Untitled Stairway II ("in spite of itself")

Another stairway in the void. One of my bigger projects, I wanted to show decay over time, as if the space is being gradually forgotten, unseen and out of mind.

Made using blender's animation system to maintain 4 frames set at unique points in time.

Through graphite works like this, I want to convey a sense of the dusty, quiet other-worlds. The little stories they express are for the viewer to imagine, their dreamlike spaces are for the viewer to wander.
I made use of heavy compositing with multiple extra rendering passes and a complex tree of maths and effects in order to produce the sketchy, graphite look.