Each of these started as a pencil drawing and ended as a few seconds of video. The drawing came first on purpose. It’s a slower way to work than writing a description, and it settles things a description can’t — where the light is, how much of the figure you actually see, which way the head is turned, what’s cropped out of frame.
By the time a drawing is finished, most of the decisions are already made. The film has less freedom than it looks like it has, and that’s the point. What I’m watching for afterwards isn’t whether the video is impressive; it’s whether it agrees with the drawing.
Kshyv and I made eight. He goes toward devotion and mythology, I go toward light and fire and elemental force, and we kept landing on the same kind of image anyway. None of the films resolve — each one runs a few seconds and stops right where it would have paid off. That part I did keep from the drawings, which don’t resolve either. A pencil sketch is always a thing caught partway.