Tammy, these are the very first sketches of how someone will arrive in INFINIA and move through it: the opening, the first welcome, and the way the water and the moon carry a person from one side to the other. They are early, rough, and nowhere near their full potential yet. We wanted you to see them while they are still soft enough to shape, because your eye for how something feels is exactly what they need.
Each sketch plays on a loop.Soft light gathers, and the infinity mark glows into view. It settles up into the hub, where the water is already moving underneath. The very first time, a quiet welcome rises over the night sky: “You don’t have to have it figured out.”
A shorter hello for someone who already knows the way. The mark appears, finds its place, and the hub is alive and waiting: the water moving, the stars gently twinkling.
A touch on the water sends out ripples. You sink gently down through the green, and the caves open ahead of you, with a little light drifting out to meet you. It should feel like being welcomed in.
A touch on the moon, and its purple halo glows brighter. The moon swells until it fills everything, the stars stream past, and the Spheres are born out of its light. It should feel like the sky opening.
The caves close to a single point, and you rise back up through the water. The hub comes slowly into focus with one soft ripple, like coming home.
These are simple moving sketches, not a finished animation, and they need your eye to become what they are meant to be. How should arriving in INFINIA feel? What would you change, add or soften? We would especially love your thoughts on the moment someone goes down into Reflection and the caves open, because that is where your Realms begin and you know that world better than anyone.
Share it in whatever way flows for you: a voice memo, a few words, a picture, or a sketch of your own, as a reply to the email this came with. Your ideas will shape the next version.
With love, Josh and Claude