Trespasser
This story is extremely important to me, because when I started developing it, I was at a creative low. That spark that fuels you to create, to draw, to write, it had almost gone out entirely.
I had recently graduated from animation school, and my thesis film was a complete dissaster. Nothing had gonet the way I wanted, the passion for the project was completely dead, I didn't care about anyhting, I just wanted it done and present it to the judges and never look back.
After graduating, I started a job at my old internship. It was fine, but I felt the constant restraints and restriction stiffling my creativity. The apathy I felt after my graduation grew ever larger. It really started to bother me, that I had lost that spark, that joy of creation and creativity. So I started to look back tothe last time I felt pride in what I had created. And so I returned to me Bachelor's thesis film, the animated short Trespasser.
Slowly but surely I started to build on that world, add new characters and flesh out a grander story. But it wouldn't be until a year later, when the studio I was working for went bankrupt, that I really started to take the project more serious. At first I aimed to build a story bible and shop around for studio's and/or producers to develop it into an animated series of my own. But due to lack of experience and fear of having to make too many compromises, I decided on the next best thing, I was going to turn it into a comic series. The spark was back.
Not shortly after that, covid happened. Now, Trespasser became the thing that kept me sane in a time of lockdowns and immense uncertainty. Even now, post-covid, it is what makes the drudgery of every day live feel bareable.
So yeah, Trespasser is very important to me haha.
