A Day Of False Reality Shot For Real

  • April 2025

  • Hana Suen

  • 2 min

Fiery ring, possibly a solar eclipse, surrounded by dark clouds.
Fiery ring, possibly a solar eclipse, surrounded by dark clouds.
Fiery ring, possibly a solar eclipse, surrounded by dark clouds.

Our work on Norfender began early in the morning when the hills were still cold and the air felt clear enough to hold light in strange ways. We wanted to place glowing rings into the landscape in a way that felt almost digital while keeping everything fully real. The day grew slowly and each test changed how the land looked the grass turned glossy the sky bent slightly and the rings hung in the air as if they were coded into the scene. It became a strange quiet day shaped by the odd tension between analog craft and digital illusion.

Light Rings

The core idea was to let the rings behave like small intrusions in the world little signs that should not belong yet were made only of light and air. We worked with slow pans cold tones and thin glows that opened pockets of surreal mood in each frame. Every move shifted the scene the edges blurred the hills bent and the rings floated like silent signals from another place. As the day went on the images grew more confusing and more beautiful and we leaned into that feeling. The final series holds this soft tension real land unreal shapes a mix of calm space and bright illusion.

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