The artwork itself (entirely black and white) is a mixture of cartoonish and semi-realistic (I was actually familiar with the artist's renditions of various Lovecraftian tales before I ever watched this) and depends a lot on chiaroscuro and shading effects. It would be disingenuous to pretend that's not a fairly low bar, even in the early 2000s. There's no way around these facts, and the result is exactly what you'd expect. There's some animation of the most basic sort (wavy lines representing water, for instance, were animated in a very simple fashion, or stylized eyes blinking) but nothing along the lines of what modern animation programs can do on a basic laptop. This is a movie made on a shoe-string budget, using comic panels with the occasionally moving figure done in straight-up stop-motion fashion. Let's get the obvious out of the way first.
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