I've always been drawn to animation — the grueling hours, the obsessive detail, the way you can feel the maker in every frame. Tim Burton is someone I've admired for exactly that reason. I would never claim to replicate what those artists do, and I don't want to disrespect that craft.
What I can say is that animation captures something a still image sometimes can't — a feeling, a moment, a quality of aliveness. My paintings are hand-painted originals; the hours are real, the decisions are mine. But I've found that moving them — using AI as a tool the way I might use any other — lets something through that the still work holds back.
These are not AI-generated images. They are paintings, brought into motion.