Sometimes for me the world can feel like a jumbled puzzle of animated parts with a piece missing. That sense of “missing-ness” creates a hollow ache, a feeling of incompleteness. The hope is that when I find that lost fragment, however long it takes, it will complete the puzzle and change what was a missing piece into peace and the hole into whole again.

Technical notes: Primary animation done in Blender 3.6. Reallusion Character Creator 3 was used for the avatar. The idle motion file is from Mixamo. The tear was added in Adobe After Effects and the puzzle effect and editing done in Adobe Premiere Pro. Special thanks to the excellent YouTube tutorials by Never Ending Flight on how to create the puzzle effect and MJake on how to create the tear. Music from Artlist.