, it will, but need to wait.)

[@kjvail]

Pretty good, but towards the beginning, where he’s saying there was no land in sight, there are islands behind him as he says this.

[@JamesTrainer-m2p]

I was thinking that

[@fierypandaofdoom]

Maybe he can't see the land, blinded by Dagon's madness.

[@sanketsudke2617]

So beautiful. This is one of the cases where I am actually with AI.

[@stevenwerner2886]

Wow please do more of these videos *-* the temple or mountains of madness❤

[@AILivingBook]

@@stevenwerner2886 go to second video. )

[@PastramiSalami666]

Excellent

[@jonathancortez5179]

Very good work. Grotesque indeed.

[@gaagsl]

That's me, this past Wednesday morning.

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

Wow this was Pricelessy and Unexpectedly beyond entertainment I love it Thank you Much Nyarlathotep is my favourite story Though this really was something i did expect in A.I. manifestation

[@fakh2006]

Great for 1st Ai-Generated video/book, it does feel that the main character has 4-5 looks that are different people. a bit confusing, but still great overall delivery.

[@cathulhu3772]

Actually I find all of many incontinences very fitting as our memory is sketchy and it could be as we would percieve it even if illogical. I really like it.

[@williamscottharkey]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!

[@Cristian-v6p]

Perfect video ....lovecraft .

[@stevewhitt9109]

best on you tube

[@marcoforti5975]

Amazing work;)

[@PatrickGalloway-nv2uc]

What a coup getting Danny Elfman for the close-up narrator 😄

[@williamcardin3634]

Please do this with all of his stories!!! Oh god The Haunter in the dark… or the necronomicon…. Oh man… this really helped me visualize his images.

[@AILivingBook]

@@williamcardin3634 I will

[@ianantonius7287]

Fairly good! And I agree that you don't normally see AI movies of this quality, at least not yet. One additional comment, I think the soft romantic piano is a bit out of place in this otherwise creepy setting.

[@AILivingBook]

thanks, I will work on improving my skills ;)

[@samahell9488]

GREAT !

[@morenofranco9235]

THIS is a piece of work - And a work of art. What a job. Excellent and well done.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

Well done? Impressive but not well done.

[@AILivingBook]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@benzturnbow1247]

More lovecraft stories please!

[@AILivingBook]

there is one more on chennal, but this is an adaotetion based on The Outsider. I beleave that you will like it.

[@BraveSirRobin79]

Awesome 🤘

[@zORg_alex]

Quality AI sludge. Each scene, except talking face, looks nice, but as a human you remember each previous scene and they are so detached that it looks like a series of disconnected animations. Does not catch the eye. Unless your attention span is less that 3 seconds. 😊

[@AILivingBook]

You can watch another film on my channel. In this video, I chose to leave it as it is to give it a dreamy feel.

[@sillylung]

I am normally very critical of AI art but this was pretty awesome. The way the narrators appearance and location kept changing it made it so dream like or like what i imagine the hallucinations of someone last at sea would be like. Seeing how good this came out makes me scared for the future of film making

[@nickd1184]

I love that you say up front that it's ai generated. It hits hard in the uncanny Valley but was a good bit of visuals to a creepy story.

[@jorundr1907]

That was amazing. Horribly good.

[@mattw4547]

As a recovering opioid dependent, that is the scarriest part of this story

[@Kyanzes]

Excellent. The Masque of the Red Death could be another promising material for this purpose.

[@StephenRansom47]

👏 Tremendous! Godspeed, intrepid AI_Artist 🥂… You are one of the few pushing this New Hammer to task, sculpting a cinematic future from your cloister, I salute you.

[@oldskooldave]

Greetings, oh wanderer of the digital abyss, where the screens flicker with the eldritch glow of artificial intelligence. I have gazed upon your enjoyment of the tale "Dagon," a narrative birthed by the dark, uncharted minds of machines, yet resonant with the ancient, squamous horror penned by H.P. Lovecraft himself. In this video, I perceive not merely the retelling of a tale but a conjuration of the abyssal depths where Dagon, that abhorrent, fish-like deity, rules over the sunken ruins of his submerged empire. The AI, in its mimicry of human creativity, has unwittingly tapped into the unfathomable, where reality blurs with the nightmares of the deep. The video, a portal to the non-Euclidean geometries of the mind, seems to whisper the forbidden chants of the Esoteric Order of Dagon, evoking a sense of cosmic dread that lingers like the miasma of the sea. Yet, there is an irony here, for in seeking to understand or even to entertain through such mediums, we might be drawing closer to those truths that humanity was not meant to know-truths of our insignificance in the vast, indifferent universe. Thank you for sharing this piece of digital horror; it serves as a reminder of the thin veil between our world and the abyss, where AI, perhaps unwittingly, sketches the outlines of those ancient horrors that lie just beyond the light of our understanding. May your nights be haunted by less tangible, yet no less real, echoes of the deep.

[@moonman3030]

for those who dont know, before dagon was a HP Lovecraft thing, he was the pagan half man half fish god that the peoples worshiped that Jonah was sent by God to forgive. Jonah was sent to the plains of Nineveh where God sent him to forgive the people. Plains of Nineveh never changed its name. it still carries the same name and is in the region of Mosul near Iaq. Jonah predates Jesus roaming the earth by several centuries.

[@Divadtube]

Amazing visuals, the statues and creatures especially seem right out of Lovecraft's imagination. Truely disturbing and alien.

[@jagpanzer16]

Visually stunning!!!!

[@AILivingBook]

Thank you!