Richard Svensson
Directing
Biography
Richard Svensson, also known as The Lone Animator, is a Swedish stop-motion artist born in 1974. He creates independent short films featuring monsters, fantasy, and weird fiction, often inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. Combining sculpture, illustration, and practical effects, he shares his work on YouTube and other platforms, keeping the art of handcrafted stop-motion alive.
Known For
A hungry tumor goes on a rampage and destroys everything in its path!
Toomie: The Hungry Tumor
The Mewlips are nasty creatures that hobbit parents scare their children with, so the kids don't wander off with foolish ideas of adventure.
The Mewlips
A man wakes up in a very strange place.
Nightgaunts
This creature feature tells the story of a an old grumpy man (the hermit) on revenge, a pack of hunters and a rugby gorilla mascot running for his life, with one thing in common: an alien being that has crashed to earth, eating anyone in its path. Now it's up to the heroes to stop this menacing creature at all cost.
Hermit: Monster Killer
The poem "Jabberwocky" with narration in Swedish. All creatures are stop motion animated.
Jabberwocky
An encounter between a sea monster and a fisherman results in a sort-of discussion about fear.
Umibozu!
In 1908 Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, a university professor, suffers a sudden mental breakdown during a class. In 1913 he seems to recover but has no memory of the last five years. He sets out to discover what happened.
The Shadow Out of Time
Based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Memory
Short film dealing with the monstrous character "Brown Jenkin" from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Dreams in the Witch House".
Concerning Brown Jenkin
Mini-space epic starring two headstrong young heroines, taking on the mechanical scum of the galaxy.
Save Prince Plutonium
A stroll in the woods turns into quite an adventure for a little elf.
Goblin Wood
A little mood piece based on the poem by Alfred Tennyson.
The Kraken
"Living Night", also known as "A Livermere Poem", was written by English scholar and ghost story writer Montague Rhodes James.
Living Night
Short film made from British children's book writer Colin West's nonsense poem.
The Blunderblat!
A little mythological tale of the meaning of life, quite a bit inspired by the Dynamation epics of animator Ray Harryhausen.
The King Who Sought Immortality
The Ghooric Zone is a mystical place so weird that visiting it could cause madness.
Report From the Ghooric Zone
Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple Atal.
The Other Gods
"The Lovecraft Alphabet" presents blasphemous horrors through stop-motion animation. Each letter introduces a monstrous creation from H.P. Lovecraft's works. Enjoy a darkly comedic journey through the alphabet of cosmic dread.