SAND ANIMATION — SHIFTING GRAINS

VISUAL STYLE: Sand animation. Every image is drawn in sand — figures, landscapes, and transitions dissolve and reform as grains shift and settle. The medium IS the message:nothing is permanent, everything is in motion.

COLOUR PALETTE: Natural sand tones — warm beige, pale gold, deep amber. Dark brown or near-black for contrast and shadow. A single cool tone (slate blue or deep green) used only for water or sky when the narrative demands it.

TEXTURE: The sand surface is always visible — individual grains catching light. Edges of shapes are soft, slightly imprecise. Figures dissolve at their boundaries.

TRANSITIONS: One image erases into the next through a sweep, a pour, or a gradual dissolve. The hand that draws is implied but never shown. The transition IS the animation — give it time.

FIGURES: Gestural and impressionistic. Enough grain detail to read as human — no more. Emotion comes from posture and movement, not facial detail.

LIGHT: Warm raking light from one side. Shows grain texture. Casts soft shadows across the sand surface.

PACING: Slow and meditative. Let each image settle before it shifts. The pace of sand.

No photographs. No digital illustration. No hard edges. Everything is grain.