On 24 May 1993, Eric Muss-Barnes, founder of WyndFeather : Arts & Phantasm, began producing, directing and editing video projects as a hobby. Starting with music videos, for bands in Cleveland, Ohio, he moved on to doing everything from live concerts to corporate presentations for companies such as Huntington Banks. When the hobby grew into a business, Eric called it "Dreamdancer Motion Pictures."

Four years later, in January of 1997, Eric self-published his first novel, entitled, "The Gothic Rainbow".

Obviously, a "motion picture" studio does not publish books. Hence, Eric required a name for a publishing company and "Dubh Sith Ink" was born.

Since he was now doing projects under two different names, the idea to have a single "umbrella" name came about. Something that could encompass all creative projects that he might undertake. The name "Windfeather" originated on 15 June 1985 when Eric Muss-Barnes was just 14 years old - "Windfeather" was the name of a Dungeons & Dragons character he invented that day.

After doing Dreamdancer for a few years, he thought of changing the spelling to "Dreamdanser" because "danser" is a French spelling of the word and it sounded more exotic to him. But, considering that the name was somewhat established, the kept "Dreamdancer" and instead changed "Windfeather" to "WyndFeather."

The "Arts & Phantasm" portion of the name was inspired by "Light & Magic" in the name "Industrial Light & Magic", the world-reknown special effects company. The phrase "Arts & Phantasm" specifically conjures images of art and creativity, yet remains ambiguious enough that it can include any possible artform.

So, WyndFeather : Arts & Phantasm was born, out of desiring a name which encompassed creative projects in any medium - be it video, film, music, photography and digital art, publishing or anything else - invented as a parent company over Dubh Sith Ink, Dreamdancer Motion Pictures, and any names yet to be...